Headless CMS Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Headless CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Headless 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 119 134 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.051% 0.11% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.33% 1.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile £463 £444 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £488 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £409 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -18.20% -2.44% +5.13%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 307 196 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 7.11% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 123 187
10th Percentile £187 £230 £231
25th Percentile £325 £312 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £510 £520 £550
90th Percentile £588 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 8
10th Percentile £16.25 - £15.18
25th Percentile £22.01 £13.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £45.00 £26.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £46.18 £39.93
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the North West

Headless CMS
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 Headless CMS within the North West 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
Manchester +15 1 £475 -5.00% 2
Headless CMS
England

Headless 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 1 (100.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Contentful
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker