Sitecore CMS Contract Job Trends

Sitecore CMS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sitecore CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 533 544
Rank change year-on-year -126 +11 +92
Contract jobs citing Sitecore CMS 15 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.037% 0.034%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.32% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 10
10th Percentile - £329 £199
25th Percentile £312 £350 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £488 £469
Median % change year-on-year -33.44% +4.00% +35.87%
75th Percentile £365 £575 £541
90th Percentile £382 £725 £604
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £488 -
% change year-on-year -33.44% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Sitecore 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 4,649 3,601 4,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 10.95% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 2,349 2,832
10th Percentile £300 £281 £280
25th Percentile £404 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £721 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +2.78% -3.90% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 88 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £25.94 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +29.07% -31.77%
75th Percentile £60.08 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.86 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.19% -0.81% +56.52%

Sitecore CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sitecore CMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Sitecore CMS job vacancy trend in the UK

Sitecore CMS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sitecore CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sitecore CMS

Sitecore CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sitecore CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sitecore CMS

Sitecore CMS
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sitecore CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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 -129 15 £325 -33.44% 5
London -64 11 - - 2
UK excluding London -107 4 £325 -33.44% 4
South West - 3 £325 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £325 - 4
Yorkshire -44 1 £388 -13.89%
North of England -81 1 £388 -13.89% 1

Sitecore CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (100.00%) CMS
2 8 (53.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (26.67%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Shopify
2 3 (20.00%) Magento
2 3 (20.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Adobe Analytics
1 8 (53.33%) Google Analytics
2 4 (26.67%) Siteimprove
3 3 (20.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) Contentstack
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Marketing
3 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Publishing
5 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Developer
1 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketer
1 2 (13.33%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (6.67%) React Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (6.67%) Next.js
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Content Management
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) Analytics
3 8 (53.33%) Personalization
3 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
4 7 (46.67%) Project Management
5 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (40.00%) Customer Experience
6 5 (33.33%) CRM
7 4 (26.67%) A/B Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (26.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (26.67%) Campaign Management
7 4 (26.67%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
7 4 (26.67%) Data Science
7 4 (26.67%) Performance Analysis
7 4 (26.67%) Performance Measurement
7 4 (26.67%) Validation
7 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
7 4 (26.67%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Sitecore
2 8 (53.33%) Adobe
2 8 (53.33%) Amplitude
2 8 (53.33%) Google
2 8 (53.33%) Optimizely
2 8 (53.33%) Tealium
3 4 (26.67%) Braze
4 3 (20.00%) SAP
5 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft