Headless CMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Headless Content Management System (Headless 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 Headless CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Headless CMS over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 444 506
Rank change year-on-year +58 +62 -76
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.029% 0.016%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.40% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £425 £458 £407
25th Percentile £444 £638 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £438
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +59.82% -2.67%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £466
90th Percentile - £705 £479
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Headless 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 1,757 2,653 3,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 11.11% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 1,902 2,669
10th Percentile £208 £203 £185
25th Percentile £321 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £548
90th Percentile £650 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.10% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 102 138
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.01 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.56 £15.04
Median hourly rate £23.63 £26.48 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +43.14% -2.63%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.44 £36.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +77.78% +4.02%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the UK excluding London

Headless CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Headless CMS in the UK excluding London

Headless CMS
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 Headless CMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 West - 3 £500 - 1
North of England - 3 £500 - 2
Midlands +30 2 - - 3
West Midlands +24 2 - - 2
South East +19 2 - - 2
Headless CMS
UK

Headless 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 7 (100.00%) CMS
2 2 (28.57%) Kentico
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Contentstack
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Jackrabbit
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Sling
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) DOM
3 2 (28.57%) GatsbyJS
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) OSGi
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) Next.js
4 1 (14.29%) Web Components
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Content Management
1 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft