Content Management Contracts

Content Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Content Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Content Management over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 450 504
Rank change year-on-year +16 +54 -80
Contract jobs citing Content Management 166 254 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.51% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 179 273
10th Percentile £198 £300 £271
25th Percentile £300 £369 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% - +16.82%
75th Percentile £578 £597 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £463 £490
% change year-on-year -18.92% -5.52% +28.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile £17.64 £16.77 £22.12
25th Percentile £21.41 £18.33 £23.97
Median hourly rate £27.61 £26.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.92% +27.50%
75th Percentile £32.03 £30.00 £38.63
90th Percentile £32.61 £50.13 £60.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.38 £16.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.53% -32.92% +26.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Content Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 8 June 2024.

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 8 June 2024.

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 8 June 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 +18 134 £473 -5.45% 114
London +36 82 £515 -3.06% 42
UK excluding London +10 66 £375 -18.92% 75
Work from Home +42 55 £432 -17.45% 60
Scotland +51 19 £229 -38.82% 3
North of England +29 19 £388 -10.92% 18
Yorkshire +19 11 £215 -28.33% 7
South East -5 11 £375 -39.02% 23
Midlands +21 8 £434 -3.67% 17
West Midlands +12 8 £434 -3.67% 3
South West -8 8 £375 -6.25% 5
North West +18 7 £500 +3.09% 10
North East +12 1 £650 +20.93% 1
East of England -5 1 - - 7

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
1 101 (60.84%) CMS
2 28 (16.87%) SharePoint
3 14 (8.43%) Drupal
4 9 (5.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (5.42%) Confluence
5 8 (4.82%) WordPress
6 7 (4.22%) Headless CMS
7 3 (1.81%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.20%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.60%) Apache
9 1 (0.60%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.60%) IIS
9 1 (0.60%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.60%) Liferay
9 1 (0.60%) Moodle
9 1 (0.60%) Papyrus
9 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.60%) StreamWeaver
9 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (7.83%) Photoshop
2 12 (7.23%) Adobe Illustrator
3 11 (6.63%) MS Visio
4 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (3.61%) PTC Creo
6 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (1.81%) Acrobat
7 3 (1.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (1.81%) Windchill
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.60%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.01%) Magento
3 4 (2.41%) Workfront
4 3 (1.81%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.81%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.25%) Azure
2 14 (8.43%) AWS
2 14 (8.43%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.82%) GCP
5 6 (3.61%) Contentful
5 6 (3.61%) GitHub
6 5 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.01%) Contentstack
6 5 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.41%) Figma
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.81%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.81%) Google Docs
8 3 (1.81%) Miro
8 3 (1.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.24%) Intranet
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) Metadata
2 13 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.83%) Power BI
3 12 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.82%) Data Vault
4 8 (4.82%) Pentaho
4 8 (4.82%) Qlik Sense
4 8 (4.82%) QlikView
4 8 (4.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.01%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (3.01%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 5 (3.01%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.01%) Tableau
5 5 (3.01%) Tableau Server
6 4 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.20%) Looker
8 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.64%) JIRA
2 5 (3.01%) Git
General
1 60 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.70%) Public Sector
3 31 (18.67%) Marketing
4 28 (16.87%) Publishing
5 13 (7.83%) Manufacturing
6 12 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (7.23%) Finance
6 12 (7.23%) Retail
7 10 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (6.02%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.82%) Electronics
9 6 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.81%) Back Office
11 3 (1.81%) French Language
12 2 (1.20%) Automotive
12 2 (1.20%) Banking
12 2 (1.20%) German Language
12 2 (1.20%) Local Government
13 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (23.49%) Developer
2 34 (20.48%) Senior
3 22 (13.25%) Architect
4 20 (12.05%) Designer
4 20 (12.05%) Senior Developer
5 18 (10.84%) Content Designer
6 12 (7.23%) Lead
7 8 (4.82%) Data Architect
7 8 (4.82%) Technical Writer
8 7 (4.22%) Senior Content Designer
8 7 (4.22%) Senior Designer
8 7 (4.22%) Senior Software Developer
8 7 (4.22%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.61%) Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Consultant
9 6 (3.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (3.01%) Content Manager
10 5 (3.01%) Digital Content Manager
10 5 (3.01%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.01%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.24%) HTML
2 11 (6.63%) .NET
3 10 (6.02%) XML
4 8 (4.82%) React
5 7 (4.22%) CSS
6 5 (3.01%) JSON
7 3 (1.81%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.81%) DHTML
7 3 (1.81%) Middleware
7 3 (1.81%) Web Services
8 2 (1.20%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.20%) ADO
8 2 (1.20%) Flash
8 2 (1.20%) REST
8 2 (1.20%) SOAP
9 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.60%) jQuery
9 1 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.25%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.02%) Social Media
4 8 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.82%) Reference Data
4 8 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.41%) Graphic Design
6 4 (2.41%) Handset
6 4 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.41%) Wiki
7 3 (1.81%) Life Science
7 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.20%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.20%) Animation
8 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.20%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.20%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.01%) Android
2 4 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.72%) Agile
2 26 (15.66%) User Experience
3 22 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (13.25%) Project Management
3 22 (13.25%) SDLC
4 21 (12.65%) Analytics
4 21 (12.65%) SEO
5 20 (12.05%) Database Optimisation
6 19 (11.45%) Design Patterns
6 19 (11.45%) Software Engineering
7 18 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (10.24%) Digital Marketing
8 17 (10.24%) User Stories
9 16 (9.64%) Content Strategy
9 16 (9.64%) E-Commerce
10 14 (8.43%) Project Delivery
11 13 (7.83%) Data Modelling
11 13 (7.83%) Roadmaps
12 12 (7.23%) Scrum
12 12 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.48%) JavaScript
2 28 (16.87%) SQL
3 26 (15.66%) C#
4 25 (15.06%) Java
5 20 (12.05%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.82%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.01%) Python
8 2 (1.20%) Bicep
9 1 (0.60%) C
9 1 (0.60%) Perl
9 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (24.70%) Degree
2 19 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.81%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.65%) Accessibility
2 17 (10.24%) PCI DSS
3 12 (7.23%) QA
4 7 (4.22%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.61%) WCAG
6 4 (2.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.81%) PMO
8 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.60%) DICOM
9 1 (0.60%) GDPR
9 1 (0.60%) HL7
9 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.60%) AppManager
Vendors
1 27 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.04%) Adobe
2 15 (9.04%) SAP
3 13 (7.83%) Google
4 10 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.82%) Informatica
5 8 (4.82%) Oracle
5 8 (4.82%) Sparx
6 7 (4.22%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.41%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.81%) PTC
9 2 (1.20%) Marketo
9 2 (1.20%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.60%) Blackboard
10 1 (0.60%) Instagram
10 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.60%) OpenText
10 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Sitecore