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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 225 237
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +52
Contract jobs citing CMS 75 110 220
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.84% 0.98%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.30% 6.79% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 77 167
10th Percentile £289 £224 £285
25th Percentile £352 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £579
90th Percentile £699 £623 £700
UK median daily rate £464 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.06% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £31.01 - £24.20
25th Percentile £31.40 £13.64 £26.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £14.34 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.50% -50.55% -58.57%
75th Percentile £32.15 £15.05 £32.00
90th Percentile £32.21 - £33.80
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £23.50 £17.34
% change year-on-year +34.04% +35.52% -75.23%

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 1,190 1,619 2,363
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.66% 12.30% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 1,172 1,634
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +2.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £700 £662
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £508
% change year-on-year -7.32% +0.94% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 72
10th Percentile £26.10 £15.46 £20.05
25th Percentile £31.40 £16.50 £22.49
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.81% -52.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65.25 £39.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.83 £76.63 £75.90
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £31.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +41.12% -39.60% +133.33%

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

CMS
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 3 August 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

CMS
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 15 (20.00%) Headless CMS
2 9 (12.00%) Umbraco
2 9 (12.00%) WordPress
3 7 (9.33%) Drupal
4 3 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (4.00%) CICS
5 2 (2.67%) EPiServer
5 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.33%) Confluence
6 1 (1.33%) SAS
6 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.67%) ProjectWise
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.33%) InDesign
2 1 (1.33%) InVision
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.33%) Sketch
2 1 (1.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Sage X3
2 3 (4.00%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (1.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.33%) AWS
2 6 (8.00%) Figma
2 6 (8.00%) Serverless
3 5 (6.67%) Azure
4 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.33%) Contentful
4 4 (5.33%) Miro
4 4 (5.33%) OCI
4 4 (5.33%) SaaS
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon Lightsail
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.67%) Canva
6 2 (2.67%) Contentsquare
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub
6 2 (2.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) Firewall
1 5 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (2.67%) Intranet
3 1 (1.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 3 (4.00%) Metadata
2 3 (4.00%) Power BI
3 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Easytrieve
4 1 (1.33%) Power Query
4 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.33%) ChangeMan
3 1 (1.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.67%) Marketing
3 9 (12.00%) Finance
3 9 (12.00%) Publishing
4 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.33%) General Ledger
6 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Games
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Billing
8 1 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) Developer
2 7 (9.33%) Project Manager
3 6 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (6.67%) Campaign Manager
4 5 (6.67%) CMS Project Manager
4 5 (6.67%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Content Editor
5 4 (5.33%) Senior
6 3 (4.00%) Angular Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Architect
6 3 (4.00%) Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Deployment Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Deployment Project Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Designer
6 3 (4.00%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.00%) Sage Specialist
6 3 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Umbraco Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Rollout Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.00%) React
2 10 (13.33%) Next.js
3 9 (12.00%) Vue
4 8 (10.67%) HTML
4 8 (10.67%) Node.js
5 7 (9.33%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.67%) CSS
7 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.33%) RESTful
8 3 (4.00%) .NET
9 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.67%) Apollo GraphQL
9 2 (2.67%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.67%) Express.js
9 2 (2.67%) Jest
9 2 (2.67%) OAuth
9 2 (2.67%) REST
10 1 (1.33%) React Native
10 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.33%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.00%) Learning Management System
5 3 (4.00%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.67%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.67%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (2.67%) Life Science
6 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.67%) Social Media
6 2 (2.67%) VSAM
7 1 (1.33%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.33%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.33%) FMCG
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Windows
3 4 (5.33%) AIX
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.33%) Agile
2 17 (22.67%) Content Management
3 12 (16.00%) DevOps
3 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (14.67%) Migration
5 9 (12.00%) Analytics
5 9 (12.00%) Front End Development
5 9 (12.00%) Project Management
6 8 (10.67%) CRM
6 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.67%) SEO
7 7 (9.33%) CI/CD
7 7 (9.33%) Decision-Making
7 7 (9.33%) E-Commerce
7 7 (9.33%) User Experience
8 6 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.00%) Scrum
8 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (6.67%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (6.67%) PHP
3 4 (5.33%) C#
3 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.00%) COBOL
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) JCL
5 2 (2.67%) Python
5 2 (2.67%) SQL
6 1 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Degree
2 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) APMG
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
2 3 (4.00%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) WCAG
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) CA Endevor
1 1 (1.33%) Grafana
1 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.00%) Adobe
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) Oracle
2 4 (5.33%) Sage
3 3 (4.00%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) Citrix
4 2 (2.67%) Facebook
4 2 (2.67%) Instagram
4 2 (2.67%) Twitter
4 2 (2.67%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.33%) Avaya
5 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.33%) IBM
5 1 (1.33%) Informatica
5 1 (1.33%) MKS
5 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.33%) Verint