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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 840 896 1027
Rank change year-on-year +56 +131 -181
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 56 74 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.071% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.52% 0.61% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 49 45 67
10th Percentile £47,500 £60,500 -
25th Percentile £58,250 £70,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £77,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +24.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £64,750 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £75,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.00% +57.89% -5.00%

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 10,690 12,060 21,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 11.52% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,047 7,947 11,793
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Top 9 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 27 April 2024. 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 +97 56 £61,500 -23.13% 14
UK excluding London +40 53 £61,500 -18.00% 11
Work from Home +89 38 £61,500 -20.65% 11
South East +39 24 £61,500 -20.65% 5
South West +10 19 £61,500 -14.58% 2
Midlands - 10 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands - 7 £35,000 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £50,000 - 1
London +94 2 £95,000 +5.56% 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 56 (100.00%) CMS
2 40 (71.43%) Kentico
3 35 (62.50%) IIS
3 35 (62.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 35 (62.50%) Umbraco
4 7 (12.50%) WordPress
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.79%) Apache
5 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 40 (71.43%) Azure
2 35 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 35 (62.50%) Kontent
3 6 (10.71%) AWS
4 3 (5.36%) Google Analytics
5 2 (3.57%) Figma
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.79%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) gulp
2 1 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 12 (21.43%) Marketing
2 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Games
3 2 (3.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Finance
4 1 (1.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (94.64%) Developer
2 40 (71.43%) .NET Developer
2 40 (71.43%) Senior
2 40 (71.43%) Senior Developer
3 38 (67.86%) Senior .NET Developer
4 35 (62.50%) .NET Applications Developer
4 35 (62.50%) Applications Developer
4 35 (62.50%) CMS Developer
5 33 (58.93%) ASP.NET Developer
5 33 (58.93%) C# .NET Developer
5 33 (58.93%) C# Application Developer
5 33 (58.93%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 33 (58.93%) C# Developer
5 33 (58.93%) Senior .NET Applications Developer
5 33 (58.93%) Senior Applications Developer
5 33 (58.93%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 33 (58.93%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 33 (58.93%) Senior C# Application Developer
5 33 (58.93%) Senior C# ASP.NET Developer
5 33 (58.93%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (87.50%) React
2 40 (71.43%) .NET
2 40 (71.43%) .NET Core
2 40 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 40 (71.43%) Next.js
3 36 (64.29%) RESTful
4 35 (62.50%) .NET Framework
4 35 (62.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 13 (23.21%) HTML
6 12 (21.43%) CSS
7 9 (16.07%) Node.js
8 7 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (10.71%) Laravel
10 2 (3.57%) Express.js
10 2 (3.57%) Framer.js
10 2 (3.57%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.57%) GreenSock GSAP
10 2 (3.57%) HTML5
10 2 (3.57%) Semantic HTML
10 2 (3.57%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (64.29%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.14%) Social Media
3 2 (3.57%) Animation
4 1 (1.79%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (87.50%) Web Development
2 42 (75.00%) DevOps
3 40 (71.43%) CRM
3 40 (71.43%) E-Commerce
3 40 (71.43%) ERP
3 40 (71.43%) MVC
4 36 (64.29%) Mobile First
5 35 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
5 35 (62.50%) Data Privacy
5 35 (62.50%) Deployment Automation
5 35 (62.50%) Presales
5 35 (62.50%) Project Delivery
5 35 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
6 15 (26.79%) Front End Development
7 5 (8.93%) User Stories
7 5 (8.93%) Web Application Development
8 4 (7.14%) Analytics
8 4 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.14%) User Experience
9 3 (5.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (89.29%) JavaScript
2 40 (71.43%) C#
3 10 (17.86%) PHP
4 3 (5.36%) C
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) SQL
5 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) cPanel
1 1 (1.79%) Plesk
Vendors
1 40 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 35 (62.50%) Optimizely
2 35 (62.50%) Sitecore
3 3 (5.36%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) Hotjar
4 1 (1.79%) Adobe