Sitecore Contracts

Sitecore
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Sitecore products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sitecore over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sitecore.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 541 586
Rank change year-on-year +57 +45 +66
Contract jobs citing Sitecore 35 59 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.32% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 92
10th Percentile £314 £211 £300
25th Percentile £345 £220 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £313 £500
Median % change year-on-year +72.00% -37.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £523 £591
90th Percentile - £578 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £250 £488
% change year-on-year +120.00% -48.72% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £54.93
25th Percentile - - £57.30
Median hourly rate - £67.02 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.23% +53.66%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.02 £53.35
% change year-on-year - +25.62% +31.16%

All Vendors
UK

Sitecore falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

Sitecore
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sitecore in the UK

Sitecore
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sitecore in the UK

Sitecore
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Sitecore in the UK

Sitecore
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sitecore.

Hourly rate trend for Sitecore in the UK

Sitecore
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 Sitecore 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 +40 35 £538 +72.00% 36
London +28 25 £319 -37.80% 22
UK excluding London +42 10 £550 +120.00% 15
South East +47 6 £550 - 1
Work from Home +37 4 £413 +3.13% 12
North of England +27 3 £413 -1.49% 10
North West +9 2 £425 +1.49% 7
East of England +32 1 £650 -
Yorkshire - 1 £413 - 3

Sitecore
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 10 (28.57%) CMS
1 10 (28.57%) Sitecore CMS
2 7 (20.00%) Umbraco
3 4 (11.43%) WordPress
4 3 (8.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Drupal
5 2 (5.71%) Confluence
5 2 (5.71%) Headless CMS
6 1 (2.86%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (5.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (5.71%) Blender
1 2 (5.71%) CINEMA 4D
1 2 (5.71%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Shopify
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) BigCommerce
2 5 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Run
4 2 (5.71%) Datadog
4 2 (5.71%) Figma
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.86%) Asana
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.86%) Miro
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 3 (8.57%) Git
4 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.71%) Grunt
4 2 (5.71%) JMeter
4 2 (5.71%) Terragrunt
4 2 (5.71%) webpack
5 1 (2.86%) ESLint
5 1 (2.86%) GitLab
5 1 (2.86%) Gradle
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 19 (54.29%) Retail
2 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Marketing
4 7 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Finance
7 2 (5.71%) Advertising
7 2 (5.71%) Games
7 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Back Office
8 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 4 (11.43%) React Developer
4 3 (8.57%) .NET Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) GCP Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Umbraco Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Manager
5 2 (5.71%) CMS Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Designer
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (54.29%) VML
2 4 (11.43%) .NET
3 3 (8.57%) CSS
3 3 (8.57%) GraphQL
3 3 (8.57%) HTML
3 3 (8.57%) Next.js
3 3 (8.57%) Sass
4 2 (5.71%) CSS3
4 2 (5.71%) Framer.js
4 2 (5.71%) HTML5
4 2 (5.71%) Jest
4 2 (5.71%) LESS
4 2 (5.71%) Node.js
4 2 (5.71%) Semantic HTML
5 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.86%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.86%) React
5 1 (2.86%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) UIKit
5 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.71%) Animation
4 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) B2B
1 19 (54.29%) Customer Acquisition
2 13 (37.14%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) E-Commerce
4 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Time Management
7 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (17.14%) Project Management
7 6 (17.14%) User Experience
8 5 (14.29%) Customer Experience
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 5 (14.29%) Scrum
8 5 (14.29%) User Stories
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (11.43%) Migration
9 4 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Java
1 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.57%) C#
2 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
3 2 (5.71%) PHP
4 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.86%) Objective-C
4 1 (2.86%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) PMO
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.71%) Puppet
2 2 (5.71%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Adobe
1 21 (60.00%) Salesforce
2 19 (54.29%) SAP
3 5 (14.29%) Virgin Media
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) New Relic
5 1 (2.86%) OneTrust
5 1 (2.86%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Sun