CMS Contracts in the Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 110 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 +22 +71
Contract jobs citing CMS 5 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.84% 0.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.12% 9.43% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 17
10th Percentile £520 £321 £380
25th Percentile £531 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +29.73% -1.60%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £510
90th Percentile £690 £688 £556
England median daily rate £461 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -2.89% +11.76% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £22.25 £17.34
% change year-on-year +30.34% +28.32% -76.08%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 236 244 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.67% 8.89% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 162 249
10th Percentile £272 £251 £188
25th Percentile £338 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £513 £547 £538
90th Percentile £584 £638 £594
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 6
10th Percentile £23.11 £14.77 £17.88
25th Percentile £30.04 £20.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.43 £38.03 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +92.56% +9.72%
75th Percentile £41.39 £51.91 £21.13
90th Percentile £52.93 £53.45 £21.50
England median hourly rate £43.09 £31.71 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.89% -31.33% +109.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
West Midlands -24 3 £613 +2.08% 11
East Midlands -2 2 £550 +34.15% 20
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (20.00%) InDesign
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (20.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (20.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Asana
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Content Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Web Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Content Management
1 2 (40.00%) Copywriting
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (20.00%) Content Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Personalization
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Facebook
1 1 (20.00%) Instagram
1 1 (20.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (20.00%) Sitecore
1 1 (20.00%) Twitter
1 1 (20.00%) YouTube