CMS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 224 228
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +53
Contract jobs citing CMS 83 121 279
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.79% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.35% 7.76% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 86 218
10th Percentile £269 £213 £313
25th Percentile £350 £363 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -1.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £597 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £25.40
25th Percentile - - £29.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - £39.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £13.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +118.50% -42.22% -32.91%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

CMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing CMS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 16 (19.28%) Headless CMS
2 12 (14.46%) WordPress
3 10 (12.05%) Drupal
4 6 (7.23%) Umbraco
5 5 (6.02%) Confluence
6 4 (4.82%) Apache
7 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
8 2 (2.41%) CICS
8 2 (2.41%) EPiServer
9 1 (1.20%) Joomla!
9 1 (1.20%) Magnolia
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (1.20%) Sitefinity
9 1 (1.20%) Strapi
9 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Trello
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.20%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Sage X3
2 1 (1.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) AWS
2 9 (10.84%) Figma
3 6 (7.23%) Azure
3 6 (7.23%) GitHub
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.82%) OCI
4 4 (4.82%) Serverless
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon Lightsail
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (3.61%) Contentful
5 3 (3.61%) DigitalOcean
5 3 (3.61%) Google Workspace
5 3 (3.61%) Heroku
5 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.61%) Slack
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.41%) GCP
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Internet
2 3 (3.61%) DNS
2 3 (3.61%) Intranet
3 2 (2.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.20%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.20%) Softphone
4 1 (1.20%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.20%) VoIP
4 1 (1.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) MySQL
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Power BI
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Power Query
6 1 (1.20%) DB2
6 1 (1.20%) Looker
6 1 (1.20%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) JIRA
2 7 (8.43%) Git
3 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.20%) GitLab
5 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.20%) Postman
General
1 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Marketing
3 10 (12.05%) Finance
4 8 (9.64%) Publishing
5 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Games
8 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Local Government
9 1 (1.20%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (28.92%) Developer
2 8 (9.64%) Project Manager
3 7 (8.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (7.23%) CMS Project Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Analyst
5 5 (6.02%) Designer
5 5 (6.02%) Senior
5 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Architect
6 4 (4.82%) Consultant
6 4 (4.82%) Content Editor
6 4 (4.82%) Deployment Manager
6 4 (4.82%) Deployment Project Manager
6 4 (4.82%) Digital Director
6 4 (4.82%) IT Director
6 4 (4.82%) PHP Software Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Angular Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) React Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Sage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) CSS
2 14 (16.87%) HTML
2 14 (16.87%) React
3 10 (12.05%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.84%) Next.js
4 9 (10.84%) Node.js
5 6 (7.23%) Tailwind CSS
5 6 (7.23%) Web Services
6 5 (6.02%) Ajax
6 5 (6.02%) Bootstrap
6 5 (6.02%) GraphQL
6 5 (6.02%) jQuery
6 5 (6.02%) Vue
7 4 (4.82%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (4.82%) LAMP
7 4 (4.82%) SOAP
8 3 (3.61%) Laravel
8 3 (3.61%) Middleware
8 3 (3.61%) REST
8 3 (3.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.82%) Legacy Code
2 4 (4.82%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (3.61%) Life Science
3 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.61%) Social Media
3 3 (3.61%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.41%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.41%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.41%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.41%) VSAM
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.20%) IVR
5 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.25%) Linux
2 6 (7.23%) Windows
3 4 (4.82%) AIX
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (4.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.12%) Agile
2 24 (28.92%) Content Management
3 16 (19.28%) Analytics
3 16 (19.28%) Migration
4 14 (16.87%) User Experience
5 13 (15.66%) CRM
6 12 (14.46%) Project Management
7 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.05%) DevOps
8 10 (12.05%) E-Commerce
8 10 (12.05%) Front End Development
9 9 (10.84%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.84%) SEO
9 9 (10.84%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.64%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.64%) Design Patterns
10 8 (9.64%) Scrum
10 8 (9.64%) UX Design
11 6 (7.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.07%) JavaScript
2 11 (13.25%) PHP
3 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.43%) Java
5 2 (2.41%) C#
5 2 (2.41%) Python
5 2 (2.41%) REXX
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
1 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.20%) APMG
3 1 (1.20%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.82%) WCAG
3 3 (3.61%) GDPR
4 2 (2.41%) PMO
4 2 (2.41%) QA
5 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.20%) Grafana
1 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.20%) OfficeScan
1 1 (1.20%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Sage
3 6 (7.23%) Google
4 5 (6.02%) Oracle
5 4 (4.82%) Zend
6 3 (3.61%) Adobe
7 2 (2.41%) Facebook
7 2 (2.41%) Instagram
7 2 (2.41%) Optimizely
7 2 (2.41%) Twitter
7 2 (2.41%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.20%) Avaya
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco
8 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.20%) IBM
8 1 (1.20%) Informatica
8 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.20%) NetApp
8 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.20%) Verint