Headless CMS Contracts

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 541 646
Rank change year-on-year +31 +105 +179
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 38 44 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.065%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.07% 0.99% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 28 29
10th Percentile £404 £409 £337
25th Percentile £409 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £583 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +16.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £700
90th Percentile £623 £627 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -5.00% -28.57% +74.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Headless CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,537 4,453 6,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 10.28% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,292 3,096 4,140
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £643
90th Percentile £717 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 157 163
10th Percentile £17.56 £13.51 £16.32
25th Percentile £26.39 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.69% -38.83% +130.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.74 £74.18 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £33.56 £46.75
% change year-on-year +56.45% -28.22% +133.75%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Headless CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +49 36 £440 -26.13% 76
London +32 28 £409 -31.83% 51
Work from Home +25 14 £440 -23.57% 44
UK excluding London +46 5 £475 -5.00% 31
South East +42 3 £550 - 9
North West +6 1 £475 -5.00% 12
North of England +1 1 £475 -5.00% 16
East of England - 1 £465 -

Headless CMS
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 38 (100.00%) CMS
2 3 (7.89%) Umbraco
3 2 (5.26%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (5.26%) WordPress
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.63%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Serverless
3 6 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure
5 4 (10.53%) Contentful
5 4 (10.53%) Contentstack
6 3 (7.89%) prismic.io
7 2 (5.26%) GCP
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.63%) Figma
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub
8 1 (2.63%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (21.05%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.53%) Marketing
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Publishing
4 2 (5.26%) Games
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (63.16%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (15.79%) Angular Developer
4 5 (13.16%) CMS Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Designer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (7.89%) React Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Umbraco Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Architect
7 2 (5.26%) CMS Project Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Programme Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (65.79%) Next.js
2 21 (55.26%) React
3 15 (39.47%) AngularJS
4 13 (34.21%) Vue
5 6 (15.79%) OAuth
6 5 (13.16%) OAuth2
6 5 (13.16%) OpenID
6 5 (13.16%) SAML
7 4 (10.53%) CSS
7 4 (10.53%) GraphQL
7 4 (10.53%) HTML
8 3 (7.89%) Jest
8 3 (7.89%) Node.js
8 3 (7.89%) REST
9 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
9 1 (2.63%) Apollo GraphQL
9 1 (2.63%) Nuxt
9 1 (2.63%) Playwright
9 1 (2.63%) Redux
9 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Acoustics
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) Life Science
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Decision-Making
2 13 (34.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (26.32%) Front End Development
4 7 (18.42%) Migration
5 6 (15.79%) Agile
5 6 (15.79%) E-Commerce
5 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.16%) DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.53%) Analytics
7 4 (10.53%) B2C
7 4 (10.53%) Content Management
7 4 (10.53%) Customer Experience
7 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.53%) SEO
7 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (10.53%) User Experience
7 4 (10.53%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Google
2 2 (5.26%) Sitecore
2 2 (5.26%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe
3 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.63%) IBM
3 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.63%) OpenAI