Adobe Experience Manager Job Trends

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) formerly Adobe CQ, Communiqué CQ5, Day CQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Adobe Experience Manager skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 679 674
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 +305
Permanent jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager 6 32 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.060% 0.070%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.18% 0.65% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 29
10th Percentile £40,000 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £53,125 £85,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £79,000 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £81,400 - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £65,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year - -22.23% +39.29%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Adobe Experience Manager 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,409 4,888 6,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.65% 9.12% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,277 2,867 4,499
10th Percentile £27,800 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,820 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,039 £47,500 £45,196
% change year-on-year -11.50% +5.10% -4.85%

Adobe Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Adobe Experience Manager relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Adobe Experience Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe Experience Manager.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Adobe Experience Manager in the UK

Adobe Experience Manager
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Experience Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +39 5 £78,500 -19.49% 5
London +45 3 £75,000 -25.00% 2
UK excluding London +27 1 - - 3
North West +24 1 - - 1
North of England +14 1 - - 1

Adobe Experience Manager
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Analytics Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Analytics Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) OSGi
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) JSP
3 1 (16.67%) JSR 170
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) UX Design
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (16.67%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Adobe
2 2 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Marketo
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow