Content Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Content Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Management 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 292 318 363
Rank change year-on-year +26 +45 +25
Contract jobs citing Content Management 42 76 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.43% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 51 62
10th Percentile £200 £178 £351
25th Percentile £276 £199 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £425 £493
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -13.71% +9.44%
75th Percentile £536 £675 £611
90th Percentile £575 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +1.50% -0.10% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £21.45 £15.96 -
25th Percentile £24.76 £17.22 £16.77
Median hourly rate £29.80 £19.38 £19.64
Median % change year-on-year +53.81% -1.32% -
75th Percentile £32.05 £21.47 £35.38
90th Percentile - £22.69 £56.31
UK median hourly rate £29.80 £29.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +2.76% +27.47% -52.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Content Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Management in the UK excluding London

Content Management
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 Content Management within the UK excluding London 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
South East +39 14 £508 +12.78% 51
North of England -3 12 £429 -10.86% 36
Scotland +6 11 £325 +81.74% 4
North West +9 9 £358 -28.40% 23
South West +26 4 £177 -52.93% 23
North East -3 2 £463 -28.85% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Midlands +3 1 £200 -64.91% 27
West Midlands +1 1 £200 -61.90% 14
Yorkshire -6 1 £538 +90.27% 11
Content Management
UK

Content Management
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 21 (50.00%) CMS
2 8 (19.05%) SharePoint
3 6 (14.29%) Umbraco
4 4 (9.52%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Documentum
5 3 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (7.14%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (7.14%) Skype for Business
6 2 (4.76%) EPiServer
6 2 (4.76%) FileNet
6 2 (4.76%) WordPress
7 1 (2.38%) Apache
7 1 (2.38%) JBoss
7 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
7 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.38%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) Google Workspace
2 4 (9.52%) Google Analytics
3 3 (7.14%) AWS
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.14%) Serverless
4 2 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.76%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) Canva
4 2 (4.76%) ShareGate
5 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.38%) Figma
5 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.38%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Firewall
1 5 (11.90%) VLAN
1 5 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (9.52%) Intranet
3 3 (7.14%) DDNS
3 3 (7.14%) DHCP
3 3 (7.14%) DNS
3 3 (7.14%) SAN
3 3 (7.14%) VPN
4 2 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) GIS
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Hudson
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (11.90%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Publishing
5 2 (4.76%) Local Government
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 5 (11.90%) Developer
1 5 (11.90%) IT Support
1 5 (11.90%) Lead
1 5 (11.90%) Senior
2 3 (7.14%) Architect
2 3 (7.14%) Content Editor
2 3 (7.14%) Exchange Engineer
2 3 (7.14%) Exchange Support
2 3 (7.14%) Project Manager
2 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 2 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (4.76%) Analyst
3 2 (4.76%) Consultant
3 2 (4.76%) Development Specialist
3 2 (4.76%) Digital Content Editor
3 2 (4.76%) Digital Editor
3 2 (4.76%) Documentum Developer
3 2 (4.76%) Technical Writer
3 2 (4.76%) Web Content Designer
3 2 (4.76%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) HTML
2 3 (7.14%) CSS
3 2 (4.76%) J2EE
3 2 (4.76%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) Web Services
4 1 (2.38%) Ajax
4 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.38%) CSS3
4 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.38%) HTML5
4 1 (2.38%) JAX-WS
4 1 (2.38%) JMS
4 1 (2.38%) jQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Middleware
4 1 (2.38%) RESTful
4 1 (2.38%) SPFx
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (2.38%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.52%) Social Media
3 3 (7.14%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (7.14%) Replication
3 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.76%) Digital Media
4 2 (4.76%) Learning Management System
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Life Science
4 2 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (4.76%) Linux
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.43%) Analytics
1 9 (21.43%) Project Management
2 7 (16.67%) Agile
2 7 (16.67%) Time Management
2 7 (16.67%) Workflow
3 6 (14.29%) Change Management
3 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (11.90%) Customer Service
4 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Content Management
4 5 (11.90%) Migration
4 5 (11.90%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (11.90%) Post-Production
4 5 (11.90%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
4 5 (11.90%) Project Planning
4 5 (11.90%) User Experience
5 4 (9.52%) Asset Management
5 4 (9.52%) High Availability
5 4 (9.52%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.14%) Java
1 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.76%) Rust
3 1 (2.38%) C#
3 1 (2.38%) Groovy
3 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.76%) PMO
3 2 (4.76%) WCAG
4 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.14%) Brightmail
1 3 (7.14%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (4.76%) Ansible
2 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Google
2 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Adobe
4 2 (4.76%) Facebook
4 2 (4.76%) Instagram
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Twitter
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.38%) Hyland
5 1 (2.38%) IBM
5 1 (2.38%) OpenText