Headless CMS Contracts

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Headless CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Headless CMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 679 799
Rank change year-on-year +108 +120 -161
Contract jobs citing Headless CMS 27 40 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.067% 0.056%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.65% 0.61% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 42
10th Percentile £396 £364 £402
25th Percentile £422 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £544 £663 £600
90th Percentile £611 £700 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £700 £438
% change year-on-year -28.57% +59.82% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Headless CMS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Top 9 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 27 April 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 +115 22 £500 -2.44% 14
London +95 15 £488 -2.50% 3
Work from Home +120 14 £500 +5.26% 11
UK excluding London +65 7 £500 -28.57% 11
North of England - 3 £500 - 1
North West - 3 £500 -
West Midlands +31 2 - - 2
Midlands +24 2 - - 3
South East +23 2 - - 5

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 27 (100.00%) CMS
2 7 (25.93%) Kentico
3 2 (7.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
1 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.11%) Contentstack
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Amplience
4 1 (3.70%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Contentful
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Looker
2 1 (3.70%) Jackrabbit
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (11.11%) webpack
4 2 (7.41%) gulp
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.81%) Banking
1 4 (14.81%) Retail
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Marketing
2 3 (11.11%) Publishing
3 2 (7.41%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript Developer
2 8 (29.63%) React Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (22.22%) CMS Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Azure Developer
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps Developer
5 5 (18.52%) HTML CSS Developer
5 5 (18.52%) HTML Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Web Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Backend Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Consultant
7 2 (7.41%) Content Designer
7 2 (7.41%) Designer
7 2 (7.41%) E-Commerce Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Architect
8 1 (3.70%) CMS Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Content Editor
8 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) HTML
2 14 (51.85%) CSS
2 14 (51.85%) React
3 13 (48.15%) GraphQL
4 7 (25.93%) DOM
4 7 (25.93%) GatsbyJS
5 4 (14.81%) Next.js
6 3 (11.11%) HTML5
6 3 (11.11%) Vue
7 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.41%) Apache Sling
7 2 (7.41%) Express.js
7 2 (7.41%) Jest
7 2 (7.41%) JSON
7 2 (7.41%) Node.js
7 2 (7.41%) Nunjucks
7 2 (7.41%) Nuxt
7 2 (7.41%) OSGi
7 2 (7.41%) RESTful
7 2 (7.41%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Acoustics
1 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) DevOps
1 7 (25.93%) E-Commerce
1 7 (25.93%) SEO
1 7 (25.93%) User Experience
2 6 (22.22%) Agile
2 6 (22.22%) Content Management
2 6 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
3 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.81%) Web Development
4 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 3 (11.11%) Content Strategy
4 3 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) UX Design
5 2 (7.41%) CRM
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Content Management
5 2 (7.41%) Scrum
5 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.11%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Google
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Adobe
2 1 (3.70%) Optimizely