Headless CMS Contracts in the South East

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 156 203 217
Rank change year-on-year +47 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.036% 0.086%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.97% 0.53% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £365 - £628
25th Percentile £425 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £700
75th Percentile £575 - £701
90th Percentile - - £708
England median daily rate £409 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -18.20% -2.44% +5.13%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 308 379 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.23% 6.82% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 244 459
10th Percentile £263 £225 £230
25th Percentile £401 £325 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £608 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 25
10th Percentile £25.33 £16.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £38.53 £22.61 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £76.50 £77.51
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the South East

Headless CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Headless CMS in the South East

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Headless CMS in the South East

Headless CMS
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 Headless CMS within the South East 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
Thames Valley +44 3 £550 - 1
Berkshire - 3 £550 - 1
Headless CMS
England

Headless CMS
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 3 (100.00%) CMS
1 3 (100.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (66.67%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Umbraco Developer
2 2 (66.67%) CMS Developer
2 2 (66.67%) React Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Jamstack
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Webhook
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Sitecore
1 2 (66.67%) Virgin Media