CMS Job Trends in the South East

Content Management System (CMS)
England > South East

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 201 241
Rank change year-on-year -65 +40 -76
Permanent jobs citing CMS 45 88 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.28% 1.02% 0.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.94% 13.71% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 27 50 124
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £27,150
25th Percentile £39,000 £34,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -12.37%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £72,500 £64,750
England median annual salary £48,676 £48,256 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +7.24% -18.18%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 567 642 1,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.58% 7.48% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 447 422 940
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -13.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,175 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,125
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% -11.09%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the South East

CMS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the South East over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CMS in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Hampshire -34 17 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Surrey -13 13 £50,000 - 3
Thames Valley -17 13 £42,000 -35.38% 6
Buckinghamshire - 9 £40,000 - 3
Berkshire +6 2 £41,000 +36.67% 2
Oxfordshire -28 2 £105,000 +61.54% 1
West Sussex -19 1 £65,000 +100.00% 1
East Sussex -21 1 £57,500 +38.55%
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (22.22%) WordPress
2 4 (8.89%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) ExpressionEngine
4 1 (2.22%) IIS
4 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (8.89%) Photoshop
2 2 (4.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.22%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Google Data Studio
1 10 (22.22%) Google Tag Manager
2 9 (20.00%) SaaS
3 6 (13.33%) Canva
4 4 (8.89%) Azure
5 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.22%) Firebase
6 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Looker
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (53.33%) Marketing
2 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Finance
4 5 (11.11%) Multimedia
4 5 (11.11%) Publishing
5 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Advertising
7 2 (4.44%) Law
7 2 (4.44%) Legal
7 2 (4.44%) Legal Technology
7 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.22%) Back Office
8 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Lead
2 6 (13.33%) Architect
3 4 (8.89%) Ad Operations Executive
3 4 (8.89%) Developer
3 4 (8.89%) Digital Architect
3 4 (8.89%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (8.89%) Marketing Communications Manager
3 4 (8.89%) Marketing Executive
3 4 (8.89%) Marketing Manager
3 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Digital Executive
5 2 (4.44%) Customer Executive
5 2 (4.44%) Digital Marketing Executive
5 2 (4.44%) Group IT Director
5 2 (4.44%) IT Director
5 2 (4.44%) PHP Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) UI Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) CSS
1 4 (8.89%) HTML
2 3 (6.67%) Laravel
3 2 (4.44%) React
3 2 (4.44%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) Ajax
4 1 (2.22%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (2.22%) CSS3
4 1 (2.22%) HTML5
4 1 (2.22%) jQuery
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Marketing Technology
2 7 (15.56%) Social Media
3 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (11.11%) Blog
4 5 (11.11%) Podcast
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
5 4 (8.89%) IoT
5 4 (8.89%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.44%) Graphic Design
7 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
7 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
1 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Digital Marketing
2 18 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (37.78%) Analytics
4 16 (35.56%) Personalization
5 15 (33.33%) AI
5 15 (33.33%) CRM
5 15 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 12 (26.67%) SEO
7 10 (22.22%) Ad Operations
7 10 (22.22%) Consent Management
7 10 (22.22%) Marketing Automation
7 10 (22.22%) Project Management
8 8 (17.78%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (17.78%) User Experience
9 7 (15.56%) Data Collection
10 6 (13.33%) B2B
10 6 (13.33%) Business Strategy
11 5 (11.11%) Agile
11 5 (11.11%) Copywriting
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
1 4 (8.89%) PHP
2 2 (4.44%) C
3 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.67%) ICAEW
4 1 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 10 (22.22%) GDPR
2 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (8.89%) WCAG
4 3 (6.67%) PERC
5 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.44%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) Google
2 10 (22.22%) Braze
3 5 (11.11%) Adobe
4 4 (8.89%) Sitecore
5 2 (4.44%) HubSpot
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.22%) Aderant
6 1 (2.22%) Ahrefs
6 1 (2.22%) dotdigital
6 1 (2.22%) iManage
6 1 (2.22%) Pardot
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.22%) Screaming Frog