CMS Contracts in the South West

Content Management System (CMS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 154 154
Rank change year-on-year +33 0 -32
Contract jobs citing CMS 29 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.91% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.51% 4.16% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 15
10th Percentile £208 £293 £350
25th Percentile £220 £350 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% -21.57% +11.78%
75th Percentile £384 £500 £606
90th Percentile £540 £599 £638
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £39.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
% change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +72.12%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

CMS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 305 457 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.56% 12.51% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 358 303
10th Percentile £220 £205 £208
25th Percentile £363 £386 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £499 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 10
10th Percentile - £17.50 £13.87
25th Percentile - £53.75 £20.56
Median hourly rate £40.00 £72.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% +39.42% +133.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £80.25 £69.05
90th Percentile £74.44 £86.66 -
England median hourly rate £27.51 £32.50 £20.95
% change year-on-year -15.36% +55.17% -2.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CMS in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Wiltshire +9 12 £220 -51.11%
Gloucestershire +14 10 £375 -20.21% 7
Bristol +8 7 £350 -8.20% 3
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (34.48%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (13.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (24.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (24.14%) Photoshop
3 6 (20.69%) PTC Creo
4 3 (10.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) HP UFT
1 2 (6.90%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
2 3 (10.34%) Tech for Good
3 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Developer
1 6 (20.69%) Web Specialist
2 4 (13.79%) Content Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Technical Writer
2 4 (13.79%) Web Content Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Web Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 3 (10.34%) PHP Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Umbraco Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Service Management Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Web Content Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) 3D Illustrator
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Writer
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
2 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (10.34%) CSS
2 3 (10.34%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) Laravel
2 3 (10.34%) React
2 3 (10.34%) Vue
3 1 (3.45%) Blazor
3 1 (3.45%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.45%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) User Experience
2 8 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (27.59%) Validation
3 7 (24.14%) Content Management
4 6 (20.69%) CAD
4 6 (20.69%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) MVC
7 3 (10.34%) Clean Code
7 3 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (10.34%) SOLID
8 2 (6.90%) Asset Management
8 2 (6.90%) Configuration Management
8 2 (6.90%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (6.90%) Service Management
8 2 (6.90%) Test Scripting
8 2 (6.90%) Unit Testing
9 1 (3.45%) 3D Animation
9 1 (3.45%) DevOps
9 1 (3.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) C#
1 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.34%) PHP
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
1 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) Sitecore
3 8 (27.59%) Atlassian
4 3 (10.34%) PTC
5 2 (6.90%) OpenText