CMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 261 255 339
Rank change year-on-year -6 +84 -100
Contract jobs citing CMS 131 214 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.89% 0.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.35% 7.86% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 165 128
10th Percentile £208 £260 £254
25th Percentile £270 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £415 £451
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% -7.88% +28.71%
75th Percentile £528 £530 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile - - £25.45
25th Percentile - - £29.88
Median hourly rate £13.00 £16.77 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% -56.44% +92.50%
75th Percentile £14.78 £20.26 £39.75
90th Percentile £26.65 £22.35 -
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
% change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +84.91%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,783 2,722 3,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 11.28% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,948 2,684
10th Percentile £213 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £499 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -2.21% -1.45% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 102 142
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.75 £17.48 £15.04
Median hourly rate £24.09 £26.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +39.95% -6.25%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.94 £36.27
90th Percentile £69.63 £78.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £28.01 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -34.10% +93.18% -2.22%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +16 31 £404 -5.00% 41
South West +33 29 £308 -23.13% 17
Midlands +26 23 £600 +52.87% 34
West Midlands +35 22 £600 +41.18% 14
North West +11 20 £388 -8.82% 24
Scotland +27 18 £179 -57.92% 8
South East -11 15 £491 +22.81% 39
East of England -23 15 £625 +19.50% 13
Yorkshire +18 10 £408 -6.32% 16
North East +21 1 £650 +20.93% 1
East Midlands +17 1 £410 +4.46% 20
CMS
UK

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (10.69%) Drupal
1 14 (10.69%) Umbraco
2 12 (9.16%) Sitecore CMS
3 7 (5.34%) Headless CMS
4 6 (4.58%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.29%) Kentico
6 2 (1.53%) WordPress
7 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.76%) Apache
7 1 (0.76%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.76%) IIS
7 1 (0.76%) Jadu
7 1 (0.76%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (9.92%) Photoshop
3 10 (7.63%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (4.58%) PTC Creo
5 3 (2.29%) Windchill
6 2 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.76%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Magento
2 3 (2.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.69%) Azure
2 11 (8.40%) AWS
3 10 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.58%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (3.05%) Contentstack
5 4 (3.05%) GCP
6 3 (2.29%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Serverless
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.76%) Canva
8 1 (0.76%) Contentful
8 1 (0.76%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.76%) IaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Miro
8 1 (0.76%) PaaS
8 1 (0.76%) SaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) Intranet
2 6 (4.58%) DNS
2 6 (4.58%) SSL
3 3 (2.29%) FTP
3 3 (2.29%) HTTP
3 3 (2.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.29%) Metadata
2 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.76%) DB2
3 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.76%) Jackrabbit
3 1 (0.76%) Looker
3 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.29%) GitLab
2 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.29%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) Selenium
2 3 (2.29%) Subversion
3 2 (1.53%) HP UFT
3 2 (1.53%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.76%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 41 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.21%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.92%) Marketing
4 12 (9.16%) Retail
5 10 (7.63%) Publishing
6 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.29%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.29%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.53%) Finance
10 2 (1.53%) Games
11 1 (0.76%) Automotive
11 1 (0.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 35 (26.72%) Developer
2 16 (12.21%) Analyst
2 16 (12.21%) SOC Analyst
3 13 (9.92%) Senior
4 10 (7.63%) Content Manager
5 9 (6.87%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (6.11%) Designer
7 7 (5.34%) Content Designer
7 7 (5.34%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (5.34%) IT Support
8 6 (4.58%) .NET Developer
8 6 (4.58%) Architect
8 6 (4.58%) Consultant
8 6 (4.58%) Web Manager
8 6 (4.58%) Web Specialist
9 5 (3.82%) Digital Content Manager
9 5 (3.82%) Full Stack PHP Developer
9 5 (3.82%) Junior
9 5 (3.82%) PHP Developer
9 5 (3.82%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.21%) .NET
2 15 (11.45%) HTML
3 13 (9.92%) CSS
4 10 (7.63%) React
5 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.82%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.82%) Laravel
6 4 (3.05%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.05%) JSON
6 4 (3.05%) Vue
7 3 (2.29%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (2.29%) JSP
7 3 (2.29%) LDAP
8 2 (1.53%) Apache Sling
8 2 (1.53%) DOM
8 2 (1.53%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.53%) Flash
8 2 (1.53%) OSGi
8 2 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Cyberattack
2 13 (9.92%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (8.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (7.63%) Social Media
5 7 (5.34%) EPoS
5 7 (5.34%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.82%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.05%) Handset
7 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.29%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.29%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.53%) Life Science
9 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.76%) CMDB
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Linux
1 17 (12.98%) Windows
2 2 (1.53%) Android
2 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.06%) Content Management
2 23 (17.56%) User Experience
3 18 (13.74%) Agile
4 17 (12.98%) E-Commerce
5 16 (12.21%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (12.21%) Incident Response
6 14 (10.69%) Analytics
7 13 (9.92%) Security Operations
7 13 (9.92%) SEO
8 11 (8.40%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (8.40%) Validation
9 10 (7.63%) DevOps
9 10 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (6.11%) CRM
10 8 (6.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (5.34%) Copywriting
11 7 (5.34%) Migration
12 6 (4.58%) CAD
12 6 (4.58%) Customer Service
12 6 (4.58%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.98%) JavaScript
2 8 (6.11%) C#
3 7 (5.34%) SQL
4 5 (3.82%) Java
4 5 (3.82%) PHP
5 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.29%) Python
7 1 (0.76%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 21 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.34%) Degree
3 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.29%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) PMO
4 1 (0.76%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Ansible
2 1 (0.76%) AppManager
2 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.21%) Darktrace
2 16 (12.21%) FireEye
2 16 (12.21%) LogRhythm
2 16 (12.21%) Splunk
3 12 (9.16%) Sitecore
4 8 (6.11%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.05%) Avaya
5 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.29%) Adobe
6 3 (2.29%) Google
6 3 (2.29%) IronPort
6 3 (2.29%) Pega
6 3 (2.29%) PTC
6 3 (2.29%) Sage
6 3 (2.29%) Symantec
7 2 (1.53%) OpenText
8 1 (0.76%) BMC
8 1 (0.76%) Red Hat