CMS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 99 103
Rank change year-on-year -29 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing CMS 7 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.02% 5.07% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £476 £539 £441
25th Percentile £497 £559 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +32.43% -6.33%
75th Percentile £572 £659 £519
90th Percentile £589 £676 £530
England median daily rate £452 £450 £423
% change year-on-year +0.50% +6.51% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.16
25th Percentile - - £17.22
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £17.38
75th Percentile - - £17.47
90th Percentile - - £17.49
England median hourly rate £27.21 £62.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.46% +228.95% -15.56%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 347 138 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.30% 8.75% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 84 91
10th Percentile £321 £210 £213
25th Percentile £420 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +11.18% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £541 £616
90th Percentile £588 £626 £680
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £18.69 £16.55 £17.39
25th Percentile - £16.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% -1.37% +21.79%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile £57.38 £25.64 £19.40
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -35.98% +77.08% +36.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CMS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CMS

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Coventry - 5 £475 - 2
Birmingham - 2 £600 - 3
CMS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) CICS
2 1 (14.29%) Drupal
2 1 (14.29%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) iTrent
1 1 (14.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ChangeMan
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
2 3 (42.86%) Automotive
2 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Publishing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Content Editor
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
1 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Management
1 3 (42.86%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Scorecard
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Telematics
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP