CMS Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Content Management System (CMS)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring CMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CMS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.69% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £471 £350 £470
% change year-on-year +34.57% -25.53% +17.50%

All Application Platform Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 34 15 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 11.72% 10.27% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 12
10th Percentile £448 £361 £285
25th Percentile £525 £449 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £610 £351
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +74.04% -41.58%
75th Percentile £664 £632 £365
90th Percentile £726 £688 £399
South East median daily rate £510 £500 £433
% change year-on-year +2.00% +15.61% -12.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate £37.12 £15.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.47% -61.04% +73.74%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +47.27% +42.86% -31.86%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

CMS job vacancy trend in West Sussex

CMS
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CMS

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CMS

CMS
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Burgess Hill - 1 - - 1
Gatwick - 1 £650 - 1
CMS
South East

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) UX Design
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG