Adobe Experience Manager Contracts

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) formerly Adobe CQ, Communiqué CQ5, Day CQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Adobe Experience Manager skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Adobe Experience Manager over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 533 628
Rank change year-on-year +37 +95 +73
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 23 67 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.70% 1.60% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 45 42
10th Percentile £326 £300 £413
25th Percentile £387 £406 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £527
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.46% -12.25%
75th Percentile £567 £675 £583
90th Percentile £661 £715 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £549 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +8.44% +1.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £41.05
25th Percentile - - £50.13
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -16.03% +2.96%
75th Percentile - - £68.01
90th Percentile - - £69.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £67.84
% change year-on-year - -18.92% +3.59%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Adobe Experience Manager 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Adobe Experience Manager as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Adobe Experience Manager in the UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Daily rate trend for Adobe Experience Manager in the UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Adobe Experience Manager in the UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Adobe Experience Manager in the UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +18 16 £530 -5.78% 19
London +20 14 £530 -10.77% 10
Work from Home +26 5 £563 +30.43% 9
UK excluding London +25 5 £549 +8.44% 8
Scotland +8 3 - -
South East +28 1 £740 +79.39% 2
North of England +22 1 £358 -49.58% 2
North West - 1 £358 - 2

Adobe Experience Manager
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (30.43%) CMS
2 3 (13.04%) Documentum
3 2 (8.70%) Drupal
3 2 (8.70%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (8.70%) WordPress
4 1 (4.35%) Apache
4 1 (4.35%) JBoss
4 1 (4.35%) Sitefinity
4 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Adobe Analytics
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) OCI
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) AppsFlyer
3 1 (4.35%) BigCommerce
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Google Ads
3 1 (4.35%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.35%) Looker
2 1 (4.35%) Metadata
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Hudson
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Marketing
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Publishing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Documentum Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Trainer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) CRM Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Designer
5 1 (4.35%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (4.35%) IT Trainer
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) CSS
2 4 (17.39%) HTML
2 4 (17.39%) J2EE
2 4 (17.39%) REST
3 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.04%) jQuery
3 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) Spring MVC
3 3 (13.04%) Web Services
4 2 (8.70%) Bootstrap
4 2 (8.70%) Sass
4 2 (8.70%) VML
5 1 (4.35%) Ajax
5 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.35%) JMS
5 1 (4.35%) JSP
5 1 (4.35%) Middleware
5 1 (4.35%) Servlets
5 1 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (4.35%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) iPhone
2 1 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) AIX
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Analytics
2 8 (34.78%) Content Management
3 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
4 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
5 3 (13.04%) Data Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
5 3 (13.04%) Front End Development
5 3 (13.04%) Integration Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) MVC
5 3 (13.04%) Process Management
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Campaign Management
6 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Adobe
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Siebel
3 3 (13.04%) Sitecore
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.70%) Sun
4 2 (8.70%) Virgin Media
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Samsung
5 1 (4.35%) SAP