Sitecore Contract Job Trends

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 18 December 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
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 514 530
Rank change year-on-year -49 +16 +94
Contract jobs citing Sitecore 32 30 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.088% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% 0.19% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 36
10th Percentile £400 £200 £341
25th Percentile £530 £250 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £554
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -16.48% +7.79%
75th Percentile £644 £558 £615
90th Percentile £725 £637 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +2.94%

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 17,283 15,622 19,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.24% 45.70% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,989 9,336 12,667
10th Percentile £293 £283 £253
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 464 671
10th Percentile £15.11 £15.62 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.87 £19.88
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%
75th Percentile £44.75 £61.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.75
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.39% +98.89%

Sitecore
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sitecore job vacancy trend in the UK

Sitecore
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Sitecore
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sitecore over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sitecore in the UK

Sitecore
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Sitecore
Top 13 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -38 29 £600 +29.73% 10
London -9 17 £553 +19.57% 5
UK excluding London -37 13 £600 - 7
Work from Home -9 8 £413 -10.52% 10
Midlands - 6 £600 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £600 -
South East -19 2 £713 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
North of England - 2 £425 - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £625 -
West Midlands - 1 £700 - 1
South West - 1 £413 -

Sitecore
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 20 (62.50%) CMS
1 20 (62.50%) Sitecore CMS
2 7 (21.88%) Drupal
3 6 (18.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Headless CMS
4 5 (15.63%) Umbraco
5 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.25%) Trello
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Shopify
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Contentful
2 9 (28.13%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Kontent
5 3 (9.38%) BigCommerce
6 2 (6.25%) Akamai
6 2 (6.25%) Asana
6 2 (6.25%) AWS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (3.13%) Salsify
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Metadata
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) Redis
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) NUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.13%) Storybook
3 1 (3.13%) Subversion
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Marketing
3 4 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 8 (25.00%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) React Developer
4 5 (15.63%) C# Developer
4 5 (15.63%) CMS Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Digital Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Sitecore Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Web Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Delivery Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Digital Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Web Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) .NET
2 10 (31.25%) React
3 9 (28.13%) VML
4 8 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 8 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 8 (25.00%) RESTful
5 6 (18.75%) AngularJS
5 6 (18.75%) CSS
5 6 (18.75%) HTML
6 4 (12.50%) Next.js
7 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (3.13%) EDI
7 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
7 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Taxonomies
2 5 (15.63%) Mobile App
3 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.13%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps
1 10 (31.25%) User Experience
2 8 (25.00%) MVC
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) AI
4 6 (18.75%) Domain Models
4 6 (18.75%) Personalization
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) Semantic Enrichment
5 5 (15.63%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
5 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
6 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.50%) Scrum
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
7 3 (9.38%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (9.38%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) C#
2 9 (28.13%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) C
4 1 (3.13%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) PHP
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Adobe
2 6 (18.75%) Optimizely
2 6 (18.75%) Salesforce
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) Marketo
4 3 (9.38%) OneTrust
4 3 (9.38%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft