CMS Job Trends in Leeds

Content Management System (CMS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 82 95
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +86
Permanent jobs citing CMS 5 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.38% 0.55% 1.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.10% 6.52% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile - £37,260 £31,925
25th Percentile £26,250 £44,400 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £76,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +80.00% -36.09%
75th Percentile £42,915 £78,750 £79,000
90th Percentile £51,666 £81,750 £84,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £38,520 £77,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -49.97% +40.00% -17.29%

All Application Platform Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 82 92 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 6.20% 8.50% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 64 57 83
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,150 £31,050
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,270 £49,274 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -4.37% +2.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,991 £82,548
90th Percentile £76,000 £74,831 £96,218
West Yorkshire median annual salary £42,270 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.15% - +4.76%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

CMS job vacancy trend in Leeds

CMS
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in Leeds over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CMS in Leeds

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (40.00%) Headless CMS
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (40.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) FrameMaker
1 1 (20.00%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Web Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Website Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Author
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Author
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) Next.js
1 2 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Case Management
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Content Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Document Management
3 2 (40.00%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HubSpot
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe