CMS Jobs in the North West

Content Management System (CMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 217 266
Rank change year-on-year +9 +49 -14
Permanent jobs citing CMS 49 72 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.65% 0.74% 0.43%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.78% 9.50% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 45 69 26
10th Percentile - £27,250 £34,688
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% -15.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £46,250 £65,000 £56,187
90th Percentile £60,300 £76,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -17.39% +15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 558 758 709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.37% 7.80% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 364 550 527
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £32,813 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,814 £45,532 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% -4.14% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,125
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.91% +2.05%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the North West

CMS
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMS in the North West.

Salary trend for CMS in the North West

CMS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CMS in the North West

CMS
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 CMS within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Merseyside +52 22 £32,500 -13.33% 4
Manchester +49 22 £42,500 -5.56% 38
Lancashire -48 3 - - 14
Cheshire +28 2 £63,750 +50.00% 6
CMS
England

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (42.86%) Umbraco
2 9 (18.37%) WordPress
3 3 (6.12%) Headless CMS
4 2 (4.08%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.04%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Magento
1 8 (16.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) Google Analytics
2 6 (12.24%) Azure
3 5 (10.20%) AWS
4 3 (6.12%) Google Ads
4 3 (6.12%) Google Data Studio
4 3 (6.12%) MailChimp
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.08%) Cloudflare
5 2 (4.08%) Contentful
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) Serverless
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Cloudflare Workers
6 1 (2.04%) Datadog
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.86%) Intranet
2 2 (4.08%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 25 (51.02%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Marketing
3 3 (6.12%) Advertising
3 3 (6.12%) Automotive
3 3 (6.12%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Legal
5 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (71.43%) Developer
2 21 (42.86%) Umbraco Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Lead
3 8 (16.33%) Lead Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Web Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Creative Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Creative Web Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Digital Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Digital Marketing Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Digital Marketing Specialist
5 3 (6.12%) Marketing Specialist
5 3 (6.12%) Marketing Web Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Web Marketing Specialist
5 3 (6.12%) Web Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Lecturer
6 2 (4.08%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (53.06%) CSS
1 26 (53.06%) HTML
2 21 (42.86%) HTML5
2 21 (42.86%) jQuery
3 6 (12.24%) React
4 4 (8.16%) .NET
5 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.12%) Node.js
5 3 (6.12%) REST
5 3 (6.12%) Web Services
6 2 (4.08%) Django
6 2 (4.08%) Jest
6 2 (4.08%) Next.js
7 1 (2.04%) Express.js
7 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.04%) Middleware
7 1 (2.04%) React Native
7 1 (2.04%) Redux
7 1 (2.04%) Sass
7 1 (2.04%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.86%) NHS
2 5 (10.20%) Blog
3 3 (6.12%) Motion Graphics
3 3 (6.12%) Social Media
4 2 (4.08%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
1 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (51.02%) Web Development
3 23 (46.94%) Content Management
4 21 (42.86%) Clean Code
4 21 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
5 11 (22.45%) E-Commerce
6 10 (20.41%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (18.37%) Analytics
8 8 (16.33%) Requirements Workshops
8 8 (16.33%) Technical Architecture
9 7 (14.29%) SEO
9 7 (14.29%) User Experience
10 6 (12.24%) Agile
10 6 (12.24%) Digital Marketing
11 5 (10.20%) MVC
12 3 (6.12%) B2B
12 3 (6.12%) Copywriting
12 3 (6.12%) Logistics
12 3 (6.12%) Pay per click
12 3 (6.12%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (55.10%) C#
2 23 (46.94%) SQL
3 14 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.16%) Python
5 3 (6.12%) PHP
6 2 (4.08%) C++
6 2 (4.08%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.04%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (44.90%) Accessibility
2 21 (42.86%) GDPR
2 21 (42.86%) WCAG
3 1 (2.04%) COBIT
3 1 (2.04%) ITGC
3 1 (2.04%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) cPanel
1 1 (2.04%) Grafana
1 1 (2.04%) Kibana
1 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) HP
2 9 (18.37%) Google
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.08%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.04%) Hotjar