CMS Job Trends in the East of England

Content Management System (CMS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 158 171
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing CMS 21 16 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.32% 0.46% 0.82%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.98% 5.86% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 51
10th Percentile £49,500 - £26,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +26.47% -37.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £58,900 £55,000
England median annual salary £48,676 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.48% +5.56% -18.18%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 351 273 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.29% 7.86% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 260 211 457
10th Percentile £29,650 £29,625 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,438 £32,517 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £63,470
England median annual salary £50,051 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.00% +10.00% -11.50%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the East of England

CMS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CMS in the East of England

CMS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Hertfordshire -16 12 £68,750 +25.00% 1
Cambridgeshire -26 7 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Essex -18 1 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Norfolk - 1 £55,000 - 1
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.52%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (19.05%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) SaaS
4 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (9.52%) Figma
7 1 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (4.76%) AWS
7 1 (4.76%) Contentsquare
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (4.76%) Google Ads
7 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Looker
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.76%) Claude Code
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 16 (76.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Marketing
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Legal
3 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
4 4 (19.05%) Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Law
5 3 (14.29%) Retail
6 1 (4.76%) Games
6 1 (4.76%) German Language
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Marketing Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) IT Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) IT Support
2 4 (19.05%) IT Support Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Head of IT
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Content Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Content Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Content Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Digital Content Designer
5 1 (4.76%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) HTML
2 3 (14.29%) CSS
2 3 (14.29%) React
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) Vue
4 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) Django
4 1 (4.76%) Laravel
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Sass
4 1 (4.76%) SOAP
4 1 (4.76%) Svelte
4 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (4.76%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Smart City
2 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.76%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Android
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CRM
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (33.33%) Marketing Automation
4 6 (28.57%) B2B
5 5 (23.81%) Customer Acquisition
5 5 (23.81%) Customer Engagement
5 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
5 5 (23.81%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (23.81%) Demand Generation
5 5 (23.81%) Global Marketing
5 5 (23.81%) Logistics
5 5 (23.81%) Marketing Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) Pay per click
5 5 (23.81%) Project Management
5 5 (23.81%) Sales Enablement
5 5 (23.81%) Telesales
6 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
6 4 (19.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.52%) C#
2 2 (9.52%) PHP
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Adobe
2 5 (23.81%) Pardot
2 5 (23.81%) Salesforce
3 4 (19.05%) Apple
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.52%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Ahrefs