CMS Contracts in the North West

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 107 122
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing CMS 8 13 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.52% 1.02%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.67% 6.74% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 26
10th Percentile £293 £310 £214
25th Percentile £335 £431 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £525
90th Percentile £540 £611 £638
England median daily rate £461 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -2.89% +11.76% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £13.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £22.25 £17.34
% change year-on-year +30.34% +28.32% -76.08%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 300 193 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.65% 7.77% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 129 185
10th Percentile £263 £213 £207
25th Percentile £350 £319 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £489 £538 £563
90th Percentile £600 £639 £661
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 12
10th Percentile £34.50 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £37.80 £13.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.11 £24.40 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.86% +19.02% -64.62%
75th Percentile £71.09 £42.50 £23.40
90th Percentile £76.75 £47.63 £28.48
England median hourly rate £43.09 £31.71 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.89% -31.33% +109.91%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the North West over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the North West

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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 CMS within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 July 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 +7 4 £475 +5.56% 20
Cheshire - 2 £442 - 2
Merseyside - 1 £275 - 6
CMS
England

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) EPiServer
2 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Contentful
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Hudson
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Billing
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Law
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) CMS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Tester
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) Express.js
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) JAX-WS
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) JSP
2 1 (12.50%) Laravel
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) React Native
2 1 (12.50%) Redux
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) API Integration
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) Content Management
1 2 (25.00%) CRM
1 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (25.00%) Microservices
1 2 (25.00%) MVC
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
1 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
2 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (12.50%) Product Requirements
2 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) System Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Optimizely
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud