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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 865 875
Rank change year-on-year +179 +10 +121
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 35 56 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.052% 0.076%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.77% 0.52% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 24 49 45
10th Percentile £40,050 £52,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -15.17% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £64,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £79,250 - £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.82% -5.38% +44.44%

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 4,554 10,672 10,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.10% 9.84% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,865 7,096 7,275
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,487 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,100 £99,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -12.37% +7.78%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +139 28 £70,000 +13.82% 44
UK excluding London +160 19 £70,000 +13.82% 25
London +141 12 £70,000 -26.32% 17
Work from Home +93 11 £55,000 -10.57% 20
Midlands +75 7 £52,500 +5.00% 5
South West +94 4 £75,000 +21.95% 3
East Midlands +52 4 £38,750 -22.50% 3
West Midlands +63 3 £75,000 +114.29% 2
Wales - 3 £70,000 -
South East +65 2 £48,750 -20.73% 2
North West - 2 £60,000 - 8
North of England - 2 £60,000 - 11
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 35 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (14.29%) Strapi
3 3 (8.57%) Confluence
4 2 (5.71%) Umbraco
4 2 (5.71%) WordPress
5 1 (2.86%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) AWS
2 17 (48.57%) Azure
3 13 (37.14%) Contentful
4 11 (31.43%) Serverless
5 9 (25.71%) Figma
6 8 (22.86%) GCP
7 5 (14.29%) Contentstack
8 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
9 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (8.57%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (8.57%) GitHub
9 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.57%) Supabase
9 3 (8.57%) Vercel
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.86%) npm
10 1 (2.86%) SaaS
10 1 (2.86%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) SMS
2 1 (2.86%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) NoSQL
2 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.57%) Mixpanel
5 2 (5.71%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Git
2 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 6 (17.14%) Storybook
3 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.71%) Vite
5 1 (2.86%) GitLab
5 1 (2.86%) Grunt
5 1 (2.86%) gulp
5 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Marketing
3 4 (11.43%) Advertising
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Publishing
6 1 (2.86%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.86%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.86%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (77.14%) Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 10 (28.57%) JavaScript Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Digital Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead
8 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Web Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Architect
9 1 (2.86%) Product Manager
9 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.86%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (74.29%) React
2 21 (60.00%) CSS
3 20 (57.14%) HTML
3 20 (57.14%) Node.js
4 17 (48.57%) GraphQL
5 14 (40.00%) AngularJS
5 14 (40.00%) Express.js
6 13 (37.14%) REST
7 12 (34.29%) Next.js
7 12 (34.29%) Vue
8 10 (28.57%) React Native
9 8 (22.86%) hapi
9 8 (22.86%) NestJS
10 7 (20.00%) CSS3
10 7 (20.00%) HTML5
11 6 (17.14%) Material-UI
12 5 (14.29%) Bootstrap
12 5 (14.29%) Flask
12 5 (14.29%) MACH
12 5 (14.29%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Mobile App
2 10 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.43%) Hackathon
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (5.71%) Social Media
5 1 (2.86%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.86%) Life Science
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 16 (45.71%) Web Development
3 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 14 (40.00%) E-Commerce
5 13 (37.14%) Content Management
5 13 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (31.43%) Mentoring
6 11 (31.43%) Microservices
7 10 (28.57%) API Development
7 10 (28.57%) DevOps
7 10 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (25.71%) Code Quality
8 9 (25.71%) Mobile Application Development
8 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (25.71%) Sprint Planning
8 9 (25.71%) Sprint Retrospective
9 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (17.14%) BDD
9 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (17.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) JavaScript
2 16 (45.71%) TypeScript
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (8.57%) PHP
6 2 (5.71%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.71%) Adobe
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) SAP