Hybrid/Remote CMS Job Trends

Content Management System (CMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring CMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 282 372
Rank change year-on-year -45 +90 -16
Permanent jobs citing CMS 140 141 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.84% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.28% 9.51% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 91 71 84
10th Percentile £33,750 £27,000 £29,125
25th Percentile £37,750 £35,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +29.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £63,000 £72,500 £64,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -22.73%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

CMS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,509 1,483 2,757
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.05% 8.84% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 980 1,814
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,225 £31,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £135,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,930
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.66% +1.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CMS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CMS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CMS

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CMS over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

CMS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 27 (19.29%) WordPress
2 17 (12.14%) Umbraco
3 11 (7.86%) Confluence
4 7 (5.00%) Headless CMS
5 6 (4.29%) Drupal
5 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
6 5 (3.57%) EPiServer
7 4 (2.86%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (2.14%) DNN
8 3 (2.14%) Immediacy CMS
8 3 (2.14%) Kentico
8 3 (2.14%) Sitefinity
9 2 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (1.43%) SAS
10 1 (0.71%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.57%) CorelDRAW
3 4 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.86%) Trello
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.71%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.29%) Figma
1 13 (9.29%) SaaS
2 12 (8.57%) Azure
3 10 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
3 10 (7.14%) AWS
3 10 (7.14%) Contentsquare
4 9 (6.43%) Google Analytics
5 7 (5.00%) Canva
6 6 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 4 (2.86%) ClickUp
8 4 (2.86%) MailChimp
9 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.14%) Contentful
9 3 (2.14%) GitHub
9 3 (2.14%) Serverless
10 2 (1.43%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) Broadband
2 5 (3.57%) HTTP
3 2 (1.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.71%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.43%) MySQL
3 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.43%) Power BI
3 2 (1.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.71%) Big Data
4 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.71%) Looker
4 1 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
General
1 69 (49.29%) Social Skills
2 42 (30.00%) Marketing
3 19 (13.57%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (10.00%) Finance
4 14 (10.00%) Publishing
5 13 (9.29%) Games
6 12 (8.57%) Legal
6 12 (8.57%) Retail
7 11 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.86%) Banking
11 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Advertising
12 2 (1.43%) German Language
12 2 (1.43%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.71%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (17.14%) Lead
2 22 (15.71%) Developer
3 19 (13.57%) Senior
4 13 (9.29%) Marketing Executive
5 9 (6.43%) Senior Developer
6 8 (5.71%) Web Developer
6 8 (5.71%) Web Manager
7 7 (5.00%) Architect
7 7 (5.00%) CMS Developer
8 6 (4.29%) Development Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Web Development Manager
9 5 (3.57%) Administrator
9 5 (3.57%) Author
9 5 (3.57%) Platform Manager
9 5 (3.57%) Product Owner
9 5 (3.57%) Technical Author
10 4 (2.86%) Content Manager
10 4 (2.86%) Designer
10 4 (2.86%) Product Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) HTML
2 12 (8.57%) .NET
2 12 (8.57%) Node.js
3 11 (7.86%) React
4 8 (5.71%) CSS
5 7 (5.00%) XML
6 5 (3.57%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (2.86%) Flash
7 4 (2.86%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.14%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.14%) CSS3
8 3 (2.14%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.14%) HTML5
8 3 (2.14%) RESTful
8 3 (2.14%) Semantic HTML
8 3 (2.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.14%) Social Media
2 13 (9.29%) Blog
3 10 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.14%) Web Conferencing
4 9 (6.43%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.57%) Graphic Design
6 5 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.86%) Online Gambling
7 4 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.14%) Tandem
8 3 (2.14%) Video Editing
9 2 (1.43%) Photography
10 1 (0.71%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.71%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.00%) Content Management
2 38 (27.14%) User Experience
3 36 (25.71%) AI
4 35 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (24.29%) SEO
6 31 (22.14%) Analytics
7 30 (21.43%) Customer Experience
8 27 (19.29%) Agile
9 23 (16.43%) CRM
10 21 (15.00%) Content Strategy
11 19 (13.57%) Project Management
11 19 (13.57%) Web Development
12 18 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (12.14%) Roadmaps
14 16 (11.43%) Mentoring
15 15 (10.71%) B2B
15 15 (10.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 14 (10.00%) Decision-Making
16 14 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.86%) JavaScript
2 10 (7.14%) C#
3 9 (6.43%) SQL
4 8 (5.71%) PHP
4 8 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.86%) C
6 3 (2.14%) Python
7 2 (1.43%) Java
7 2 (1.43%) VB
7 2 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (7.86%) Degree
2 5 (3.57%) HNC
2 5 (3.57%) HND
3 4 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.29%) Accessibility
2 14 (10.00%) WCAG
3 3 (2.14%) SLA
4 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) QA
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) AppManager
Vendors
1 18 (12.86%) Adobe
2 17 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.43%) Google
4 8 (5.71%) HubSpot
5 7 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.57%) Optimizely
7 4 (2.86%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.86%) TikTok
8 3 (2.14%) Alterian
9 2 (1.43%) Ahrefs
9 2 (1.43%) JDA
9 2 (1.43%) Oracle
9 2 (1.43%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.71%) dotdigital
10 1 (0.71%) Pardot