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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 519 591
Rank change year-on-year +4 +72 +110
Contract jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 24 71 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.69% 1.60% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 50 47
10th Percentile £270 £300 £295
25th Percentile £352 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +5.16% -12.83%
75th Percentile £561 £694 £588
90th Percentile £642 £715 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -15.45% +10.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.73
25th Percentile - - £66.46
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £67.84
Median % change year-on-year - -18.92% +3.59%
75th Percentile - - £69.13
90th Percentile - - £69.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £67.84
% change year-on-year - -18.92% +0.71%

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 3,499 4,431 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 10.19% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,270 3,076 4,088
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £645
90th Percentile £713 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 160 159
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.35 £16.44 £21.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £31.91 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.60% -39.21% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +63.48% -31.30% +133.75%

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 3 July 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 9 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 3 July 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 +13 17 £500 -13.04% 30
London +35 11 £538 -9.51% 21
UK excluding London -1 10 £465 -15.45% 11
Work from Home +7 6 £475 -5.00% 10
Scotland -1 4 - -
East of England - 3 £303 - 2
North West +7 2 £429 -31.36% 1
North of England -2 2 £429 -39.58% 1
South East +21 1 £740 +71.59% 8

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 (29.17%) CMS
2 3 (12.50%) Documentum
3 2 (8.33%) Umbraco
4 1 (4.17%) Apache
4 1 (4.17%) Drupal
4 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
4 1 (4.17%) JBoss
4 1 (4.17%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
4 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Google Analytics
2 3 (12.50%) OCI
3 2 (8.33%) Contentsquare
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.17%) AppsFlyer
4 1 (4.17%) ChatGPT
4 1 (4.17%) Google Ads
4 1 (4.17%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) Looker
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Hudson
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Maven
2 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Publishing
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Billing
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Documentum Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Payments Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Business Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) CRM Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) IT Trainer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Product Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Product Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Veeva Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) CSS
2 4 (16.67%) HTML
3 3 (12.50%) J2EE
3 3 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) jQuery
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring MVC
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) Ajax
5 1 (4.17%) HTML5
5 1 (4.17%) JMS
5 1 (4.17%) JSP
5 1 (4.17%) JSR 170
5 1 (4.17%) OSGi
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) Servlets
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Struts
5 1 (4.17%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) iPhone
2 1 (4.17%) Life Science
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) AIX
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Analytics
2 8 (33.33%) Content Management
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 4 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 3 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Personalization
5 3 (12.50%) Process Management
5 3 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) SEO
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) GxP
2 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Adobe
2 5 (20.83%) Google
3 4 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Siebel
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Samsung
6 1 (4.17%) Sitecore
6 1 (4.17%) Sun