Headless CMS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Headless CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 173 181
Rank change year-on-year -67 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.015% 0.028% 0.062%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.16% 0.21% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £475 £488 £525
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £440 £583
% change year-on-year +19.45% -24.55% -4.90%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

Headless 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 609 481 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 8.83% 13.48% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 336 271
10th Percentile £289 £235 £238
25th Percentile £363 £358 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £521 £568
90th Percentile £637 £600 £656
England median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 11 36
10th Percentile £18.50 £37.80 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £39.67 £13.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £47.12 £24.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +93.11% +10.91%
75th Percentile £73.44 £72.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.91
% change year-on-year -38.10% +64.51% -32.82%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Headless CMS job vacancy trend in the North of England

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Headless CMS
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 Headless CMS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. 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 -48 1 £450 -5.26%
Headless CMS
England

Headless 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 1 (100.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) ATDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft