CMS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 145 150
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +53
Contract jobs citing CMS 41 16 34
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.86% 0.45% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.35% 3.91% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 25
10th Percentile £281 £197 £270
25th Percentile £318 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £470 £488 £500
90th Percentile £500 £568 £540
England median daily rate £455 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +1.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Median hourly rate - £22.13 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +70.23% -49.51%
England median hourly rate £27.21 £43.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +129.63% -15.56%

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 558 409 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.71% 11.56% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 244 239
10th Percentile £185 £205 £200
25th Percentile £313 £355 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +9.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £579 £638 £644
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 21
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.16 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.00 £15.46
Median hourly rate £41.00 £22.13 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.27% +26.46% -18.60%
75th Percentile £69.35 £37.32 £22.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £48.38 £23.75
England median hourly rate £28.86 £42.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year -31.63% +62.33% +46.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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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 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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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 23 December 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
Yorkshire -19 24 £413 -9.59% 44
North West -25 15 £360 -20.00% 62
North East - 2 £450 - 10
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (26.83%) CICS
2 5 (12.20%) WordPress
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) Documentum
3 1 (2.44%) Drupal
3 1 (2.44%) EPiServer
3 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Sketch
2 4 (9.76%) Trello
3 2 (4.88%) InVision
4 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (26.83%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (9.76%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (9.76%) Shopify
3 2 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Figma
2 4 (9.76%) Asana
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) Google Ads
2 4 (9.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 4 (9.76%) Serverless
2 4 (9.76%) Wix.com
3 2 (4.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.44%) AWS
4 1 (2.44%) Canva
4 1 (2.44%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (2.44%) GIS
1 1 (2.44%) Looker
1 1 (2.44%) MySQL
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) ChangeMan
2 4 (9.76%) Storybook
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Git
4 1 (2.44%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) Selenium
4 1 (2.44%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (60.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Finance
3 9 (21.95%) Banking
3 9 (21.95%) Marketing
4 6 (14.63%) Legal
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.76%) Retail
6 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Law
7 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.44%) Publishing
7 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 8 (19.51%) Designer
3 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Content Designer
4 4 (9.76%) Coordinator
4 4 (9.76%) Project Coordinator
4 4 (9.76%) Technical Leader
4 4 (9.76%) UX Designer
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Writer
6 2 (4.88%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 1 (2.44%) Customer Service Specialist
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Author
7 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
7 1 (2.44%) GIS Business Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Head of CRM
7 1 (2.44%) Head of Projects
7 1 (2.44%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Product Designer
7 1 (2.44%) Senior
7 1 (2.44%) UI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) HTML
2 5 (12.20%) CSS
3 4 (9.76%) Bootstrap
3 4 (9.76%) CSS3
3 4 (9.76%) Express.js
3 4 (9.76%) HTML5
3 4 (9.76%) Next.js
3 4 (9.76%) Node.js
3 4 (9.76%) React
3 4 (9.76%) Redux
3 4 (9.76%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) .NET
4 1 (2.44%) Laravel
4 1 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Mainframe
2 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.20%) VSAM
3 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.44%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.44%) Life Science
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Social Media
3 1 (2.44%) Video Editing
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.44%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Content Management
2 13 (31.71%) Agile
3 12 (29.27%) SEO
4 11 (26.83%) DevOps
5 9 (21.95%) User Experience
6 8 (19.51%) Analytics
7 7 (17.07%) Interaction Design
7 7 (17.07%) Personalization
7 7 (17.07%) UX Design
8 6 (14.63%) Batch Scheduling
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.63%) SDLC
9 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (12.20%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (12.20%) E-Commerce
9 5 (12.20%) Project Management
9 5 (12.20%) Usability Testing
9 5 (12.20%) Validation
10 4 (9.76%) B2C
10 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.83%) COBOL
2 6 (14.63%) JCL
3 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) PHP
4 1 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) REXX
4 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Hopewiser
2 5 (12.20%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.88%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Brio
4 1 (2.44%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.44%) Zoho