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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 655 680
Rank change year-on-year +63 +25 +210
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 13 21 4
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.025% 0.044% 0.008%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.44% 0.48% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 4
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,600 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £40,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +81.25% -43.86% -5.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £62,000 £92,500
90th Percentile - £65,250 £106,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £40,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +81.25% -30.43% -23.33%

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 2,925 4,402 5,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.57% 9.17% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,108 2,590 4,183
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,263
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +7.55% -3.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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
North of England +35 9 £72,500 +19.83% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £95,000 - 1
London +57 4 £70,000 - 5
North West +28 2 £50,000 -17.36% 1
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 13 (100.00%) CMS
2 3 (23.08%) WordPress
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
3 1 (7.69%) Magnolia
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Figma
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
3 4 (30.77%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Website Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Shopify Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) React
2 6 (46.15%) GraphQL
2 6 (46.15%) Next.js
2 6 (46.15%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) MACH
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Sass
3 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Mentoring
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) E-Commerce
3 5 (38.46%) Presales
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) API Integration
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) CRM
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Web Development
6 2 (15.38%) AI
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Workflow
6 2 (15.38%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) HubSpot
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Optimizely