CMS Contracts in South Wales

Content Management System (CMS)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing CMS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.42% - 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.88% - 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £269 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £306 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £288 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -11.87%

All Application Platform Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 17 32 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 7.08% 9.55% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 55
10th Percentile £186 £383 £192
25th Percentile £221 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £550
90th Percentile £650 - £588
Wales median daily rate £409 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -20.24% +5.13% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £41.35 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £85.00 £18.03
Median hourly rate £20.24 £87.80 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -76.95% +386.16% -10.77%
75th Percentile £20.35 - £18.09
90th Percentile - £87.92 -
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £87.80 £24.53
% change year-on-year -76.95% +257.93% +21.20%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in South Wales

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cardiff - 1 £288 - 3
CMS
Wales

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla! Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Joomla! Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP