Headless CMS Jobs in England

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Headless CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Headless CMS over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 783 806
Rank change year-on-year +119 +23 +123
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 37 60 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.066% 0.077%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.88% 0.69% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 19 53 40
10th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £46,693
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -14.58% -7.10%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year +13.82% -14.58% -7.10%

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 4,210 8,676 8,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.00% 9.55% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,812 6,435 6,665
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,050 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -11.50% +2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,772 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% -

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Headless CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Headless CMS in England.

Salary trend for Headless CMS in England

Headless CMS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

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 10 July 2025. 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
London +110 21 £72,500 -23.68% 19
Midlands +77 5 £70,000 +86.67% 1
North of England +38 5 £47,500 -8.65% 3
North West +19 5 £47,500 -8.65% 2
South West +90 4 £75,000 +21.95% 2
West Midlands +58 3 £75,000 +114.29% 1
South East +54 2 £48,750 -20.73% 3
East Midlands +43 2 £53,750 +22.86%
Headless CMS
UK

Headless CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (78.38%) CMS
2 3 (8.11%) Strapi
3 2 (5.41%) WordPress
4 1 (2.70%) Magnolia
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Shopify
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
2 16 (43.24%) Serverless
3 15 (40.54%) Figma
4 12 (32.43%) Azure
5 11 (29.73%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (29.73%) Vercel
6 10 (27.03%) Amazon S3
7 9 (24.32%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (21.62%) Google Analytics
9 7 (18.92%) Contentful
10 5 (13.51%) Contentstack
10 5 (13.51%) GCP
11 4 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (8.11%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (8.11%) Supabase
13 2 (5.41%) GitHub
13 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
14 1 (2.70%) Amazon Cognito
14 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) SMS
2 1 (2.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) NoSQL
2 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.51%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.11%) Mixpanel
5 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Cypress.io
2 5 (13.51%) Storybook
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Vite
General
1 25 (67.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Marketing
3 4 (10.81%) Advertising
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Publishing
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (70.27%) Developer
2 13 (35.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (32.43%) Senior
3 12 (32.43%) Senior Developer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (16.22%) JavaScript Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Digital Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Head of Engineering
8 3 (8.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (8.11%) Lead
9 2 (5.41%) Architect
9 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (5.41%) SEO Executive
9 2 (5.41%) Web Developer
10 1 (2.70%) Software Architect
10 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
10 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.70%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (70.27%) React
2 25 (67.57%) Node.js
3 21 (56.76%) GraphQL
4 20 (54.05%) CSS
4 20 (54.05%) HTML
5 19 (51.35%) Next.js
6 18 (48.65%) Express.js
7 9 (24.32%) AngularJS
7 9 (24.32%) Jest
7 9 (24.32%) REST
7 9 (24.32%) Tailwind CSS
8 8 (21.62%) Playwright
8 8 (21.62%) RESTful
8 8 (21.62%) Vitest
9 6 (16.22%) React Native
9 6 (16.22%) Vue
10 5 (13.51%) CSS3
10 5 (13.51%) hapi
10 5 (13.51%) HTML5
10 5 (13.51%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Mobile App
2 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Hackathon
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (5.41%) Social Media
5 1 (2.70%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Agile
2 20 (54.05%) E-Commerce
3 16 (43.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (40.54%) Analytics
5 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (37.84%) SEO
5 14 (37.84%) Web Development
6 13 (35.14%) Sprint Planning
6 13 (35.14%) Sprint Retrospective
7 12 (32.43%) Content Management
7 12 (32.43%) User Experience
8 10 (27.03%) ERP
8 10 (27.03%) UX Design
9 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
10 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
10 8 (21.62%) DevOps
10 8 (21.62%) Integration Testing
10 8 (21.62%) Pair Programming
10 8 (21.62%) Unit Testing
10 8 (21.62%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
2 19 (51.35%) TypeScript
3 14 (37.84%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) Python
5 3 (8.11%) PHP
6 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Apple
2 5 (13.51%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) SAP