CMS Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Content Management System (CMS)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing CMS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.43% - 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.76% - 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £360 £450 £403
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.80% -15.26%

All Application Platform Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 21 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.09% 4.78% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 12
10th Percentile - £146 £171
25th Percentile £134 £148 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £138 £150 £263
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -42.86% -41.67%
75th Percentile £438 £196 £500
90th Percentile £488 £221 -
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% -0.06% +0.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £19.13
90th Percentile - - £19.35
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £31.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +52.00% +51.22% +13.89%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

CMS job vacancy trend in Merseyside

CMS
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing CMS

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing CMS

CMS
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 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
Liverpool - 1 £275 - 4
CMS
North West

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) EPiServer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle