Headless CMS Jobs

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 829 913
Rank change year-on-year +177 +84 +93
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 32 56 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.057% 0.071%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.72% 0.52% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 25 49 45
10th Percentile £40,400 £47,500 £60,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -20.65% +24.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £79,000 - £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.69% -18.00% +57.89%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,444 10,730 11,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 10.91% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,060 7,087 7,898
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £92,295 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Top 13 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 30 April 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
England +159 26 £67,500 +9.76% 30
UK excluding London +175 21 £65,000 +5.69% 14
Work from Home +155 12 £57,500 -6.50% 20
London +110 8 £70,000 -26.32% 18
Midlands +59 8 £58,000 +16.00% 2
South West +100 4 £75,000 +21.95%
East Midlands +50 4 £38,750 -22.50%
West Midlands +48 4 £69,250 +97.86% 2
North of England - 3 £63,500 - 6
North West - 3 £63,500 - 4
Wales - 3 £70,000 - 3
South East +91 2 £48,750 -20.73% 1
Scotland - 1 £55,000 -

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 32 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (15.63%) Strapi
3 3 (9.38%) Confluence
4 2 (6.25%) Umbraco
5 1 (3.13%) EPiServer
5 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 18 (56.25%) Azure
3 14 (43.75%) Contentful
4 11 (34.38%) Serverless
5 8 (25.00%) Figma
5 8 (25.00%) GCP
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (12.50%) Contentstack
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) Algolia
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Miro
8 1 (3.13%) npm
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Squarespace
8 1 (3.13%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) SMS
2 1 (3.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
2 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) JIRA
3 5 (15.63%) Storybook
4 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) GitLab
5 1 (3.13%) Grunt
5 1 (3.13%) gulp
5 1 (3.13%) Subversion
5 1 (3.13%) Vite
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Marketing
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Advertising
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.38%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Automotive
6 1 (3.13%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (71.88%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 8 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Senior
4 7 (21.88%) Senior Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Digital Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Lead
8 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Web Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (78.13%) React
2 20 (62.50%) CSS
2 20 (62.50%) Node.js
3 18 (56.25%) HTML
4 14 (43.75%) AngularJS
5 13 (40.63%) Express.js
6 12 (37.50%) GraphQL
6 12 (37.50%) Vue
7 11 (34.38%) REST
8 9 (28.13%) React Native
9 8 (25.00%) hapi
9 8 (25.00%) NestJS
9 8 (25.00%) Next.js
10 6 (18.75%) CSS3
10 6 (18.75%) HTML5
11 5 (15.63%) .NET
11 5 (15.63%) Bootstrap
11 5 (15.63%) MACH
11 5 (15.63%) MEAN Stack
11 5 (15.63%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Mobile App
2 10 (31.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.50%) Hackathon
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (6.25%) Social Media
5 1 (3.13%) Learning Management System
5 1 (3.13%) Life Science
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Agile
2 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 13 (40.63%) Content Management
4 12 (37.50%) E-Commerce
5 11 (34.38%) API Development
5 11 (34.38%) Microservices
5 11 (34.38%) Web Development
6 10 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
7 9 (28.13%) DevOps
8 8 (25.00%) Code Quality
8 8 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
8 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (18.75%) BDD
9 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 14 (43.75%) TypeScript
3 7 (21.88%) SQL
4 5 (15.63%) C#
5 4 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Adobe
4 1 (3.13%) Optimizely
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) SAP