Adobe Experience Manager Job Trends in the North West

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) formerly Adobe CQ, Communiqué CQ5, Day CQ
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Adobe Experience Manager skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 208 182
Rank change year-on-year +26 -26 -
Permanent jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 1 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.016% 0.019% 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.40% 0.20% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile - - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £78,500 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.37% +26.67% -6.25%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

Adobe Experience Manager 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 250 508 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.06% 9.73% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 166 294 252
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £26,216
25th Percentile £31,500 £37,125 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,506 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +1.12% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £68,188
90th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Adobe Experience Manager relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Adobe Experience Manager job vacancy trend in the North West

Adobe Experience Manager
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +29 1 - - 4
Adobe Experience Manager
England

Adobe Experience Manager
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe