Headless CMS Job Trends in England

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Headless CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 707 603 730
Rank change year-on-year -104 +127 +1
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 27 41 41
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.029% 0.094% 0.056%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.66% 1.04% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18 23 33
10th Percentile £39,750 £40,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,375 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +13.82% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47,969 £77,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 -
UK median annual salary £43,125 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -38.39% +13.82% -12.14%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Headless 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,069 3,936 6,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.37% 9.04% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,983 2,795 4,816
10th Percentile £29,076 £29,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,101 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -4.63%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Headless CMS job vacancy trend in England

Headless CMS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Headless CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Headless CMS

Headless CMS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Headless CMS within the England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
East Midlands -19 10 £42,500 -20.93% 2
Midlands -29 10 £42,500 -39.29% 2
London -45 10 £76,250 +8.93% 6
North of England -53 4 £47,500 +18.75%
North West -15 2 £56,250 +40.63%
East of England - 2 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 -
South West -66 1 £42,500 -43.33% 3
Headless CMS
UK

Headless CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 27 (100.00%) CMS
2 4 (14.81%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Magento
2 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) GCP
3 6 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 5 (18.52%) GitHub
5 4 (14.81%) Contentful
5 4 (14.81%) Vercel
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (7.41%) Figma
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Algolia
7 1 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Claude Code
2 2 (7.41%) Gradle
2 2 (7.41%) Xcode
3 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Storybook
3 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (48.15%) Marketing
3 7 (25.93%) Retail
4 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) React Developer
5 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Business Development Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Business Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Development Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (7.41%) WordPress Developer
7 1 (3.70%) CMS Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior WordPress Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) React
2 9 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 5 (18.52%) Next.js
3 5 (18.52%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (14.81%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) HTML
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (7.41%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js
5 2 (7.41%) React Native
5 2 (7.41%) TanStack
5 2 (7.41%) Zustand
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.70%) Alpine.js
6 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.70%) REST
6 1 (3.70%) Sass
6 1 (3.70%) Svelte
6 1 (3.70%) Vue
6 1 (3.70%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Digital Media
1 6 (22.22%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (7.41%) Animation
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) PropTech
3 1 (3.70%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Analytics
2 9 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 9 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 8 (29.63%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (25.93%) AI
4 7 (25.93%) B2B
4 7 (25.93%) B2C
4 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.93%) Front End Development
4 7 (25.93%) Roadmaps
5 6 (22.22%) Business Case
5 6 (22.22%) Content Development
5 6 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
5 6 (22.22%) Data Enrichment
5 6 (22.22%) Personalization
5 6 (22.22%) Project Management
5 6 (22.22%) Regulatory Change
5 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
5 6 (22.22%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) TypeScript
2 6 (22.22%) C#
2 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Adobe
1 6 (22.22%) Google
1 6 (22.22%) Tealium
1 6 (22.22%) TikTok
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) WooCommerce