CMS Contracts in Reading

Content Management System (CMS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 52 87 81
Rank change year-on-year +35 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing CMS 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.00% 4.94% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £340 £274 £463
25th Percentile - £291 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £338 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -51.79% +33.33%
75th Percentile £463 £391 £701
90th Percentile £575 £411 £708
Berkshire median daily rate £350 £338 £638
% change year-on-year +3.70% -47.06% +21.43%

All Application Platform Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 40 81 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 6.70% 6.80% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 67
10th Percentile £300 £325 £332
25th Percentile £350 £423 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +5.73% +25.34%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £666
90th Percentile - - £713
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +10.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £21.00 £61.21
25th Percentile - £26.25 £72.77
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -55.80% +163.97%
75th Percentile - £50.00 -
90th Percentile - £59.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £71.10
% change year-on-year -35.90% -29.67% +118.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for CMS in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 7 (87.50%) Umbraco
2 4 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (37.50%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
General
1 3 (37.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Content Editor
1 4 (50.00%) Web Content Editor
1 4 (50.00%) Web Editor
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Umbraco Developer
3 2 (25.00%) CMS Developer
3 2 (25.00%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Jamstack
2 2 (25.00%) Webhook
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) BPMN
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Content Development
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Virgin Media
2 4 (50.00%) Sitecore