CMS Contracts in Manchester

Content Management System (CMS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 87 107
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing CMS 5 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.50% 10.34% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £267 £265 £358
25th Percentile £393 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.60% +2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £517 £469 £475
90th Percentile £522 £525 £510
North West median daily rate £475 £388 £425
% change year-on-year +22.58% -8.82% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
North West median hourly rate £22.13 £13.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +70.23% -42.22% -

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 143 87 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.44% 5.74% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 60 103
10th Percentile £213 £251 £314
25th Percentile £375 £311 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £526 £550
90th Percentile £600 £653 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £16.14 £27.78 £16.67
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.19 £22.67
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% +70.09% +47.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.44 £38.06
90th Percentile £78.25 £64.23 £54.83
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
% change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for CMS in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Headless CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (20.00%) Contentful
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Content Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Content Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Web Content Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Web Designer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Content Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Generation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Sitecore