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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 88 94
Rank change year-on-year -60 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing CMS 7 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.45% 1.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.72% 4.38% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £489 - £398
25th Percentile £528 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £200 £600
Median % change year-on-year +187.50% -66.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £606 - £688
90th Percentile £618 - -
England median daily rate £520 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +15.56% +9.09% -13.16%
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 £22.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +22.96% +16.47% -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 407 137 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.47% 10.33% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 78 105
10th Percentile £363 £209 £215
25th Percentile £417 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £465 £420
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% +10.71% -16.00%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £600
90th Percentile £575 £591 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.55 £14.94
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.88 £16.39
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% +2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £36.72 £20.24 £18.63
90th Percentile £68.93 £25.64 £18.95
England median hourly rate £27.21 £46.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -41.17% +85.00% +12.82%

CMS
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

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 March 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 12 March 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 - 4 £475 - 1
Birmingham -24 2 £600 +200.00% 5
Bilston - 1 £550 -
CMS
England

CMS
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 2 (28.57%) Umbraco
3 1 (14.29%) Drupal
3 1 (14.29%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) iTrent
1 1 (14.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Google Workspace
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Vite
General
1 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
1 3 (42.86%) Automotive
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Publishing
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Content Editor
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Laravel
2 1 (14.29%) LEMP Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
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%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Scorecard
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Telematics
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (14.29%) Vehicle Telematics
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce