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 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 111 111
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +53
Contract jobs citing CMS 7 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.38% 0.32% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.81% 3.87% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £529 £305 -
25th Percentile £553 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +22.22% -17.24%
75th Percentile £678 £631 £506
90th Percentile £706 £665 £594
England median daily rate £440 £455 £423
% change year-on-year -3.41% +7.69% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £29.36 £33.07 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.23% +74.05% -72.86%

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 249 155 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.42% 8.20% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 96 147
10th Percentile £275 £250 £259
25th Percentile £371 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £545
90th Percentile £588 £638 £629
England median daily rate £492 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -6.29% +0.72% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - £20.90 £17.35
25th Percentile £27.21 £28.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.55 £43.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.97% +138.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile £34.16 £60.25 £19.25
90th Percentile £34.65 £69.10 £19.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% - +97.67%

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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 3 October 2025.

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 3 October 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 +1 3 £613 - 4
Coventry -4 3 - - 4
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) CICS
2 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (14.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
2 1 (14.29%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ChangeMan
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Publishing
3 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
3 2 (28.57%) Automotive
3 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Games
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Content Editor
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Content Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
2 1 (14.29%) Web Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (28.57%) Time Management
1 2 (28.57%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) Personalization
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Optimizely
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Sitecore