CMS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 113 163
Rank change year-on-year -28 +50 -11
Permanent jobs citing CMS 16 20 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 1.10% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.51% 9.95% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 33
10th Percentile - £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £24,000 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -17.65% +22.00%
75th Percentile £37,500 £37,813 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £44,900 £64,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -17.39%

All Application Platform Skills
East Midlands

CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 139 201 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.07% 11.05% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 120 145 255
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,500 £24,200
25th Percentile £29,188 £28,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £54,875 £43,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £69,250 £62,800 £58,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -11.31%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

CMS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

CMS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CMS in the East Midlands

CMS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -15 12 £24,500 -30.00%
Lincolnshire - 2 £85,000 - 1
Northamptonshire 0 1 £52,500 +53.28% 3
Leicestershire - 1 - - 2
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (6.25%) Contentsquare
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (6.25%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Games
3 5 (31.25%) Marketing
4 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Legal
5 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 3 (18.75%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Products Support Technician
1 6 (37.50%) Support Technician
2 3 (18.75%) SEO Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Site Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Content Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
1 2 (12.50%) Laravel
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
1 2 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (56.25%) User Experience
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
3 5 (31.25%) SEO
4 3 (18.75%) Content Management
4 3 (18.75%) Content Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
4 3 (18.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Digital Innovation
4 3 (18.75%) Information Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Line Management
4 3 (18.75%) Link Building
4 3 (18.75%) Online Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Statistics
4 3 (18.75%) Web Usability
5 2 (12.50%) API Development
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Botify
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft