Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Headless CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Headless CMS over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 724 944 913
Rank change year-on-year +220 -31 -198
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 17 132 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.33% 0.91% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13 59 113
10th Percentile - £52,500 -
25th Percentile £46,750 £56,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +72.41% -33.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £104,750 £110,000 £69,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £67,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.37% +42.11% -24.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Headless CMS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 5,182 14,492 16,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 11.69% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,935 8,518 10,288
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,925 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,185
% change year-on-year - +10.66% +0.41%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Headless CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Headless CMS.

Salary trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Top 7 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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 +213 12 £65,000 -13.33% 13
UK excluding London +199 12 £53,750 -20.37% 11
South East +140 6 £49,250 -24.23% 6
Scotland - 5 £57,500 -
Work from Home +176 4 £78,500 +4.67% 8
London +197 3 £105,000 +20.00% 5
South West +79 1 £72,000 +37.14% 3

Headless CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (82.35%) CMS
2 4 (23.53%) Confluence
3 2 (11.76%) Kentico
4 1 (5.88%) EPiServer
4 1 (5.88%) IIS
4 1 (5.88%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
4 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (5.88%) Magento
2 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Kontent
4 2 (11.76%) Contentful
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Algolia
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) BigCommerce
5 1 (5.88%) Commercetools
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.88%) gulp
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 7 (41.18%) Marketing
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) iGaming
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Applications Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Applications Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Lead
7 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.88%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) CSS
2 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) .NET Core
2 6 (35.29%) Node.js
2 6 (35.29%) React
3 5 (29.41%) HTML
3 5 (29.41%) Next.js
4 4 (23.53%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
5 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
5 3 (17.65%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (17.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.88%) Laravel
6 1 (5.88%) MACH
6 1 (5.88%) React Native
6 1 (5.88%) REST
6 1 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (17.65%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) iPad
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) E-Commerce
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) Web Development
4 6 (35.29%) CRM
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Project Management
5 5 (29.41%) Scrum
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
6 4 (23.53%) Global Marketing
7 3 (17.65%) Change Control
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
7 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 3 (17.65%) ERP
7 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
7 3 (17.65%) SOA
7 3 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) cPanel
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Sitecore