CMS Jobs in Scotland

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 271 222
Rank change year-on-year +125 -49 +6
Permanent jobs citing CMS 13 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.44% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.22% 1.00% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £53,850 £38,000 £41,875
25th Percentile £55,875 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £63,875 £75,772 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,150 - -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 209 1,202 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.05% 17.70% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 77 199 251
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.43% +0.48%
75th Percentile £75,360 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £67,700 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,022
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.13% +0.04%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in Scotland

CMS
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMS in Scotland.

Salary trend for CMS in Scotland

CMS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Edinburgh +31 10 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Glasgow +170 3 £66,000 +164.00% 3
CMS
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (38.46%) Umbraco
2 3 (23.08%) Drupal
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Solr
3 2 (15.38%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (23.08%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Google Analytics
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (15.38%) Contentsquare
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MSBuild
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
1 2 (15.38%) webpack
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 7 (53.85%) Marketing
2 3 (23.08%) Advertising
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Web Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Content Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Content Editor
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Content Editor
4 1 (7.69%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
1 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Next.js
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Sass
2 2 (15.38%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (7.69%) CSS3
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Blog
1 3 (23.08%) Social Media
2 1 (7.69%) Digital Media
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Content Management
3 5 (38.46%) SEO
4 4 (30.77%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (30.77%) Personalization
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 4 (30.77%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Web Development
5 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
5 3 (23.08%) Business Development
5 3 (23.08%) Content Development
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) Multichannel Marketing
5 3 (23.08%) OpenUP
5 3 (23.08%) Pay per click
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) COBIT
2 1 (7.69%) ITGC
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe
3 2 (15.38%) Optimizely
3 2 (15.38%) Sitecore