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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 75 92
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing CMS 9 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.87% 0.83% 0.87%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.87% 9.17% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 15
10th Percentile £308 £187 £248
25th Percentile £314 £359 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £438 £525 £517
90th Percentile £503 £590 £544
North West median daily rate £344 £450 £414
% change year-on-year -23.56% +8.76% -12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £23.50 -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 131 109 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.73% 9.04% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 72 106
10th Percentile £313 £201 £257
25th Percentile £360 £400 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year - -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £600
90th Percentile £580 £650 £681
North West median daily rate £410 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -11.35% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile - £25.90 -
25th Percentile £34.50 £29.50 -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £35.00 £16.62
Median % change year-on-year +103.57% +110.59% -76.26%
75th Percentile £75.63 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £77.88 £60.75 -
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +17.80% +110.53% -67.21%

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

CMS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CMS

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CMS

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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 (11.11%) Headless CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Sketch
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Contentful
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Agriculture
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Content Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Communications Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Interface Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) UI Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) Express.js
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Jest
1 1 (11.11%) Laravel
1 1 (11.11%) Next.js
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) React Native
1 1 (11.11%) Redux
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Content Management
2 4 (44.44%) Interaction Design
2 4 (44.44%) Personalization
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) UX Design
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Usability Testing
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Content Writing
5 1 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Generation
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (11.11%) Product Requirements
5 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PHP
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Hopewiser
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Sitecore