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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 322 375
Rank change year-on-year -93 +53 +91
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 8 28 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.042% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.44% 1.89% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 21 20
10th Percentile - - £411
25th Percentile - - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £409 £595
Median % change year-on-year +46.70% -31.26% +32.22%
75th Percentile - £575 £623
90th Percentile - £623 £623
England median daily rate £525 £440 £583
% change year-on-year +19.45% -24.55% -4.90%

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 1,808 1,482 2,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.43% 11.57% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 990 1,653
10th Percentile £359 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £673 £725
90th Percentile £702 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 13 29
10th Percentile £15.85 £26.01 £19.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £23.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +49.20% -13.83%
75th Percentile £41.44 £53.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £82.78 £82.75 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.91
% change year-on-year -38.10% +64.51% -32.82%

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
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 June 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 -23 1 - -
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 8 (100.00%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
1 1 (12.50%) Firebase
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) MailChimp
1 1 (12.50%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) Content Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Technologist
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Creative Technologist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Technologist
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Framer.js
2 3 (37.50%) GreenSock GSAP
2 3 (37.50%) WebGL
3 2 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Animation
2 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Content Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) LLM
5 2 (25.00%) Personalization
5 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (25.00%) UX Design
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) SEO
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft