CMS Job Trends in the North of England

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 211 176 231
Rank change year-on-year -35 +55 +127
Permanent jobs citing CMS 45 102 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.43% 1.08% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.34% 12.58% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 39 76 52
10th Percentile £29,850 - £32,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £31,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £46,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,625 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.12% -22.73% -

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 482 811 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.58% 8.57% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 341 452 592
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,783 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,188
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,991 £82,548
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the North of England

CMS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for CMS in the North of England

CMS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
North West -23 24 £45,000 +5.88% 56
Yorkshire -3 20 £55,000 -1.79% 35
North East +4 1 - - 6
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (26.67%) WordPress
2 11 (24.44%) Headless CMS
2 11 (24.44%) Umbraco
3 3 (6.67%) Magnolia
4 2 (4.44%) Apache Solr
4 2 (4.44%) Confluence
4 2 (4.44%) Drupal
4 2 (4.44%) EPiServer
4 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.44%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (4.44%) Trello
3 1 (2.22%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (2.22%) FrameMaker
3 1 (2.22%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Slack
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) Figma
2 4 (8.89%) Google Analytics
2 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
2 4 (8.89%) Zapier
3 3 (6.67%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Contentful
3 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.44%) npm
4 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
4 2 (4.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.22%) Kontent
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Intranet
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) SSH
2 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Metadata
1 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.44%) Power BI
1 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JIRA
2 5 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (8.89%) Postman
4 2 (4.44%) Grunt
4 2 (4.44%) gulp
4 2 (4.44%) webpack
5 1 (2.22%) JUnit
5 1 (2.22%) Maven
5 1 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (37.78%) Marketing
3 13 (28.89%) Retail
4 7 (15.56%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Finance
6 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Automotive
6 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.44%) Law
7 2 (4.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Senior
3 6 (13.33%) Web Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Account Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Leader
5 4 (8.89%) Website Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Digital Developer
6 3 (6.67%) E-Commerce Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior E-Commerce Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Marketing Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Web Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) CSS
1 12 (26.67%) React
2 10 (22.22%) Next.js
3 9 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 9 (20.00%) HTML
3 9 (20.00%) REST
4 7 (15.56%) Middleware
5 5 (11.11%) .NET
6 4 (8.89%) JSON
7 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.67%) CSS3
7 3 (6.67%) HTML5
7 3 (6.67%) Node.js
7 3 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (6.67%) RESTful
8 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (4.44%) Redux
8 2 (4.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.89%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.67%) Graphic Design
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.67%) Social Media
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
2 12 (26.67%) Agile
2 12 (26.67%) API Integration
2 12 (26.67%) E-Commerce
3 10 (22.22%) CRM
3 10 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 10 (22.22%) User Experience
4 8 (17.78%) AI
4 8 (17.78%) Content Management
4 8 (17.78%) Front End Development
4 8 (17.78%) Web Development
5 7 (15.56%) Customer Engagement
5 7 (15.56%) Customer Requirements
5 7 (15.56%) Presales
5 7 (15.56%) Project Management
5 7 (15.56%) Validation
6 6 (13.33%) Analytics
6 6 (13.33%) B2B
6 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.33%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 12 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 7 (15.56%) Python
4 4 (8.89%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) Java
7 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) WCAG
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) HubSpot
3 5 (11.11%) Google
3 5 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.67%) Adobe
5 2 (4.44%) Hotjar
5 2 (4.44%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.22%) Ahrefs
6 1 (2.22%) Hootsuite
6 1 (2.22%) Pardot
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Screaming Frog