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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 75 75
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +9
Contract jobs citing CMS 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.70% 0.96% 0.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.81% 5.56% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% - -
Scotland median daily rate £188 £500 £290
% change year-on-year -62.44% +72.41% -22.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.70 - -

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 64 144 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.98% 17.33% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 80 92
10th Percentile £278 £300 £313
25th Percentile £317 £350 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £395 £453
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -12.80% -4.63%
75th Percentile £503 £509 £580
90th Percentile £564 £588 £626
Scotland median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £13.95 - -
25th Percentile £14.62 £25.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.75 £26.50 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year -40.57% +71.85% -16.65%
75th Percentile £16.89 £27.75 £34.59
90th Percentile £17.57 - £46.08
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £24.09 £17.00
% change year-on-year +123.12% +41.71% -6.13%

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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 2 (40.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Ext JS
1 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle