CMS Contracts in the West Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 91 116
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +52
Contract jobs citing CMS 4 23 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 1.12% 0.62%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.55% 13.69% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 9
10th Percentile £263 £314 £333
25th Percentile £356 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £631 £678 £530
90th Percentile £688 £688 £594
England median daily rate £461 £436 £425
% change year-on-year +5.91% +2.47% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £18.13 £17.92
% change year-on-year +60.00% +1.14% -76.11%

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 157 168 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.17% 8.15% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 116 186
10th Percentile £275 £213 £275
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £540
90th Percentile £600 £674 £597
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £34.10 £14.59 £12.63
25th Percentile £34.43 £15.65 £13.56
Median hourly rate £34.98 £16.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +118.63% +4.92% -10.29%
75th Percentile £47.80 £55.00 £17.06
90th Percentile £55.50 £67.00 £18.08
England median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £48.50
% change year-on-year +55.69% -33.78% +122.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the West Midlands

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the West Midlands

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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 5 July 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
Birmingham +2 3 £525 +38.89% 23
CMS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (25.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Asana
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Content Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Web Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Web Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Personalization
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Copywriting
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (25.00%) Sitecore