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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 331 339
Rank change year-on-year +43 +8 +45
Contract jobs citing Content Management 47 66 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.38% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 68
10th Percentile £204 £178 £304
25th Percentile £299 £198 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £469
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.00% -5.30%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £578
90th Percentile £575 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +12.22% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £15.96 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £17.22 -
Median hourly rate £29.80 £19.38 £16.77
Median % change year-on-year +53.81% +15.53% -
75th Percentile £32.05 £21.47 £43.52
90th Percentile - £22.69 £59.56
UK median hourly rate £30.93 £27.61 £26.50
% change year-on-year +12.03% +4.17% -44.73%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +48 16 £508 +35.33% 210
North of England 0 11 £500 +17.65% 186
Scotland +4 10 £325 +81.74% 25
Midlands +8 6 £425 -15.30% 138
North West +5 6 £500 - 99
West Midlands +10 5 £300 -40.21% 74
North East +1 3 £575 -11.54% 19
Yorkshire -1 2 £412 +91.47% 68
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 12
South West +36 1 £170 -54.67% 82
East of England +31 1 - - 110
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 55
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 22 (46.81%) CMS
2 11 (23.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (10.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Umbraco
4 4 (8.51%) Documentum
4 4 (8.51%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (6.38%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (6.38%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (6.38%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (6.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (6.38%) FileNet
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (6.38%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (6.38%) Skype for Business
6 2 (4.26%) EPiServer
6 2 (4.26%) WordPress
7 1 (2.13%) Apache
7 1 (2.13%) Drupal
7 1 (2.13%) JBoss
7 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (6.38%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.13%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) Google Analytics
2 5 (10.64%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Google Workspace
2 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.51%) Serverless
4 3 (6.38%) Adobe Analytics
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.26%) Azure
5 2 (4.26%) Canva
5 2 (4.26%) SaaS
5 2 (4.26%) ShareGate
6 1 (2.13%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.13%) Contentsquare
6 1 (2.13%) Figma
6 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Firewall
1 5 (10.64%) VLAN
1 5 (10.64%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (6.38%) DDNS
2 3 (6.38%) DHCP
2 3 (6.38%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) SAN
2 3 (6.38%) VPN
3 2 (4.26%) Internet
3 2 (4.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Metadata
2 4 (8.51%) Power BI
3 2 (4.26%) GIS
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Hudson
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Postman
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Marketing
3 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
4 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.51%) Publishing
6 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Billing
7 1 (2.13%) Games
7 1 (2.13%) Local Government
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Lead
2 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) IT Support
4 4 (8.51%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Consultant
4 4 (8.51%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Content Editor
5 3 (6.38%) Documentum Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Exchange Support
5 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Development Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Digital Content Editor
6 2 (4.26%) Digital Editor
6 2 (4.26%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) HTML
2 4 (8.51%) CSS
3 2 (4.26%) J2EE
3 2 (4.26%) REST
3 2 (4.26%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.13%) CSS3
4 1 (2.13%) HTML5
4 1 (2.13%) JAX-WS
4 1 (2.13%) JMS
4 1 (2.13%) jQuery
4 1 (2.13%) JSP
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
4 1 (2.13%) RESTful
4 1 (2.13%) Servlets
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
4 1 (2.13%) Spring MVC
4 1 (2.13%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Social Media
2 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.38%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (6.38%) Life Science
3 3 (6.38%) Replication
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.26%) Learning Management System
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.79%) Analytics
2 8 (17.02%) Agile
2 8 (17.02%) Change Management
3 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (14.89%) Enterprise Content Management
3 7 (14.89%) Migration
3 7 (14.89%) Time Management
3 7 (14.89%) Workflow
4 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.77%) SEO
5 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
5 5 (10.64%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (10.64%) Post-Production
5 5 (10.64%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
5 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.51%) Architectural Design
6 4 (8.51%) Data Protection
6 4 (8.51%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.51%) Java
2 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.38%) Python
3 3 (6.38%) Rust
4 1 (2.13%) C#
4 1 (2.13%) Groovy
4 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.26%) PMO
3 2 (4.26%) WCAG
4 1 (2.13%) GxP
4 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.38%) Brightmail
1 3 (6.38%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Ansible
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (6.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Google
2 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.02%) Adobe
4 4 (8.51%) OpenText
5 3 (6.38%) Facebook
5 3 (6.38%) Instagram
5 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 3 (6.38%) Twitter
6 2 (4.26%) Hotjar
7 1 (2.13%) Hyland
7 1 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) YouTube