Headless CMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Headless CMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Headless CMS over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 709 709
Rank change year-on-year +155 0 +105
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 21 54 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.076% 0.040%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.78% 0.75% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 21 48 14
10th Percentile £39,000 £51,875 £48,826
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,250 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -14.58% +60.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,750 £82,813
90th Percentile £80,000 - £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year +13.82% -21.90% +26.00%

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 2,690 7,221 5,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.82% 10.18% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,642 3,912
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £28,000
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 £73,750 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,150
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.34% +0.49%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the UK excluding London

Headless CMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Headless CMS in the UK excluding London

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Midlands +62 8 £58,000 +16.00% 2
South West +93 4 £75,000 +21.95% 5
West Midlands +54 4 £69,250 +97.86% 2
East Midlands +33 4 £38,750 -22.50%
North of England - 3 £63,500 - 9
Wales - 3 £70,000 - 1
North West - 3 £63,500 - 7
South East +78 2 £48,750 -20.73% 11
Scotland - 1 £55,000 - 1
Headless CMS
UK

Headless 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 21 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (23.81%) Strapi
3 3 (14.29%) Confluence
4 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
4 1 (4.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Contentful
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 9 (42.86%) Azure
4 8 (38.10%) Serverless
5 5 (23.81%) GCP
6 4 (19.05%) Figma
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.52%) GitHub
7 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.76%) Algolia
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.76%) npm
8 1 (4.76%) Squarespace
8 1 (4.76%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) SMS
2 1 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.52%) Storybook
5 1 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Marketing
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Digital Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 5 (23.81%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) React
2 15 (71.43%) CSS
3 14 (66.67%) HTML
4 13 (61.90%) Node.js
5 10 (47.62%) AngularJS
6 9 (42.86%) GraphQL
7 8 (38.10%) REST
7 8 (38.10%) Vue
8 6 (28.57%) Express.js
8 6 (28.57%) React Native
9 5 (23.81%) Bootstrap
9 5 (23.81%) hapi
9 5 (23.81%) NestJS
10 4 (19.05%) .NET
10 4 (19.05%) Next.js
11 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
11 3 (14.29%) CSS3
11 3 (14.29%) HTML5
11 3 (14.29%) OpenLayers
12 2 (9.52%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (9.52%) Social Media
4 1 (4.76%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) API Development
3 8 (38.10%) Content Management
4 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 7 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Web Development
5 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 6 (28.57%) Microservices
6 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
6 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) Front End Development
6 5 (23.81%) Mobile Application Development
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (23.81%) SEO
6 5 (23.81%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (23.81%) Sprint Retrospective
6 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (23.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) JavaScript
2 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
3 4 (19.05%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.52%) Adobe
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft