CMS Contracts in Scotland

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 111 139
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 +6
Contract jobs citing CMS 13 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.02% 5.39% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 19
10th Percentile £228 - £298
25th Percentile £323 £178 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £179 £425
Median % change year-on-year +214.54% -57.92% +3.03%
75th Percentile £588 £450 £500
90th Percentile £595 £469 £502
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 216 334 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.29% 15.07% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 203 230
10th Percentile £222 £219 £181
25th Percentile £313 £350 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £453 £436
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +3.90% -3.11%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £525
90th Percentile £575 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.36 £17.83
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.42 £17.99
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -8.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.50 £36.25
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.93 £46.75
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for CMS in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +9 8 £575 - 1
Edinburgh -5 5 £263 +46.79% 3
CMS
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (30.77%) CICS
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Headless CMS
2 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
3 1 (7.69%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Google Analytics
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) Communications Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Content Editor
4 1 (7.69%) e-Learning Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Management Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Communications Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Content Editor
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Middleware
2 4 (30.77%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) J2EE
4 2 (15.38%) Next.js
4 2 (15.38%) Playwright
4 2 (15.38%) Vitest
5 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mainframe
2 4 (30.77%) VSAM
3 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Media
4 1 (7.69%) e-Learning
4 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Content Management
2 5 (38.46%) Capacity Management
2 5 (38.46%) User Experience
3 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) OOD
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Workflow
6 1 (7.69%) Content Development
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (7.69%) Social Media Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) REXX
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe