CMS Contracts in the North of England

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 153 154 178
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +5
Contract jobs citing CMS 13 31 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.65% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.61% 8.73% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 28
10th Percentile £287 £254 £232
25th Percentile £325 £308 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £404 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.00% +5.52%
75th Percentile £525 £464 £506
90th Percentile £568 £525 £638
England median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £19.80 - -
25th Percentile £20.63 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.13 £13.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.23% -42.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £23.51 - £23.75
90th Percentile £24.26 £16.15 -
England median hourly rate £28.41 £13.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +118.50% -42.22% -32.91%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 498 355 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 7.45% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 235 355
10th Percentile £188 £203 £200
25th Percentile £333 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -2.63% +8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £610 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 38 10
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.00 £15.89
25th Percentile £24.76 £13.31 £16.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 £15.23 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +169.21% -31.55% +20.27%
75th Percentile £57.59 £44.47 £28.06
90th Percentile £77.00 £46.18 £36.98
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +7 10 £475 +22.58% 50
North East +1 2 £350 -46.15% 5
Yorkshire -1 1 £575 +41.10% 19
CMS
England

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (15.38%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
1 2 (15.38%) WordPress
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.69%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Lightsail
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.69%) Contentful
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Hudson
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Billing
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Content Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Digital Content Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Digital Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Web Content Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Web Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) CMS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Writer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) CSS3
3 1 (7.69%) Express.js
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) JAX-WS
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) JMS
3 1 (7.69%) JSP
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
3 1 (7.69%) Redux
3 1 (7.69%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Content Management
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
3 2 (15.38%) Information Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
4 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.69%) Conversational UI
4 1 (7.69%) Product Requirements
4 1 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Sitecore
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Optimizely
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media