Headless CMS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 554 632
Rank change year-on-year +169 +78 +157
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 12 38 41
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.080% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.67% 0.95% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 7 38 32
10th Percentile £41,100 - £65,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £58,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -20.65% +55.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £77,000 - £99,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +13.82% -20.65% +24.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,802 3,989 5,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 11.79% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 2,838 3,804
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,772 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

Headless CMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Headless CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Headless CMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Headless CMS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Headless CMS.

Headless CMS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Headless CMS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Headless CMS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Headless CMS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Headless CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (100.00%) CMS
2 2 (16.67%) Strapi
2 2 (16.67%) Umbraco
3 1 (8.33%) EPiServer
3 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (33.33%) Contentstack
4 2 (16.67%) Contentful
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Figma
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Squarespace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Grunt
2 1 (8.33%) gulp
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Marketing
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Advertising
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Head of Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) React
2 6 (50.00%) Next.js
2 6 (50.00%) Node.js
3 5 (41.67%) Express.js
3 5 (41.67%) MACH
4 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 4 (33.33%) Django
4 4 (33.33%) Flask
5 3 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
6 2 (16.67%) HTML
6 2 (16.67%) REST
6 2 (16.67%) Vue
7 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
7 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (8.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Hackathon
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) E-Commerce
3 6 (50.00%) Content Management
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Web Development
5 4 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Community of Practice
5 4 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (33.33%) Information Management
5 4 (33.33%) Product Information Management
5 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
5 4 (33.33%) SDLC
5 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Software Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe
1 1 (8.33%) Optimizely