CMS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 281 341
Rank change year-on-year -92 +60 +42
Permanent jobs citing CMS 136 319 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.89% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.76% 10.74% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 105 185 226
10th Percentile £26,250 - £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -33.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £46,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £69,000 £76,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,011 2,969 3,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.74% 8.26% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,582 2,610
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,775 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £33,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CMS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CMS in the UK excluding London

CMS
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 CMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
South East +8 50 £35,000 -39.66% 63
North of England -50 39 £55,000 +29.41% 40
Midlands -8 26 £42,039 +20.11% 26
Yorkshire -17 20 £55,000 +17.02% 15
North West -32 18 £54,250 +27.65% 19
West Midlands +20 14 £66,500 +41.21% 12
East Midlands -36 12 £29,500 -15.71% 14
South West +5 11 £48,750 +14.71% 19
East of England +22 10 £31,250 -51.92% 30
Wales -21 2 - - 10
North East +10 1 - - 6
CMS
UK

CMS
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 23 (16.91%) WordPress
2 18 (13.24%) Umbraco
3 9 (6.62%) Headless CMS
4 6 (4.41%) Confluence
4 6 (4.41%) Drupal
5 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.94%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (2.21%) IIS
6 3 (2.21%) Joomla!
6 3 (2.21%) nginx
7 2 (1.47%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.74%) Kentico
8 1 (0.74%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.74%) Strapi
Applications
1 14 (10.29%) Photoshop
2 13 (9.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 9 (6.62%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (5.88%) Adobe Premiere
5 7 (5.15%) InDesign
5 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (2.94%) Adobe XD
6 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (2.21%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (1.47%) Trello
9 1 (0.74%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.74%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.74%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Shopify
2 5 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.68%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (2.94%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.74%) Magento
4 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.74%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.50%) Google Analytics
2 14 (10.29%) AWS
3 13 (9.56%) Figma
4 10 (7.35%) Azure
5 8 (5.88%) MailChimp
5 8 (5.88%) SaaS
6 7 (5.15%) Google Ads
6 7 (5.15%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.15%) Slack
7 6 (4.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 5 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.68%) GitHub
8 5 (3.68%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.94%) Contentful
9 4 (2.94%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (2.94%) Zapier
10 3 (2.21%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.47%) npm
11 2 (1.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) DNS
1 3 (2.21%) SSL
2 2 (1.47%) Broadband
2 2 (1.47%) DHCP
2 2 (1.47%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.47%) Firewall
2 2 (1.47%) HTTP
2 2 (1.47%) Intranet
2 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.47%) VLAN
2 2 (1.47%) Wireless
3 1 (0.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.68%) Metadata
3 3 (2.21%) Looker
3 3 (2.21%) MySQL
4 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.47%) Power BI
4 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.74%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.56%) JIRA
2 7 (5.15%) Git
3 6 (4.41%) Postman
4 3 (2.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 3 (2.21%) Vite
5 2 (1.47%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (1.47%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.47%) Grunt
5 2 (1.47%) gulp
5 2 (1.47%) TestRail
5 2 (1.47%) webpack
6 1 (0.74%) JUnit
6 1 (0.74%) Maven
6 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 59 (43.38%) Marketing
2 39 (28.68%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.50%) Retail
4 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.29%) Finance
6 12 (8.82%) Law
7 10 (7.35%) Advertising
8 9 (6.62%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.88%) Legal
10 4 (2.94%) Publishing
11 3 (2.21%) Automotive
11 3 (2.21%) Multimedia
11 3 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (1.47%) Games
12 2 (1.47%) Humanities
12 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.47%) Police
13 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (22.06%) Developer
2 19 (13.97%) Senior
3 11 (8.09%) Marketing Executive
4 10 (7.35%) Web Developer
5 8 (5.88%) Analyst
5 8 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (5.15%) Digital Executive
6 7 (5.15%) Lead
6 7 (5.15%) Product Owner
7 6 (4.41%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.41%) C# Developer
8 5 (3.68%) .NET Developer
8 5 (3.68%) Chief Technology Officer
8 5 (3.68%) Designer
8 5 (3.68%) E-Commerce Specialist
9 4 (2.94%) C# Web Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Marketing Manager
9 4 (2.94%) SEO Specialist
9 4 (2.94%) Software Analyst
9 4 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.00%) HTML
2 32 (23.53%) CSS
3 15 (11.03%) .NET
4 14 (10.29%) React
5 12 (8.82%) Next.js
6 9 (6.62%) GraphQL
6 9 (6.62%) REST
7 8 (5.88%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.15%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (3.68%) Middleware
10 5 (3.68%) Node.js
10 5 (3.68%) RESTful
11 4 (2.94%) JSON
11 4 (2.94%) Vue
11 4 (2.94%) Web Services
12 3 (2.21%) HTML5
12 3 (2.21%) jQuery
12 3 (2.21%) SVG
12 3 (2.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.91%) Social Media
2 13 (9.56%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.15%) Digital Signage
4 7 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.41%) Blog
5 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.94%) Digital Media
6 4 (2.94%) Graphic Design
7 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.21%) Animation
7 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.21%) Motion Graphics
7 3 (2.21%) W3C
8 2 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.47%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.47%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Android
2 4 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.47%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.47%) Windows
3 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.68%) Content Management
2 36 (26.47%) User Experience
3 29 (21.32%) Analytics
4 27 (19.85%) SEO
5 23 (16.91%) E-Commerce
6 22 (16.18%) Agile
6 22 (16.18%) CRM
7 21 (15.44%) Digital Marketing
7 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (14.71%) AI
8 20 (14.71%) CI/CD
9 19 (13.97%) Project Management
10 16 (11.76%) Web Development
11 15 (11.03%) API Integration
11 15 (11.03%) Customer Experience
11 15 (11.03%) Front End Development
12 14 (10.29%) Roadmaps
13 13 (9.56%) Mentoring
14 12 (8.82%) Customer Engagement
14 12 (8.82%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.21%) JavaScript
2 16 (11.76%) C#
3 15 (11.03%) TypeScript
4 7 (5.15%) SQL
5 6 (4.41%) Python
6 4 (2.94%) PHP
7 3 (2.21%) Bash
7 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.47%) Java
8 2 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.47%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Degree
2 4 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.74%) ISEB
3 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.68%) WCAG
5 4 (2.94%) GDPR
6 3 (2.21%) SLA
7 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (15.44%) Google
2 20 (14.71%) Adobe
3 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.35%) HubSpot
5 9 (6.62%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.15%) SAP
7 6 (4.41%) Facebook
7 6 (4.41%) Instagram
8 5 (3.68%) Screaming Frog
9 4 (2.94%) Hotjar
9 4 (2.94%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.47%) Ahrefs
10 2 (1.47%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.47%) Pardot
10 2 (1.47%) Roku
10 2 (1.47%) VMware
10 2 (1.47%) YouTube
11 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.74%) WSO2