Content Management System (CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 312 339
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 -61
Contract jobs citing CMS 343 499 709
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.83% 0.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.28% 7.58% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 377 511
10th Percentile £206 £298 £319
25th Percentile £275 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £539 £590 £600
90th Percentile £641 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £410 £450
% change year-on-year -5.49% -8.89% +22.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 7
10th Percentile £12.90 £16.77 £21.86
25th Percentile - £17.75 £26.38
Median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +84.91%
75th Percentile £31.71 £23.75 £39.75
90th Percentile £32.70 £35.50 £53.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £16.77 £38.50
% change year-on-year -22.48% -56.44% +92.50%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +42 303 £425 -5.56% 228
London +79 181 £425 -12.82% 82
UK excluding London -5 131 £388 -5.49% 149
Work from Home -7 120 £438 -2.78% 114
North of England +23 31 £404 -5.00% 42
South West +30 29 £308 -20.65% 17
Midlands +21 23 £600 +52.87% 32
West Midlands +34 22 £600 +41.18% 13
North West +8 20 £388 -8.82% 25
Scotland +27 18 £179 -57.92% 7
South East -10 15 £491 +22.81% 40
East of England -20 15 £625 +18.71% 13
Yorkshire +18 10 £408 -6.32% 16
North East +20 1 £650 +20.93% 1
East Midlands +13 1 £410 +4.46% 19

CMS
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 32 (9.33%) Drupal
2 27 (7.87%) Headless CMS
3 21 (6.12%) Sitecore CMS
4 20 (5.83%) Umbraco
5 17 (4.96%) WordPress
6 16 (4.66%) SharePoint
7 13 (3.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (3.21%) Kentico
9 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (1.17%) Confluence
10 4 (1.17%) EPiServer
10 4 (1.17%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.87%) Jadu
12 2 (0.58%) Apache
12 2 (0.58%) IIS
12 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.29%) CoreMedia CMS
13 1 (0.29%) Joomla!
13 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 14 (4.08%) Photoshop
3 11 (3.21%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.75%) PTC Creo
5 3 (0.87%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.87%) Windchill
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.50%) Magento
2 4 (1.17%) SAP Hybris
3 3 (0.87%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.58%) Shopify
4 2 (0.58%) Workfront
5 1 (0.29%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 47 (13.70%) Azure
2 30 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (7.87%) AWS
4 15 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (4.37%) Azure Pipelines
4 15 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (3.79%) GCP
7 11 (3.21%) SaaS
7 11 (3.21%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 8 (2.33%) Contentful
9 6 (1.75%) Figma
10 5 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.46%) GitHub
10 5 (1.46%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.46%) PaaS
10 5 (1.46%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.83%) Intranet
2 6 (1.75%) DNS
2 6 (1.75%) HTTP
2 6 (1.75%) SSL
3 5 (1.46%) Internet
4 4 (1.17%) Skype
4 4 (1.17%) VPN
5 3 (0.87%) FTP
5 3 (0.87%) SMTP
6 2 (0.58%) Firewall
7 1 (0.29%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.17%) DB2
2 4 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.87%) Looker
3 3 (0.87%) Metadata
4 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.58%) Jackrabbit
4 2 (0.58%) MySQL
4 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.58%) Redis
4 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.29%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (10.50%) Git
2 26 (7.58%) JIRA
3 9 (2.62%) Selenium
4 8 (2.33%) webpack
5 7 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.17%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.87%) GitLab
9 3 (0.87%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.87%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.87%) Subversion
9 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.58%) gulp
10 2 (0.58%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.58%) rollup.js
10 2 (0.58%) Storybook
10 2 (0.58%) WiX
General
1 111 (32.36%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.29%) Marketing
3 38 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.75%) Publishing
5 24 (7.00%) Finance
6 18 (5.25%) Retail
7 16 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.33%) Back Office
8 8 (2.33%) Banking
9 7 (2.04%) French Language
9 7 (2.04%) Legal
9 7 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.46%) German Language
11 5 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.46%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 99 (28.86%) Developer
2 44 (12.83%) Senior
3 40 (11.66%) Analyst
4 27 (7.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 19 (5.54%) Architect
5 19 (5.54%) Designer
6 18 (5.25%) .NET Developer
6 18 (5.25%) Project Manager
6 18 (5.25%) Senior Developer
7 17 (4.96%) Content Designer
8 16 (4.66%) Consultant
8 16 (4.66%) SOC Analyst
9 14 (4.08%) Applications Support
9 14 (4.08%) Applications Support Analyst
9 14 (4.08%) Content Manager
9 14 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (4.08%) Project Analyst
9 14 (4.08%) Project Support Analyst
9 14 (4.08%) Support Analyst
10 13 (3.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.24%) HTML
2 60 (17.49%) CSS
3 50 (14.58%) React
4 44 (12.83%) .NET
5 22 (6.41%) .NET Core
6 18 (5.25%) ASP.NET
6 18 (5.25%) jQuery
7 16 (4.66%) GraphQL
8 14 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.79%) ASP.NET MVC
9 13 (3.79%) Node.js
10 11 (3.21%) REST
11 10 (2.92%) Vue
12 9 (2.62%) DOM
12 9 (2.62%) Laravel
12 9 (2.62%) Next.js
13 7 (2.04%) Entity Framework
13 7 (2.04%) GatsbyJS
13 7 (2.04%) JSON
13 7 (2.04%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.96%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.66%) Cyberattack
3 15 (4.37%) Social Media
4 13 (3.79%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (3.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (2.04%) EPoS
6 7 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.17%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.17%) Handset
8 4 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.87%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.87%) Graphic Design
9 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.87%) Life Science
9 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.96%) Linux
1 17 (4.96%) Windows
2 4 (1.17%) VMS
3 2 (0.58%) Android
3 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (32.36%) Content Management
2 82 (23.91%) Agile
3 59 (17.20%) User Experience
4 45 (13.12%) E-Commerce
5 44 (12.83%) SEO
6 42 (12.24%) DevOps
7 37 (10.79%) Analytics
8 36 (10.50%) Project Management
9 32 (9.33%) Scrum
10 31 (9.04%) Front End Development
10 31 (9.04%) Migration
11 30 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (8.16%) MVC
13 27 (7.87%) Web Development
14 25 (7.29%) Full Stack Development
15 22 (6.41%) Roadmaps
16 20 (5.83%) CRM
16 20 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (5.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.49%) JavaScript
2 34 (9.91%) C#
3 26 (7.58%) TypeScript
4 15 (4.37%) Java
5 14 (4.08%) Bicep
6 13 (3.79%) SQL
7 12 (3.50%) Python
8 9 (2.62%) PHP
9 4 (1.17%) COBOL
10 3 (0.87%) Perl
10 3 (0.87%) Ruby
10 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.58%) Bash
11 2 (0.58%) REXX
11 2 (0.58%) SELCOPY
12 1 (0.29%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.00%) Degree
3 9 (2.62%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 34 (9.91%) QA
3 21 (6.12%) WCAG
4 7 (2.04%) PMO
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.29%) DICOM
8 1 (0.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
8 1 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 18 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.46%) Docker
3 2 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.17%) Terraform
3 3 (0.87%) Ansible
3 3 (0.87%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.29%) AppManager
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 66 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.41%) Adobe
3 21 (6.12%) Sitecore
4 19 (5.54%) Splunk
5 16 (4.66%) Darktrace
5 16 (4.66%) FireEye
5 16 (4.66%) LogRhythm
6 14 (4.08%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.79%) Google
7 13 (3.79%) Optimizely
8 8 (2.33%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.04%) SAP
10 5 (1.46%) Marketo
11 4 (1.17%) Avaya
11 4 (1.17%) Becrypt
11 4 (1.17%) Citrix
11 4 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.17%) IBM
11 4 (1.17%) ICL