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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 451 486
Rank change year-on-year +44 +35 -70
Contract jobs citing Content Management 176 259 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 181 277
10th Percentile £198 £313 £276
25th Percentile £317 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £475 £451
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.26% +12.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £17.64 £16.77 £26.30
25th Percentile £21.41 £20.13 £34.42
Median hourly rate £27.61 £26.50 £47.95
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -44.73% +139.73%
75th Percentile £32.03 £32.50 £61.47
90th Percentile £32.61 £49.08 £69.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.38 £16.77 -
% change year-on-year +15.53% - -

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +26 144 £500 -4.76% 135
London +51 88 £516 -6.18% 54
UK excluding London +33 68 £375 -21.05% 87
Work from Home +44 66 £448 -15.07% 63
North of England +36 19 £388 -12.43% 21
Scotland +46 16 £179 -52.31% 6
Yorkshire +22 13 £215 -49.41% 8
Midlands +34 12 £525 +18.31% 13
West Midlands +26 12 £525 +18.31% 5
South East +13 12 £450 -28.00% 32
South West -2 8 £375 -9.09% 8
North West +22 5 £463 -6.09% 10
North East +16 1 £650 +20.93% 3
East of England +3 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
1 106 (60.23%) CMS
2 26 (14.77%) SharePoint
3 15 (8.52%) Drupal
4 11 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (5.11%) WordPress
6 8 (4.55%) Confluence
7 6 (3.41%) Headless CMS
8 3 (1.70%) Umbraco
9 2 (1.14%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.57%) Apache
10 1 (0.57%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.57%) IIS
10 1 (0.57%) Jadu
10 1 (0.57%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.57%) Liferay
10 1 (0.57%) Moodle
10 1 (0.57%) Papyrus
10 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Photoshop
2 11 (6.25%) Adobe Illustrator
2 11 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.41%) PTC Creo
5 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (1.70%) Acrobat
6 3 (1.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (1.70%) Windchill
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.84%) Magento
3 3 (1.70%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.70%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (1.14%) Workfront
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.93%) Azure
2 15 (8.52%) AWS
3 11 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.55%) GCP
5 7 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.41%) GitHub
7 5 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.27%) Contentful
8 4 (2.27%) Google Analytics
8 4 (2.27%) SaaS
8 4 (2.27%) Serverless
9 3 (1.70%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.70%) Contentstack
9 3 (1.70%) Figma
9 3 (1.70%) Google Docs
9 3 (1.70%) Miro
9 3 (1.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.23%) Intranet
2 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) Metadata
2 13 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.55%) Data Vault
4 8 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.55%) Pentaho
4 8 (4.55%) Power BI
4 8 (4.55%) Qlik Sense
4 8 (4.55%) QlikView
4 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.70%) Looker
5 3 (1.70%) OLAP
5 3 (1.70%) OLTP
6 1 (0.57%) Jackrabbit
6 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.57%) MySQL
6 1 (0.57%) Redis
6 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (8.52%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) kappa
3 1 (0.57%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) WiX
General
1 73 (41.48%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.59%) Public Sector
3 36 (20.45%) Marketing
4 28 (15.91%) Publishing
5 15 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.95%) Retail
7 13 (7.39%) Finance
7 13 (7.39%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.68%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.55%) Electronics
9 8 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.84%) French Language
10 5 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.27%) Banking
11 4 (2.27%) German Language
12 3 (1.70%) Back Office
13 2 (1.14%) Automotive
13 2 (1.14%) Games
13 2 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (19.89%) Developer
2 29 (16.48%) Senior
3 28 (15.91%) Architect
4 20 (11.36%) Designer
5 19 (10.80%) Content Designer
6 17 (9.66%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 11 (6.25%) Lead
8 8 (4.55%) Consultant
8 8 (4.55%) Technical Writer
9 7 (3.98%) Senior Software Developer
9 7 (3.98%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.41%) Analyst
10 6 (3.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.84%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.84%) Communications Manager
11 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Architect
11 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 5 (2.84%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.66%) HTML
2 11 (6.25%) .NET
3 9 (5.11%) XML
4 8 (4.55%) React
5 6 (3.41%) CSS
6 5 (2.84%) JSON
7 3 (1.70%) DHTML
7 3 (1.70%) Middleware
7 3 (1.70%) Web Services
8 2 (1.14%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.14%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.14%) ADO
8 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.14%) Flash
8 2 (1.14%) HTML5
8 2 (1.14%) REST
8 2 (1.14%) SOAP
9 1 (0.57%) Blazor
9 1 (0.57%) FHIR
9 1 (0.57%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.93%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.68%) Social Media
5 8 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.55%) Reference Data
5 8 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.27%) Handset
7 4 (2.27%) Taxonomies
7 4 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.70%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.14%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.14%) Life Science
9 2 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.14%) Wiki
10 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Android
2 4 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.55%) Agile
2 29 (16.48%) Analytics
2 29 (16.48%) User Experience
3 26 (14.77%) Project Management
4 24 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (13.64%) SEO
5 23 (13.07%) SDLC
6 20 (11.36%) Database Optimisation
7 19 (10.80%) Design Patterns
7 19 (10.80%) Software Engineering
8 18 (10.23%) Digital Marketing
8 18 (10.23%) Roadmaps
9 17 (9.66%) E-Commerce
10 16 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.95%) Content Strategy
11 14 (7.95%) Project Delivery
11 14 (7.95%) User Stories
12 13 (7.39%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (7.39%) Enterprise Architecture
12 13 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.32%) JavaScript
2 27 (15.34%) SQL
3 26 (14.77%) C#
4 25 (14.20%) Java
5 20 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.55%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.84%) Python
8 2 (1.14%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) C
9 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (21.02%) Degree
2 19 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.70%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.36%) Accessibility
2 17 (9.66%) PCI DSS
3 13 (7.39%) QA
4 6 (3.41%) WCAG
5 4 (2.27%) PMO
6 3 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.57%) DICOM
8 1 (0.57%) GDPR
8 1 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.57%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.57%) AppManager
Vendors
1 29 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.66%) Adobe
3 15 (8.52%) Google
4 10 (5.68%) SAP
4 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.55%) Informatica
5 8 (4.55%) Oracle
5 8 (4.55%) Sparx
6 6 (3.41%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.27%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.70%) Marketo
8 3 (1.70%) PTC
9 2 (1.14%) Instagram
9 2 (1.14%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.57%) Apple
10 1 (0.57%) Facebook
10 1 (0.57%) OpenText
10 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) TikTok
10 1 (0.57%) TSYS