CMS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Content Management System (CMS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 122 119
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 +30
Contract jobs citing CMS 25 4 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.49% 0.17% 0.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.32% 2.23% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 24
10th Percentile £329 - £182
25th Percentile £350 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £575 £388 £597
90th Percentile £647 - £700
South East median daily rate £425 £540 £370
% change year-on-year -21.30% +45.95% -20.00%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £26.50 - £17.34
% change year-on-year - - +28.44%

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 203 179 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.08% 7.77% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 108 180
10th Percentile £329 £294 £249
25th Percentile £397 £412 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +6.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £576
90th Percentile £650 £612 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.88 £20.37
25th Percentile £20.85 £23.21 £24.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.83 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -47.75% +195.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.37 £76.10
90th Percentile £73.20 £68.25 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £67.02 £57.50
% change year-on-year -51.10% +16.56% +187.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the Thames Valley

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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 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in the Thames Valley

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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 15 August 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 +27 16 £463 - 7
Buckinghamshire +10 6 £357 - 7
Oxfordshire -6 3 £450 +20.00% 8
CMS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (32.00%) Umbraco
2 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (16.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (12.00%) Confluence
4 3 (12.00%) Headless CMS
5 1 (4.00%) Drupal
5 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Google Analytics
1 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Metadata
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Marketing
3 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.00%) Publishing
3 3 (12.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Agriculture
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Content Editor
2 4 (16.00%) Umbraco Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Web Content Editor
2 4 (16.00%) Web Editor
3 3 (12.00%) Information Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) CMS Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Development Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (8.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) React Developer
5 1 (4.00%) CMS Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) React
2 3 (12.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) .NET
3 2 (8.00%) Next.js
3 2 (8.00%) Spring
3 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.00%) Vue
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.00%) JPA
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) Life Science
2 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (12.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Learning Management System
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Content Management
2 6 (24.00%) CRM
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Analytics
3 5 (20.00%) Migration
3 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
5 3 (12.00%) Change Management
5 3 (12.00%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (12.00%) Information Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) Information Management
5 3 (12.00%) Project Management
5 3 (12.00%) Records Management
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.00%) SEO
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.00%) User Experience
6 2 (8.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (8.00%) PMP
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Virgin Media
2 4 (16.00%) Sitecore
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) Adobe
4 2 (8.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Hotjar
5 1 (4.00%) Facebook
5 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce