Headless CMS Contracts in Scotland

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £409 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -18.20% -4.76% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 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%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in Scotland

Headless CMS
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 Headless 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
Edinburgh - 2 - - 1
Headless CMS
UK

Headless CMS
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 2 (100.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) e-Learning Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible