CMS Contract Job Trends in Reading

Content Management System (CMS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 86 84
Rank change year-on-year +18 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing CMS 2 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.31% 0.65% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.60% 9.72% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £424 £363 £363
25th Percentile £461 £383 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £385 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.70% -9.41% -33.04%
75th Percentile £584 £386 £550
90th Percentile £620 £394 £618
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £385 £425
% change year-on-year +68.83% -9.41% -31.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - - £17.34
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £17.34

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 77 72 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.79% 6.65% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 46 44
10th Percentile £400 £325 -
25th Percentile £462 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.90% +0.26%
75th Percentile £623 £572 £551
90th Percentile £746 £608 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.58 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £63.15 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +28.27% +264.19% -
75th Percentile - £64.73 £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £80.00 £52.83 £68.63
% change year-on-year +51.44% -23.03% -25.81%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

CMS job vacancy trend in Reading

CMS
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMS

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Reading

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMS

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) SFIA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform