Content Management Contracts

Content Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Content Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 390 465
Rank change year-on-year -2 +75 +17
Contract jobs citing Content Management 129 194 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.52% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 123 177
10th Percentile £200 £198 £313
25th Percentile £390 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £564 £594 £610
90th Percentile £647 £725 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 £429 £493
% change year-on-year -17.53% -12.84% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £21.45 £19.31 £16.77
25th Percentile £24.76 £24.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.80 £29.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +29.67% -52.55%
75th Percentile £32.05 £32.30 £30.00
90th Percentile - £32.75 £43.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.80 £19.38 £19.64
% change year-on-year +53.81% -1.32% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Content Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +1 108 £515 -0.58% 252
London +13 77 £525 - 128
UK excluding London +30 41 £354 -17.53% 147
Work from Home +12 39 £515 +14.96% 159
South East +49 14 £508 +12.78% 51
Scotland +10 11 £325 +81.74% 4
North of England +4 11 £358 -25.61% 30
North West +16 9 £358 -28.40% 17
South West +42 4 £177 -52.93% 21
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Midlands +7 1 £200 -64.91% 23
West Midlands +2 1 £200 -61.90% 12
North East 0 1 £350 -46.15% 3
Yorkshire -6 1 £538 +90.27% 11

Content Management
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 66 (51.16%) CMS
2 24 (18.60%) SharePoint
3 10 (7.75%) Drupal
4 8 (6.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (4.65%) Documentum
5 6 (4.65%) Umbraco
6 5 (3.88%) FileNet
6 5 (3.88%) Headless CMS
6 5 (3.88%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (3.88%) WordPress
7 4 (3.10%) IIS
7 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (3.10%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (2.33%) Office Communications Server
8 3 (2.33%) Skype for Business
9 2 (1.55%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.88%) InfoPath
4 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.33%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (2.33%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.55%) Trello
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.78%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.60%) Azure
2 15 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 13 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.30%) AWS
5 10 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.20%) Figma
6 8 (6.20%) ShareGate
7 7 (5.43%) Google Workspace
7 7 (5.43%) Serverless
8 6 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.65%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.65%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.88%) OneDrive
10 4 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.10%) Google Analytics
11 3 (2.33%) GCP
11 3 (2.33%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.43%) Firewall
1 7 (5.43%) Intranet
1 7 (5.43%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.88%) VLAN
3 3 (2.33%) DDNS
3 3 (2.33%) DHCP
3 3 (2.33%) DNS
3 3 (2.33%) SAN
3 3 (2.33%) VPN
4 2 (1.55%) Internet
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.78%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.78%) Softphone
5 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.78%) VoIP
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.98%) Power BI
2 5 (3.88%) Metadata
3 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (3.10%) Tableau
3 4 (3.10%) Tableau Server
4 2 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.55%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 2 (1.55%) GIS
4 2 (1.55%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.55%) Power Query
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) Looker
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) GitLab
2 4 (3.10%) Git
2 4 (3.10%) JIRA
3 1 (0.78%) Hudson
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Postman
3 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 52 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.05%) Marketing
3 16 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.63%) Finance
5 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.75%) Back Office
7 8 (6.20%) Publishing
8 6 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.33%) Banking
11 3 (2.33%) Legal
11 3 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.55%) Billing
12 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.55%) International Banking
12 2 (1.55%) Local Government
12 2 (1.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (14.73%) Developer
2 16 (12.40%) Lead
3 12 (9.30%) Architect
3 12 (9.30%) Project Manager
4 11 (8.53%) Designer
5 10 (7.75%) Analyst
5 10 (7.75%) Senior
5 10 (7.75%) Technical Leader
6 8 (6.20%) Content Designer
7 5 (3.88%) Communications Manager
7 5 (3.88%) IT Support
8 4 (3.10%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Junior
8 4 (3.10%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.10%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.33%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.33%) IT Manager
9 3 (2.33%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) .NET
2 13 (10.08%) HTML
3 11 (8.53%) CSS
4 3 (2.33%) Bootstrap
4 3 (2.33%) jQuery
4 3 (2.33%) REST
5 2 (1.55%) CSS3
5 2 (1.55%) HTML5
5 2 (1.55%) J2EE
5 2 (1.55%) RESTful
5 2 (1.55%) Web Services
6 1 (0.78%) ADO
6 1 (0.78%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.78%) DOM
6 1 (0.78%) JMS
6 1 (0.78%) JSP
6 1 (0.78%) Servlets
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
6 1 (0.78%) Struts
6 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.65%) Social Media
5 5 (3.88%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.10%) Digital Media
6 4 (3.10%) Life Science
6 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.10%) Replication
6 4 (3.10%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.33%) Acoustics
7 3 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (2.33%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.55%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.55%) Photography
8 2 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.95%) Windows
2 6 (4.65%) Linux
3 5 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.88%) Agile
2 32 (24.81%) User Experience
3 25 (19.38%) Migration
4 21 (16.28%) Project Management
5 18 (13.95%) Analytics
6 15 (11.63%) Change Management
6 15 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.63%) SEO
6 15 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (10.85%) Asset Management
7 14 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (10.08%) DevOps
9 12 (9.30%) OO
9 12 (9.30%) OOD
9 12 (9.30%) Project Delivery
9 12 (9.30%) UX Design
10 11 (8.53%) Clean Code
10 11 (8.53%) TDD
10 11 (8.53%) Time Management
11 10 (7.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.83%) JavaScript
2 18 (13.95%) Java
2 18 (13.95%) PowerShell
3 15 (11.63%) C#
4 13 (10.08%) SQL
5 5 (3.88%) Rust
6 2 (1.55%) PHP
7 1 (0.78%) Groovy
7 1 (0.78%) Python
7 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (10.85%) Degree
2 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.85%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.43%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.33%) GDPR
3 3 (2.33%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) WCAG
4 2 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.55%) PMO
5 1 (0.78%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.33%) Brightmail
2 3 (2.33%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.88%) Ansible
1 5 (3.88%) Terraform
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.78%) OfficeScan
3 1 (0.78%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 33 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.18%) Google
3 15 (11.63%) Adobe
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) SAP
6 4 (3.10%) Databricks
6 4 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.55%) Facebook
7 2 (1.55%) Instagram
7 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.55%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.55%) Twitter
8 1 (0.78%) Aruba
8 1 (0.78%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.78%) Cvent
8 1 (0.78%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.78%) Marketo
8 1 (0.78%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.78%) YouTube