Hybrid/Remote Headless CMS Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Headless CMS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 479 505
Rank change year-on-year +74 +26 +273
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 20 16 9
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.069% 0.036%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.33% 0.56% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 8
10th Percentile £42,300 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -14.58% -7.10%
75th Percentile £84,375 £64,750 £87,188
90th Percentile £99,250 - £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £51,000 £69,750
% change year-on-year +37.25% -26.88% -10.00%

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 1,508 2,871 2,858
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.31% 12.34% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 1,902 2,387
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £33,265
25th Percentile £40,865 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +6.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £116,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £100,474
UK median annual salary £53,844 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% -1.79% +1.82%

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 Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Headless CMS

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 16 September 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 (60.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) EPiServer
2 1 (5.00%) Strapi
2 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Shopify
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Amazon S3
2 9 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (45.00%) Serverless
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (40.00%) Figma
3 8 (40.00%) Google Analytics
3 8 (40.00%) Vercel
4 6 (30.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (20.00%) Contentstack
6 1 (5.00%) Contentful
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Grunt
3 1 (5.00%) gulp
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Marketing
3 4 (20.00%) Advertising
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
2 10 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (40.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SEO Executive
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Delivery
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Software Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) React
2 14 (70.00%) Next.js
3 13 (65.00%) Express.js
3 13 (65.00%) Node.js
4 10 (50.00%) GraphQL
5 9 (45.00%) CSS
5 9 (45.00%) HTML
5 9 (45.00%) Jest
6 8 (40.00%) Playwright
6 8 (40.00%) RESTful
6 8 (40.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 8 (40.00%) Vitest
7 4 (20.00%) Django
7 4 (20.00%) Flask
7 4 (20.00%) MACH
8 2 (10.00%) REST
8 2 (10.00%) Sass
9 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
9 1 (5.00%) LESS
9 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Hackathon
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) E-Commerce
2 16 (80.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Analytics
3 10 (50.00%) SEO
3 10 (50.00%) User Experience
4 9 (45.00%) ERP
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (40.00%) Integration Testing
5 8 (40.00%) Pair Programming
5 8 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
5 8 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (40.00%) Unit Testing
5 8 (40.00%) UX Design
5 8 (40.00%) Web Accessibility
6 6 (30.00%) Content Management
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (55.00%) TypeScript
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Apple
2 2 (10.00%) Optimizely