CMS Contracts in the South East

Content Management System (CMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 196 167
Rank change year-on-year +65 -29 +52
Contract jobs citing CMS 24 12 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.21% 0.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.82% 3.15% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 44
10th Percentile £321 £419 £300
25th Percentile £327 £491 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £540 £381
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +41.64% -23.75%
75th Percentile £418 £594 £459
90th Percentile £575 £650 £689
England median daily rate £461 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +8.53% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - £16.84
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £17.34
75th Percentile £32.05 - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.28 £18.13 £17.92
% change year-on-year +61.52% +1.14% -76.11%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 352 381 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.19% 6.71% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 246 422
10th Percentile £220 £254 £244
25th Percentile £366 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £491
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.27% +3.28%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £623
90th Percentile £630 £626 £694
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 35 33
10th Percentile £17.05 £16.00 £22.01
25th Percentile £30.48 £23.52 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +175.00%
75th Percentile £60.72 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.63 £75.00 £74.74
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.91 £48.00
% change year-on-year +64.51% -33.52% +120.69%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the South East over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS in the South East over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Thames Valley +40 17 £350 -6.67% 87
Berkshire +29 10 £350 - 46
Hampshire +33 5 £200 -70.37% 39
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £339 - 23
Oxfordshire +3 2 £450 +20.00% 18
Sussex - 2 - - 4
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (29.17%) Umbraco
2 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 4 (16.67%) Drupal
2 4 (16.67%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (16.67%) WordPress
3 3 (12.50%) Headless CMS
4 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (8.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Google Analytics
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (16.67%) Git
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Marketing
2 3 (12.50%) Publishing
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
3 2 (8.33%) Social Housing
3 2 (8.33%) Swedish Language
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Content Editor
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) PHP Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Web Content Editor
2 4 (16.67%) Web Editor
3 3 (12.50%) Umbraco Developer
4 2 (8.33%) CMS Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Development Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Digital
4 2 (8.33%) Head of E-Commerce
4 2 (8.33%) React Developer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Executive
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) HTML
2 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
2 5 (20.83%) CSS
3 4 (16.67%) Ajax
3 4 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (16.67%) jQuery
3 4 (16.67%) LAMP
3 4 (16.67%) SOAP
3 4 (16.67%) Web Services
4 3 (12.50%) React
5 2 (8.33%) Next.js
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
6 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.17%) JPA
6 1 (4.17%) Kafka
6 1 (4.17%) RESTful
6 1 (4.17%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.17%) Spring MVC
6 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Code
1 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Learning Management System
2 2 (8.33%) Life Science
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Social Media
3 1 (4.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Content Management
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) MVC
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
5 4 (16.67%) Analytics
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (16.67%) Kanban
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) OO
5 4 (16.67%) OOP
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (12.50%) Microservices
6 3 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Java
1 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) PHP
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) IIBA
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (25.00%) Virgin Media
2 4 (16.67%) Sitecore
2 4 (16.67%) Zend
3 2 (8.33%) Adobe
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Hotjar
4 1 (4.17%) Facebook
4 1 (4.17%) HubSpot
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) SAP