CMS Contracts in the North East

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing CMS 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.06% 0.41% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.69% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £191 - -
25th Percentile £216 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% - -
75th Percentile £328 £675 -
90th Percentile £349 - -
England median daily rate £445 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -6.32% +11.76% -15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 39 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 13.78% 8.13% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 7 15
10th Percentile £180 £315 £350
25th Percentile £188 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +0.96%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £725
90th Percentile £585 £700 £820
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49.63 - -
Median hourly rate £53.61 - -
75th Percentile £57.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.45 £37.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +10.53% -21.05% +120.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CMS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the North East over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CMS

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Tyne and Wear -3 3 £275 -57.69% 5
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (33.33%) Documentum
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Lightsail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Rust
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform