CMS Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Content Management System (CMS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CMS 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 5.81% - 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 45.00% - 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £510
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £600 £459 £400
% change year-on-year +30.79% +14.69% +1.91%

All Application Platform Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 20 4 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 12.90% 4.00% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 7
10th Percentile £131 £274 £143
25th Percentile £132 £285 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £308 £200
Median % change year-on-year +58.54% +53.75% -37.50%
75th Percentile £625 £311 £618
90th Percentile - - £725
East Midlands median daily rate £364 £420 £385
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.79%
75th Percentile - - £43.25
90th Percentile - - £56.30
East Midlands median hourly rate - £13.52 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.62% +17.58%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

CMS job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

CMS
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing CMS

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Leicestershire

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing CMS

CMS
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester - 8 £600 - 2
Lutterworth - 1 - -
CMS
East Midlands

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 5 (55.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Headless CMS
1 5 (55.56%) Sitecore CMS
1 5 (55.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (11.11%) InDesign
1 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Kontent
2 5 (55.56%) Contentful
3 1 (11.11%) Vyond
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) CMS Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (55.56%) C# Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 5 (55.56%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) .NET
1 7 (77.78%) .NET Framework
1 7 (77.78%) AngularJS
1 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET
1 7 (77.78%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (77.78%) CSS
1 7 (77.78%) HTML
1 7 (77.78%) React
1 7 (77.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Full-Stack Development
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 6 (66.67%) User Experience
3 5 (55.56%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Mobile First
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) A/B Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
5 1 (11.11%) Content Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Customer Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
5 1 (11.11%) Product Vision
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Adobe
2 5 (55.56%) Sitecore
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft