Headless CMS Contract Job Trends in London

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Headless CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 339 382
Rank change year-on-year -44 +43 +113
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 11 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.069% 0.13% 0.054%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.69% 1.12% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 7
10th Percentile £393 £331 £338
25th Percentile £424 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £409 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -9.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £491 £528 £550
90th Percentile £550 £630 £673
England median daily rate £550 £409 £450
% change year-on-year +34.47% -9.11% -8.86%

All Application Platform Skills
London

Headless 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,584 1,605 2,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.97% 11.96% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 1,011 1,466
10th Percentile £350 £313 £263
25th Percentile £417 £402 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +4.84% -8.95%
75th Percentile £625 £653 £625
90th Percentile £730 £810 £765
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 33
10th Percentile £16.10 £23.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.36 £22.00
Median hourly rate £20.61 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.13% +16.67% +32.57%
75th Percentile £37.56 £41.18 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.31 £44.09 £48.17
England median hourly rate £27.21 £47.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -42.72% +86.27% +15.07%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Headless CMS job vacancy trend in London

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Headless CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Headless CMS

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in London over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Headless CMS in London

Headless CMS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Headless CMS within the London region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Central London -1 3 £550 +34.47% 4
Headless CMS
England

Headless CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (100.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Contentful
1 3 (27.27%) Contentstack
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) prismic.io
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
3 1 (9.09%) Commercetools
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (9.09%) Storyblok
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) CMS Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) React
2 4 (36.36%) Next.js
3 3 (27.27%) Fastify
3 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
3 3 (27.27%) Node.js
4 2 (18.18%) Framer.js
4 2 (18.18%) GreenSock GSAP
4 2 (18.18%) JWT
4 2 (18.18%) WebGL
5 1 (9.09%) MACH
5 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Acoustics
2 2 (18.18%) Animation
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) User Experience
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Front End Development
3 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) B2C
5 2 (18.18%) Content Management
5 2 (18.18%) Digital Innovation
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) TypeScript
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes