CMS Job Trends in the Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 186 225
Rank change year-on-year -7 +39 +47
Permanent jobs citing CMS 33 52 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.37% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.48% 12.09% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 43
10th Percentile £24,000 £32,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £24,500 £32,500 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £67,250 £38,438 £65,625
90th Percentile £159,000 £55,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -8.70%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 389 430 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.37% 7.26% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 296 258 651
10th Percentile £24,750 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,313 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CMS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for CMS in the Midlands

CMS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 February 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 -31 20 £25,500 -27.14% 10
West Midlands +13 13 £66,500 +19.62% 9
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (15.15%) nginx
2 4 (12.12%) Umbraco
2 4 (12.12%) WordPress
3 3 (9.09%) IIS
4 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.03%) Drupal
5 1 (3.03%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (3.03%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (15.15%) Photoshop
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Shopify
2 1 (3.03%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure
4 2 (6.06%) Figma
4 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.03%) Apigee
5 1 (3.03%) Bloomreach
5 1 (3.03%) Boomi
5 1 (3.03%) Contentful
5 1 (3.03%) Contentstack
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Kong
5 1 (3.03%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MySQL
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Vite
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Marketing
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Publishing
5 2 (6.06%) Legal
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Games
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Developer
2 6 (18.18%) Product Owner
2 6 (18.18%) Web Developer
3 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
3 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Junior
3 4 (12.12%) Products Support Technician
3 4 (12.12%) Support Technician
4 3 (9.09%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (9.09%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 3 (9.09%) C# Web Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Chief Technology Officer
4 3 (9.09%) Junior .NET Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Junior Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Marketing Executive
5 2 (6.06%) Graduate Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) HTML
2 14 (42.42%) CSS
3 6 (18.18%) .NET
3 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 6 (18.18%) Laravel
3 6 (18.18%) Vue
4 5 (15.15%) LEMP Stack
4 5 (15.15%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (15.15%) YAML
5 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (6.06%) .NET Framework
7 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (6.06%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (3.03%) RESTful
8 1 (3.03%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (9.09%) Social Media
3 1 (3.03%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.03%) Digital Signage
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) User Experience
2 11 (33.33%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) Content Management
3 8 (24.24%) Web Development
4 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
4 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.18%) Backlog Management
5 6 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (18.18%) Business Strategy
5 6 (18.18%) MVC
5 6 (18.18%) Product Backlog
5 6 (18.18%) Product Vision
5 6 (18.18%) Project Management
6 5 (15.15%) AI
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) SEO
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (15.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.21%) PHP
3 6 (18.18%) C#
4 5 (15.15%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.06%) WCAG
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Adobe
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Dell
3 1 (3.03%) mParticle
3 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.03%) Optimizely
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) Sitecore
3 1 (3.03%) Tealium
3 1 (3.03%) WSO2