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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 422 447
Rank change year-on-year +28 +25 +83
Contract jobs citing Content Management 136 170 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.46% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 109 179
10th Percentile £256 £198 £300
25th Percentile £354 £300 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% -10.40% -
75th Percentile £578 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +26.67% -21.05% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.64 £16.77
25th Percentile £21.53 £21.41 £18.33
Median hourly rate £32.05 £27.61 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% +4.17% -3.64%
75th Percentile £36.03 £32.03 £30.00
90th Percentile £43.00 £32.61 £50.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £19.38 £16.77
% change year-on-year +59.61% +15.53% -42.17%

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 27,473 37,081 49,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.12% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,374 23,644 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,294 2,582 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.56 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.92 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%

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 25 June 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 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Top 16 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 25 June 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 +41 106 £508 +6.84% 355
London +21 63 £525 +1.94% 170
UK excluding London +35 53 £475 +26.67% 194
Work from Home +22 33 £508 +13.28% 200
South East +58 20 £508 +35.33% 59
North of England +10 11 £500 +17.65% 47
Scotland -7 8 £338 +47.11% 3
Midlands +11 7 £450 +3.81% 38
North West +2 6 £429 -14.20% 26
West Midlands +3 5 £300 -30.80% 22
Northern Ireland - 4 £300 - 1
North East +2 3 £575 -11.54% 2
East of England +24 2 £350 - 24
Yorkshire -3 2 £412 +91.47% 19
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 14
South West +42 1 £170 -54.67% 21

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 58 (42.65%) CMS
2 33 (24.26%) SharePoint
3 13 (9.56%) Documentum
4 12 (8.82%) FileNet
5 7 (5.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (5.15%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (4.41%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (4.41%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (4.41%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (4.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (4.41%) Office Communications Server
6 6 (4.41%) Skype for Business
7 5 (3.68%) Drupal
7 5 (3.68%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (2.94%) Headless CMS
8 4 (2.94%) IIS
8 4 (2.94%) Umbraco
8 4 (2.94%) WordPress
9 2 (1.47%) EPiServer
Applications
1 18 (13.24%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (6.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (4.41%) Photoshop
5 5 (3.68%) InfoPath
6 3 (2.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.47%) Trello
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.74%) InDesign
8 1 (0.74%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.74%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.85%) AWS
2 17 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 15 (11.03%) Serverless
4 13 (9.56%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (9.56%) Azure
5 12 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (6.62%) Veeva
7 8 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.88%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.15%) Google Workspace
8 7 (5.15%) SaaS
8 7 (5.15%) ShareGate
9 6 (4.41%) Figma
9 6 (4.41%) Google Analytics
9 6 (4.41%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.68%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.94%) GCP
11 4 (2.94%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.21%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) DDNS
1 6 (4.41%) DHCP
1 6 (4.41%) DNS
1 6 (4.41%) Firewall
1 6 (4.41%) SAN
1 6 (4.41%) VPN
1 6 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.68%) VLAN
3 4 (2.94%) Intranet
4 2 (1.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.09%) Metadata
1 11 (8.09%) Power BI
2 3 (2.21%) GIS
3 2 (1.47%) Power Query
3 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.47%) Tableau
3 2 (1.47%) Tableau Server
4 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (10.29%) GitLab
2 6 (4.41%) JIRA
3 4 (2.94%) Git
4 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.74%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.74%) Hudson
5 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 52 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.38%) Marketing
3 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.56%) Finance
5 12 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.62%) Publishing
7 6 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.68%) Legal
8 5 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.21%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Banking
10 2 (1.47%) Billing
10 2 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
10 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.47%) International Banking
10 2 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (18.38%) Developer
2 16 (11.76%) Lead
3 12 (8.82%) Consultant
4 11 (8.09%) Analyst
4 11 (8.09%) Architect
4 11 (8.09%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.88%) Business Consultant
5 8 (5.88%) Documentum Developer
5 8 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
6 7 (5.15%) Designer
7 6 (4.41%) Content Designer
7 6 (4.41%) Exchange Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Exchange Support
7 6 (4.41%) Senior
7 6 (4.41%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) IT Support
9 4 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (2.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.03%) HTML
2 12 (8.82%) CSS
3 7 (5.15%) .NET
4 5 (3.68%) jQuery
5 4 (2.94%) REST
6 3 (2.21%) RESTful
6 3 (2.21%) SPFx
7 2 (1.47%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.47%) CSS3
7 2 (1.47%) HTML5
7 2 (1.47%) J2EE
7 2 (1.47%) Web Services
8 1 (0.74%) ADO
8 1 (0.74%) DOM
8 1 (0.74%) Flash
8 1 (0.74%) JSP
8 1 (0.74%) Servlets
8 1 (0.74%) SOAP
8 1 (0.74%) Struts
8 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.09%) Life Science
3 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.88%) Social Media
4 6 (4.41%) Replication
4 6 (4.41%) Taxonomies
5 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.21%) Acoustics
6 3 (2.21%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (2.21%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.97%) Windows
2 12 (8.82%) Linux
2 12 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.41%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.21%) Agile
2 29 (21.32%) User Experience
3 27 (19.85%) Migration
4 26 (19.12%) Analytics
5 24 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (11.03%) Change Management
7 15 (11.03%) Enterprise Content Management
8 14 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (10.29%) SEO
9 13 (9.56%) Project Management
10 12 (8.82%) Asset Management
11 11 (8.09%) Project Delivery
11 11 (8.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (7.35%) ITIL
12 10 (7.35%) Time Management
12 10 (7.35%) Workflow
13 8 (5.88%) Content Strategy
13 8 (5.88%) CRM
13 8 (5.88%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.29%) Java
1 14 (10.29%) JavaScript
2 12 (8.82%) Rust
3 11 (8.09%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.15%) C#
5 4 (2.94%) SQL
6 3 (2.21%) Python
7 1 (0.74%) Groovy
7 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.56%) Degree
3 10 (7.35%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.94%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) GxP
3 2 (1.47%) PMO
3 2 (1.47%) WCAG
4 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.41%) Brightmail
2 6 (4.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 12 (8.82%) Ansible
1 12 (8.82%) Terraform
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.65%) Adobe
3 20 (14.71%) Google
4 12 (8.82%) Oracle
4 12 (8.82%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.41%) SAP
6 4 (2.94%) Databricks
6 4 (2.94%) Facebook
6 4 (2.94%) Instagram
6 4 (2.94%) OpenText
6 4 (2.94%) Twitter
7 2 (1.47%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) Nintex
7 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.47%) YouTube
8 1 (0.74%) Ariba
8 1 (0.74%) Avaya
8 1 (0.74%) Genesys
8 1 (0.74%) Hyland