CMS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Content Management System (CMS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 69 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing CMS 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.93% 0.69% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.86% 3.57% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £536 £420
25th Percentile - £553 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +27.78% -
75th Percentile - £591 £513
90th Percentile - £598 £550
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% +38.56%

All Application Platform Skills
Glasgow

CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 79 140 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.46% 19.20% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 83 66
10th Percentile £272 £262 £412
25th Percentile £313 £356 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £448 £528
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -15.07% +4.98%
75th Percentile £525 £544 £669
90th Percentile £699 £638 £700
Scotland median daily rate £443 £450 £520
% change year-on-year -1.56% -13.46% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.98 - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £15.42
75th Percentile £18.02 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.75 £22.23 £23.86
% change year-on-year +69.80% -6.82% +34.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

CMS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

CMS
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing CMS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing CMS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Drupal
1 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
1 1 (14.29%) Umbraco
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Axure RP
1 1 (14.29%) Balsamiq
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Content Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Ext JS
1 6 (85.71%) Hibernate
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) React
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
1 6 (85.71%) Multithreading
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Content Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
2 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle