CMS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Content Management System (CMS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 113 131
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing CMS 21 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.04% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.10% 5.95% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 12
10th Percentile £371 £300 £120
25th Percentile £453 £358 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £384 £403
Median % change year-on-year +49.84% -4.66% -21.46%
75th Percentile £650 £386 £427
90th Percentile - £393 £437
South East median daily rate £568 £386 £419
% change year-on-year +47.02% -7.82% -16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - £16.84
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £17.34
75th Percentile £27.25 - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £26.50 - £17.34
% change year-on-year - - -37.68%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 208 185 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.28% 8.78% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 107 154
10th Percentile £363 £250 £206
25th Percentile £413 £389 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +3.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £546
90th Percentile £650 £608 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 16
10th Percentile £57.70 - £22.44
25th Percentile £72.88 £41.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £63.15 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year +28.27% +107.64% +125.28%
75th Percentile £91.50 £64.73 £65.91
90th Percentile £100.55 - £70.32
South East median hourly rate £80.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.80% +4.17% +157.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

CMS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMS

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Berkshire +4 12 £650 +68.83% 2
Buckinghamshire - 7 £440 - 3
Oxfordshire -14 2 - - 2
CMS
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (42.86%) Confluence
1 9 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (4.76%) Drupal
2 1 (4.76%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP ERP
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Serverless
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (4.76%) Kontent
2 1 (4.76%) prismic.io
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Retail
3 4 (19.05%) Automotive
4 3 (14.29%) Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) Finance
6 1 (4.76%) Agriculture
6 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Project Manager
2 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce Manager
2 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Information Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Knowledge Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Applications Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Applications Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Digital Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Mobile Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Web Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) Vue
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) CSS3
3 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) HTML5
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) JSR 170
3 1 (4.76%) OSGi
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 3 (14.29%) Taxonomies
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Life Science
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) CRM
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (42.86%) Project Management
3 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (38.10%) PRINCE2
5 7 (33.33%) Content Management
6 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
7 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 3 (14.29%) Information Architecture
7 3 (14.29%) Information Management
7 3 (14.29%) Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Records Management
8 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
8 2 (9.52%) DevOps
8 2 (9.52%) Information Governance
8 2 (9.52%) Marketing Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (9.52%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) PMI Certification
1 8 (38.10%) PMP
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Facebook
2 1 (4.76%) HubSpot
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle