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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 344 389
Rank change year-on-year -25 +45 -65
Permanent jobs citing CMS 225 524 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.40% 7.25% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 158 475 362
10th Percentile £31,175 £27,500 £32,500
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% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,750 £64,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,750 £71,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

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 2,679 7,225 6,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.85% 10.20% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 4,650 3,940
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,147 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +0.92%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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
South East -4 63 £55,000 +4.76% 136
North of England -13 57 £33,000 -25.00% 140
North West -27 48 £33,000 -22.35% 88
Midlands +44 46 £36,250 -14.71% 52
West Midlands +48 26 £53,092 +41.58% 36
East Midlands +24 20 £35,000 -17.65% 15
South West +66 19 £47,500 -22.76% 37
Scotland +115 15 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Wales +44 14 £32,500 +4.00% 6
East of England -1 11 £50,000 +17.65% 31
Yorkshire +24 8 £37,500 -25.00% 36
North East +38 1 £45,000 -24.25% 16
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 40 (17.78%) Umbraco
1 40 (17.78%) WordPress
2 21 (9.33%) Headless CMS
3 13 (5.78%) Kentico
4 9 (4.00%) Drupal
5 7 (3.11%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (2.22%) Sitefinity
6 5 (2.22%) Strapi
7 4 (1.78%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.78%) Confluence
7 4 (1.78%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.89%) DNN
8 2 (0.89%) IIS
8 2 (0.89%) Jadu
8 2 (0.89%) Joomla!
8 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (6.67%) 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 26 (11.56%) Shopify
2 8 (3.56%) Magento
3 5 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.22%) Azure
2 33 (14.67%) Google Analytics
3 18 (8.00%) AWS
4 16 (7.11%) GitHub
4 16 (7.11%) SaaS
5 15 (6.67%) iPaaS
5 15 (6.67%) PaaS
6 13 (5.78%) Zapier
7 12 (5.33%) Contentful
7 12 (5.33%) Serverless
7 12 (5.33%) Slack
8 10 (4.44%) npm
9 9 (4.00%) Figma
9 9 (4.00%) GCP
9 9 (4.00%) Kontent
10 8 (3.56%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.11%) Google Ads
12 5 (2.22%) MailChimp
12 5 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.22%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.78%) Intranet
2 4 (1.78%) DNS
3 3 (1.33%) SMS
4 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) FTP
5 1 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.44%) SMTP
5 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.89%) MySQL
2 27 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.22%) 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
Development Applications
1 39 (17.33%) Git
2 20 (8.89%) JIRA
3 12 (5.33%) webpack
4 9 (4.00%) Grunt
5 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.89%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.89%) Storybook
6 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
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%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 1 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 102 (45.33%) Social Skills
2 76 (33.78%) Marketing
3 30 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.89%) Finance
5 25 (11.11%) Legal
6 23 (10.22%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (7.11%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (6.22%) Advertising
9 12 (5.33%) Retail
10 9 (4.00%) Publishing
11 6 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.22%) Banking
12 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.22%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.33%) Automotive
13 3 (1.33%) Brand Awareness
13 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.33%) Games
13 3 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (43.11%) Developer
2 22 (9.78%) Umbraco Developer
3 18 (8.00%) Architect
4 17 (7.56%) Senior
5 15 (6.67%) Applications Architect
5 15 (6.67%) IT Architect
6 14 (6.22%) Lead
6 14 (6.22%) Web Manager
7 13 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (5.78%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.33%) Web Developer
9 11 (4.89%) PHP Developer
10 10 (4.44%) Digital Developer
10 10 (4.44%) Lead Developer
10 10 (4.44%) Project Manager
11 9 (4.00%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.00%) Product Owner
11 9 (4.00%) Web Project Manager
12 8 (3.56%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (42.67%) HTML
2 84 (37.33%) CSS
3 38 (16.89%) React
4 29 (12.89%) HTML5
5 26 (11.56%) Vue
6 23 (10.22%) .NET
7 22 (9.78%) jQuery
8 21 (9.33%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.44%) Node.js
10 18 (8.00%) Sass
11 15 (6.67%) Laravel
12 13 (5.78%) ASP.NET
13 11 (4.89%) GraphQL
13 11 (4.89%) REST
14 9 (4.00%) Next.js
14 9 (4.00%) Symfony
15 8 (3.56%) Bootstrap
15 8 (3.56%) CakePHP
15 8 (3.56%) Doctrine
15 8 (3.56%) Pyjs
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.89%) NHS
2 19 (8.44%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.00%) Social Media
4 16 (7.11%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.44%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (4.00%) Blog
6 9 (4.00%) Legacy Code
7 8 (3.56%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.67%) Graphic Design
9 5 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.22%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.78%) Animation
10 4 (1.78%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (1.78%) Photography
10 4 (1.78%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (1.33%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.33%) Motion Graphics
12 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.89%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.33%) Windows
1 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.89%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Android
3 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (36.44%) Content Management
2 78 (34.67%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (30.67%) Web Development
4 63 (28.00%) SEO
5 62 (27.56%) Agile
6 56 (24.89%) E-Commerce
7 51 (22.67%) User Experience
8 47 (20.89%) Analytics
8 47 (20.89%) CRM
9 37 (16.44%) Project Management
10 33 (14.67%) Digital Marketing
11 30 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 28 (12.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (10.67%) UX Design
14 23 (10.22%) Clean Code
14 23 (10.22%) Collaborative Working
15 21 (9.33%) B2B
15 21 (9.33%) Creative Thinking
15 21 (9.33%) Marketing Automation
16 20 (8.89%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.56%) JavaScript
2 46 (20.44%) C#
3 37 (16.44%) SQL
4 35 (15.56%) PHP
5 23 (10.22%) Python
6 15 (6.67%) Java
7 14 (6.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.78%) Ruby
9 2 (0.89%) C++
9 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) Go
10 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (21.78%) Degree
2 14 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.56%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.89%) CRISC
4 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (19.56%) Accessibility
2 25 (11.11%) GDPR
3 24 (10.67%) WCAG
4 3 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.33%) QA
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 15 (6.67%) Docker
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 49 (21.78%) Google
2 39 (17.33%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.89%) Adobe
3 20 (8.89%) HP
4 12 (5.33%) WooCommerce
5 10 (4.44%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.56%) HubSpot
7 7 (3.11%) Sitecore
7 7 (3.11%) Twitter
7 7 (3.11%) YouTube
8 5 (2.22%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.78%) Facebook
9 4 (1.78%) Instagram
9 4 (1.78%) PayPal
10 2 (0.89%) Crazy Egg
10 2 (0.89%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.44%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle