CMS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Content Management System (CMS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 162 156
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 -40
Permanent jobs citing CMS 13 38 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.21% 1.05% 1.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.81% 13.67% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 28 68
10th Percentile £38,400 £30,000 £29,525
25th Percentile £39,000 £49,375 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% +13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £97,500 £66,875 £64,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £80,000 £65,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -12.37%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 191 278 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.06% 7.70% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 130 174 391
10th Percentile £28,200 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £47,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +10.47% -14.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £59,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £65,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -13.27%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CMS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CMS in the Thames Valley

CMS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Buckinghamshire - 9 £40,000 - 3
Berkshire -2 2 £41,000 +36.67% 2
Oxfordshire -29 2 £105,000 +61.54% 1
CMS
South East

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (30.77%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (23.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (15.38%) WordPress
4 1 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (7.69%) IIS
4 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Looker
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Digital Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Digital Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Digital Executive
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing Executive
4 2 (15.38%) Group IT Director
4 2 (15.38%) IT Director
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing Executive
4 2 (15.38%) UI Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Digital Marketing Executive
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Marketing Executive
5 1 (7.69%) Web Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Website Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) Ajax
2 1 (7.69%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (7.69%) CSS3
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5
2 1 (7.69%) jQuery
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Laravel
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) Graphic Design
3 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
4 1 (7.69%) Blog
4 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) User Experience
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Experience
3 5 (38.46%) Personalization
4 4 (30.77%) AI
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) SEO
5 3 (23.08%) Business Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Journey Map
5 3 (23.08%) Service Design
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Customer Insight
6 2 (15.38%) Inventory Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) ICAEW
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (30.77%) WCAG
3 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Sitecore
2 3 (23.08%) Adobe
2 3 (23.08%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Pardot
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce