CMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 343 388
Rank change year-on-year +13 +45 -72
Permanent jobs citing CMS 225 513 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.74% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.76% 7.11% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 165 467 370
10th Percentile - £27,650 £32,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,772 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -17.39% +15.00%

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 2,568 7,217 6,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.03% 10.41% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 4,690 4,110
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,975
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

CMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for CMS in the UK excluding London

CMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

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 21 April 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
North of England +23 63 £32,500 -26.14% 54
South East +10 58 £65,000 +23.81% 71
North West 0 52 £32,750 -22.94% 33
Midlands +45 43 £35,000 -17.65% 35
East Midlands +56 23 £35,000 -17.65% 7
South West +75 20 £46,250 -24.80% 20
West Midlands +22 20 £52,500 +40.00% 28
Wales +59 17 £32,500 +4.00% 4
Scotland +126 14 £46,250 -15.91% 5
Yorkshire +44 10 £32,493 -31.59% 18
East of England +23 10 £47,500 +18.75% 12
North East +44 1 £45,000 -24.25% 4
CMS
UK

CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 45 (20.00%) WordPress
2 43 (19.11%) Umbraco
3 19 (8.44%) Headless CMS
4 16 (7.11%) Kentico
5 8 (3.56%) Drupal
5 8 (3.56%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (2.22%) Apache Solr
6 5 (2.22%) Sitefinity
6 5 (2.22%) Strapi
7 4 (1.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.78%) Confluence
7 4 (1.78%) EPiServer
7 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.33%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.89%) DNN
9 2 (0.89%) IIS
9 2 (0.89%) Jadu
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (6.22%) Photoshop
3 12 (5.33%) Adobe Premiere
4 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (2.67%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (1.33%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.44%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (13.33%) Shopify
2 11 (4.89%) Magento
3 4 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.44%) Azure
2 31 (13.78%) Google Analytics
3 18 (8.00%) GitHub
4 16 (7.11%) AWS
4 16 (7.11%) Zapier
5 15 (6.67%) Slack
6 13 (5.78%) npm
7 12 (5.33%) Kontent
7 12 (5.33%) SaaS
8 11 (4.89%) iPaaS
8 11 (4.89%) PaaS
9 10 (4.44%) Contentful
9 10 (4.44%) Serverless
10 8 (3.56%) Figma
10 8 (3.56%) GCP
10 8 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.11%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.67%) Google Ads
13 4 (1.78%) MailChimp
13 4 (1.78%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.11%) Intranet
2 4 (1.78%) DNS
3 2 (0.89%) SMS
3 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) Broadband
4 1 (0.44%) FTP
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) SMTP
4 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.00%) MySQL
2 30 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.78%) Power BI
6 3 (1.33%) Looker
6 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.89%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 46 (20.44%) Git
2 23 (10.22%) JIRA
3 16 (7.11%) webpack
4 12 (5.33%) Grunt
5 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.33%) MSBuild
5 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.89%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.89%) Maven
6 2 (0.89%) Selenium
6 2 (0.89%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.44%) GitLab
7 1 (0.44%) gulp
7 1 (0.44%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.44%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 105 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 72 (32.00%) Marketing
3 25 (11.11%) Finance
4 21 (9.33%) Legal
5 20 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (5.33%) Retail
8 10 (4.44%) Advertising
9 8 (3.56%) Publishing
10 6 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.22%) Banking
11 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.33%) Automotive
12 3 (1.33%) Brand Awareness
12 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.33%) Games
12 3 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 109 (48.44%) Developer
2 25 (11.11%) Umbraco Developer
3 17 (7.56%) Lead
3 17 (7.56%) Senior
4 16 (7.11%) Web Manager
5 15 (6.67%) Web Developer
6 14 (6.22%) Architect
6 14 (6.22%) Lead Developer
6 14 (6.22%) PHP Developer
7 13 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (5.78%) Project Manager
8 12 (5.33%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.33%) Web Project Manager
9 11 (4.89%) Applications Architect
9 11 (4.89%) IT Architect
10 10 (4.44%) Digital Developer
11 9 (4.00%) Digital Project Manager
12 8 (3.56%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.56%) Product Owner
13 7 (3.11%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (47.11%) HTML
2 92 (40.89%) CSS
3 34 (15.11%) React
4 31 (13.78%) HTML5
5 29 (12.89%) Vue
6 25 (11.11%) jQuery
7 22 (9.78%) .NET
7 22 (9.78%) Sass
8 20 (8.89%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.44%) Laravel
10 17 (7.56%) Node.js
11 12 (5.33%) ASP.NET
11 12 (5.33%) Symfony
12 11 (4.89%) CakePHP
12 11 (4.89%) Doctrine
12 11 (4.89%) Pyjs
13 9 (4.00%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.00%) Next.js
13 9 (4.00%) REST
14 8 (3.56%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.22%) NHS
2 22 (9.78%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.00%) Social Media
4 12 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (5.33%) Legacy Code
5 10 (4.44%) Blog
6 8 (3.56%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (2.67%) Graphic Design
7 6 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.22%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.78%) Animation
9 4 (1.78%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.78%) Photography
9 4 (1.78%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (1.33%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.33%) Motion Graphics
11 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.22%) Windows
2 4 (1.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.89%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.00%) Content Management
2 82 (36.44%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (34.67%) Web Development
4 64 (28.44%) SEO
5 61 (27.11%) E-Commerce
6 57 (25.33%) User Experience
7 55 (24.44%) Agile
8 50 (22.22%) CRM
9 45 (20.00%) Analytics
10 41 (18.22%) Project Management
11 35 (15.56%) Digital Marketing
12 31 (13.78%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (11.56%) Clean Code
13 26 (11.56%) UX Design
14 25 (11.11%) Mentoring
15 24 (10.67%) B2B
15 24 (10.67%) Collaborative Working
16 23 (10.22%) Customer Requirements
16 23 (10.22%) Front End Development
16 23 (10.22%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 66 (29.33%) JavaScript
2 48 (21.33%) C#
3 43 (19.11%) PHP
4 41 (18.22%) SQL
5 24 (10.67%) Python
6 18 (8.00%) Java
7 12 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.89%) C++
9 2 (0.89%) Ruby
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) Go
10 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 56 (24.89%) Degree
2 17 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.89%) CRISC
4 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (21.78%) Accessibility
2 30 (13.33%) GDPR
3 27 (12.00%) WCAG
4 4 (1.78%) QA
5 2 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.89%) COBIT
5 2 (0.89%) ITGC
5 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.89%) WAI
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (7.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.33%) Terraform
2 1 (0.44%) cPanel
2 1 (0.44%) Grafana
2 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 46 (20.44%) Google
2 43 (19.11%) Microsoft
3 23 (10.22%) HP
4 19 (8.44%) Adobe
5 15 (6.67%) WooCommerce
6 10 (4.44%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.56%) Sitecore
8 7 (3.11%) HubSpot
8 7 (3.11%) Twitter
8 7 (3.11%) YouTube
9 5 (2.22%) Optimizely
10 4 (1.78%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.78%) Facebook
10 4 (1.78%) Instagram
10 4 (1.78%) PayPal
11 1 (0.44%) Apple
11 1 (0.44%) Crazy Egg
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle
11 1 (0.44%) SAP
11 1 (0.44%) VMware