Adobe Experience Manager Contract Job Trends in the North West

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) formerly Adobe CQ, Communiqué CQ5, Day CQ
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Adobe Experience Manager skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 112 132
Rank change year-on-year -31 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 1 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% 0.27% 0.038%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.33% 2.88% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £552 -
25th Percentile £425 £552 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £565 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.33% - -
75th Percentile £475 £585 -
90th Percentile - £600 -
England median daily rate £450 £552 £550
% change year-on-year -18.48% +0.36% -5.38%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

Adobe Experience Manager 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 303 208 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.28% 9.22% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 138 113
10th Percentile £214 £203 £222
25th Percentile £325 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £450 £451
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -0.11% +0.11%
75th Percentile £500 £549 £568
90th Percentile £579 £600 £663
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 9
10th Percentile £19.75 £16.19 £12.95
25th Percentile £34.50 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.29 £25.03 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.94% +43.03% -
75th Percentile £70.95 £36.56 £19.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £50.70 £32.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.65% +63.46% +33.33%

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Adobe Experience Manager relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Adobe Experience Manager job vacancy trend in the North West

Adobe Experience Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester - 1 £450 - 1
Adobe Experience Manager
England

Adobe Experience Manager
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jasmine
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) NestJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk