Adobe Experience Manager Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) formerly Adobe CQ, Communiqué CQ5, Day CQ
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Adobe Experience Manager skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 516 746
Rank change year-on-year -65 +230 -87
Permanent jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 24 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.024% 0.009%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.98% 0.29% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 6
10th Percentile £77,525 - -
25th Percentile - £64,621 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £83,577 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +117.08% -38.40%
75th Percentile £93,750 £91,934 -
90th Percentile - - £67,375
UK median annual salary £80,000 £74,972 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% +15.34% -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,452 2,452 6,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.67% 8.27% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,877 1,584 4,546
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -13.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Adobe Experience Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Adobe Experience Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
North of England -37 8 £87,500 +4.69% 1
North West - 8 £87,500 - 1
South East - 7 - - 2
Wales - 6 £80,000 - 3
South West -49 3 £77,000 +16.02%
Adobe Experience Manager
UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (12.50%) CMS
1 3 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) GitHub
3 4 (16.67%) Miro
4 3 (12.50%) npm
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Maven
1 3 (12.50%) Storybook
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
1 11 (45.83%) Marketing
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Automotive
5 4 (16.67%) Retail
6 3 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) Development Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Digital Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.17%) Technology Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (20.83%) CSS
2 5 (20.83%) HTML
2 5 (20.83%) Node.js
3 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 3 (12.50%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (8.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Customer Experience
2 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (25.00%) Product Management
6 5 (20.83%) API Design
6 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.83%) Information Security
6 5 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (20.83%) Investment Management
6 5 (20.83%) Microservices
6 5 (20.83%) OOP
6 5 (20.83%) Personalization
6 5 (20.83%) SOLID
6 5 (20.83%) TDD
6 5 (20.83%) Validation
7 4 (16.67%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Java
1 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Adobe
2 3 (12.50%) Sitecore