CMS Job Trends in the West Midlands

Content Management System (CMS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 184 164
Rank change year-on-year +20 -20 +85
Permanent jobs citing CMS 14 15 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.80% 5.66% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 13
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £47,092 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.21% -21.51% +18.60%
75th Percentile £195,000 £57,484 £81,250
90th Percentile - £62,000 £100,250
England median annual salary £53,168 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.10% -22.73% -3.24%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 206 265 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.90% 6.40% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 142 159 336
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,950 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £53,300 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% +7.54% +5.46%
75th Percentile £63,400 £60,000 £60,688
90th Percentile £82,250 £65,700 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,750 £57,001 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.97% +8.57% -4.55%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

CMS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CMS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CMS

CMS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CMS in the West Midlands

CMS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +19 6 £190,000 +369.14% 3
Warwickshire +28 3 £35,000 - 1
Bilston - 3 £66,500 - 1
Staffordshire -7 1 - -
CMS
England

CMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (35.71%) Umbraco
2 3 (21.43%) nginx
3 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (7.14%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (7.14%) Strapi
4 1 (7.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (21.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Shopify
2 1 (7.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Figma
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) Apigee
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) Bloomreach
5 1 (7.14%) Boomi
5 1 (7.14%) Contentful
5 1 (7.14%) Contentstack
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Vite
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Chief Technology Officer
3 3 (21.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (21.43%) Product Owner
3 3 (21.43%) Web Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Website Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Graduate
5 1 (7.14%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Graduate Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) CSS
1 9 (64.29%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) Laravel
2 3 (21.43%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (21.43%) SVG
2 3 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (21.43%) Vue
2 3 (21.43%) YAML
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (21.43%) W3C
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) User Experience
2 6 (42.86%) AI
2 6 (42.86%) Web Development
3 5 (35.71%) Content Management
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Monetization
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
4 4 (28.57%) Personalization
4 4 (28.57%) Product Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow
5 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
5 3 (21.43%) Business Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) PHP
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) QA
3 2 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) mParticle
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Optimizely
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Sitecore
2 1 (7.14%) Tealium
2 1 (7.14%) WSO2