Headless CMS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Headless CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 535 678
Rank change year-on-year -81 +143 -35
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 17 21 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.062% 0.081%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.62% 0.81% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 51
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,063 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,125 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +9.76% -1.60%
75th Percentile £48,750 £75,625 £64,750
90th Percentile £51,875 £80,000 -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -35.71% +13.82% -14.58%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Headless 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 2,756 2,591 5,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.83% 7.67% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,107 1,703 4,126
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,674 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -10.72%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Headless CMS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Headless CMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Headless CMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Headless CMS in the UK excluding London

Headless 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 Headless CMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
East Midlands -9 8 £42,500 -20.93% 1
Midlands -29 8 £42,500 -39.29% 1
North of England -51 4 £47,500 +18.75%
South West -59 3 £47,500 -36.67%
North West -3 2 £56,250 +40.63%
East of England - 2 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 -
Headless CMS
UK

Headless 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 17 (100.00%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) nginx
2 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) DigitalOcean
3 2 (11.76%) Figma
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Algolia
4 1 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (5.88%) Contentful
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Claude Code
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Vite
3 1 (5.88%) Xcode
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Business Development Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Business Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Development Manager
5 2 (11.76%) React Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
5 2 (11.76%) WordPress Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) React
2 7 (41.18%) GraphQL
3 4 (23.53%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) Laravel
4 3 (17.65%) Next.js
4 3 (17.65%) Node.js
4 3 (17.65%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) HTML
5 2 (11.76%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (11.76%) LoopBack
5 2 (11.76%) Nuxt
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.88%) Alpine.js
6 1 (5.88%) CSS
6 1 (5.88%) React Native
6 1 (5.88%) Svelte
6 1 (5.88%) TanStack
6 1 (5.88%) WebGL
6 1 (5.88%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Animation
1 1 (5.88%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) E-Commerce
2 8 (47.06%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (29.41%) B2B
3 5 (29.41%) B2C
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Front End Development
4 4 (23.53%) AI
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) API Development
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) CRM
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) User Experience
6 2 (11.76%) Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) Business Development
6 2 (11.76%) Content Management
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) PHP
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) WooCommerce