Content Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Content Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Content Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Management over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 99 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 +31
Contract jobs citing Content Management 3 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.53% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.63% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £350 £365
25th Percentile - £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £502 £450
Median % change year-on-year -60.14% +11.50% -
75th Percentile - £586 £472
90th Percentile - £587 £474
England median daily rate £508 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Content Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,219 1,577 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.91% 83.40% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 1,053 1,333
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% +6.12%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 114 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.49 £14.03 £13.87
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £28.18 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in the West Midlands

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Content Management in the West Midlands

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Management in the West Midlands

Content Management
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 Content Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +4 1 £200 -47.09% 13
Warwickshire -9 1 - -
Content Management
England

Content Management
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 2 (66.67%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Content Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Copywriting
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Personalization
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenText