Contentful Contracts

Contentful
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Contentful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contentful over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 590 675
Rank change year-on-year +80 +85 +127
Contract jobs citing Contentful 9 10 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.023% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.082% 0.071% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 24
10th Percentile £484 £436 £328
25th Percentile £508 £459 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £709 £553 £567
90th Percentile £745 £600 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £408 £413
% change year-on-year +16.56% -1.21% -21.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Contentful falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Contentful
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Contentful in the UK

Contentful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Contentful in the UK

Contentful
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contentful over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contentful in the UK

Contentful
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contentful within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +62 9 £563 +18.42% 46
London +34 8 £600 +26.32% 39
Work from Home +52 3 £730 +79.14% 15
UK excluding London +54 1 £475 +16.56% 10
North of England +28 1 £475 +16.56% 5
North West - 1 £475 - 3

Contentful
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 7 (77.78%) CMS
2 5 (55.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Contentstack
1 3 (33.33%) prismic.io
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Commercetools
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) CMS Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) CMS Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Rollout Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Rollout Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Development Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Development Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Development Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Web Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Web Marketing Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
1 2 (22.22%) Next.js
1 2 (22.22%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Express.js
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React Native
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (33.33%) Acoustics
2 3 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) B2C
1 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Content Management
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) B2B
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
4 1 (11.11%) A/B Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
4 1 (11.11%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Journey Map
4 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) OneTrust
1 1 (11.11%) Optimizely
1 1 (11.11%) SAP