CMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 224 274
Rank change year-on-year -2 +50 -51
Contract jobs citing CMS 122 288 425
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 1.10% 0.95%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.82% 9.68% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 225 338
10th Percentile £213 £313 £317
25th Percentile £363 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -10.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £509 £590 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £36.58
% change year-on-year -42.22% -38.48% +82.88%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

CMS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,561 2,974 5,470
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.10% 11.38% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 2,091 3,948
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £381 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.56% +9.15%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £613
90th Percentile £788 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 74 72
10th Percentile £16.39 £18.40 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.58 £22.16 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +57.14% +29.82%
75th Percentile £45.41 £69.69 £54.19
90th Percentile £70.75 £85.41 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £28.01 £40.00 £21.93
% change year-on-year -29.98% +82.40% -2.53%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CMS.

CMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CMS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

CMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CMS.

CMS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (11.48%) Headless CMS
2 9 (7.38%) Umbraco
2 9 (7.38%) WordPress
3 8 (6.56%) Kentico
4 7 (5.74%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (4.92%) Drupal
6 3 (2.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (2.46%) EPiServer
6 3 (2.46%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.64%) Confluence
7 2 (1.64%) Jadu
8 1 (0.82%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (2.46%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.46%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.82%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Magento
1 3 (2.46%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.64%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.13%) Azure
2 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.20%) AWS
4 9 (7.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (7.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (6.56%) Azure Pipelines
6 6 (4.92%) SaaS
7 5 (4.10%) GCP
7 5 (4.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 4 (3.28%) Contentstack
8 4 (3.28%) PaaS
8 4 (3.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) Amplience
9 3 (2.46%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.46%) Serverless
10 2 (1.64%) Figma
10 2 (1.64%) IaaS
10 2 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.64%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.10%) Intranet
2 2 (1.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.46%) DB2
3 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.82%) Jackrabbit
3 1 (0.82%) Looker
3 1 (0.82%) Metadata
3 1 (0.82%) Redis
3 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (13.93%) Git
2 11 (9.02%) JIRA
3 5 (4.10%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (4.10%) webpack
4 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.64%) GitLab
4 2 (1.64%) rollup.js
4 2 (1.64%) Storybook
4 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.64%) Vite
4 2 (1.64%) WiX
5 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.82%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.82%) Selenium
5 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.03%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.75%) Marketing
4 15 (12.30%) Publishing
5 8 (6.56%) Finance
5 8 (6.56%) Retail
6 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Back Office
7 4 (3.28%) French Language
7 4 (3.28%) German Language
8 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Local Government
9 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (40.16%) Developer
2 15 (12.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 13 (10.66%) Senior
4 12 (9.84%) Consultant
5 9 (7.38%) .NET Developer
5 9 (7.38%) Content Designer
5 9 (7.38%) Designer
6 8 (6.56%) Architect
6 8 (6.56%) Azure Developer
7 7 (5.74%) CMS Developer
7 7 (5.74%) React Developer
7 7 (5.74%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Content Editor
8 6 (4.92%) HTML Developer
8 6 (4.92%) JavaScript Developer
9 5 (4.10%) DevOps Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (4.10%) HTML CSS Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Umbraco Developer
10 4 (3.28%) E-Commerce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (28.69%) HTML
2 34 (27.87%) CSS
3 25 (20.49%) React
4 23 (18.85%) .NET
5 13 (10.66%) .NET Core
6 11 (9.02%) ASP.NET
7 10 (8.20%) GraphQL
8 9 (7.38%) jQuery
9 8 (6.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (6.56%) Node.js
10 7 (5.74%) DOM
11 6 (4.92%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.92%) Laravel
12 5 (4.10%) GatsbyJS
12 5 (4.10%) JSON
12 5 (4.10%) REST
13 4 (3.28%) Express.js
13 4 (3.28%) Vue
14 3 (2.46%) .NET Framework
14 3 (2.46%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.56%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.28%) Social Media
4 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.64%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.64%) Handset
5 2 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.82%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.82%) IVR
6 1 (0.82%) Life Science
6 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.82%) NHS
6 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.82%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.46%) VMS
2 2 (1.64%) Android
2 2 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.61%) Agile
2 40 (32.79%) Content Management
3 22 (18.03%) DevOps
4 19 (15.57%) SEO
5 17 (13.93%) Front End Development
6 16 (13.11%) Analytics
6 16 (13.11%) MVC
6 16 (13.11%) User Experience
7 15 (12.30%) E-Commerce
8 14 (11.48%) Full Stack Development
8 14 (11.48%) Migration
8 14 (11.48%) Scrum
9 13 (10.66%) Web Development
10 12 (9.84%) Clean Code
10 12 (9.84%) Content Strategy
11 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.20%) B2C
12 10 (8.20%) Software Engineering
13 9 (7.38%) Project Management
13 9 (7.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (27.87%) JavaScript
2 18 (14.75%) C#
3 15 (12.30%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.56%) Bicep
5 7 (5.74%) SQL
6 6 (4.92%) Java
7 5 (4.10%) PHP
8 3 (2.46%) COBOL
9 2 (1.64%) Perl
9 2 (1.64%) Python
9 2 (1.64%) REXX
9 2 (1.64%) Ruby
9 2 (1.64%) SELCOPY
10 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.20%) Degree
2 6 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.46%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.57%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.84%) QA
3 10 (8.20%) WCAG
4 4 (3.28%) PMO
5 3 (2.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.82%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.28%) Docker
3 2 (1.64%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.64%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.82%) AppManager
Vendors
1 14 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.38%) Adobe
3 7 (5.74%) Optimizely
3 7 (5.74%) Sitecore
4 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.46%) IBM
5 3 (2.46%) ICL
5 3 (2.46%) SAP
5 3 (2.46%) WooCommerce
6 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.64%) Google
6 2 (1.64%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.64%) Pega
6 2 (1.64%) Splunk
6 2 (1.64%) Syncsort
7 1 (0.82%) Avaya
7 1 (0.82%) Marketo
7 1 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow