Headless CMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Headless CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Headless CMS over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 372 419
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 +93
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.027% 0.050%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.30% 0.30% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £378 £425 £588
25th Percentile £458 £444 £694
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £575 £525 -
90th Percentile - - £701
UK median daily rate £440 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -26.75% +20.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Headless 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,680 1,688 2,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.98% 9.22% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,126 1,581
10th Percentile £235 £225 £200
25th Percentile £356 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £468
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +0.05% +0.65%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £479 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -7.98% +1.46% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 79 106
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.18 £18.82 £18.31
Median hourly rate £46.65 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.29% +21.74% +43.75%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £78.88 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.80 £32.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +34.75% -35.64% +124.44%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 11 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
South East - 3 £550 - 3
North West -10 1 £475 -5.00%
North of England -19 1 £475 -5.00% 2
East of England - 1 £465 - 3
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 5 (100.00%) CMS
2 3 (60.00%) Umbraco
3 2 (40.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Contentful
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Umbraco Developer
3 2 (40.00%) CMS Developer
3 2 (40.00%) React Developer
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Next.js
2 3 (60.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Express.js
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
3 1 (20.00%) JSR 170
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) OSGi
3 1 (20.00%) React Native
3 1 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Jamstack
2 2 (40.00%) Webhook
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Personalization
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Sitecore
1 2 (40.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI