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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 544 593
Rank change year-on-year +94 +49 +228
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 14 41 24
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.73% 0.99% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7 41 20
10th Percentile £36,300 £46,250 £62,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £58,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -19.08% -1.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £90,938
90th Percentile £77,000 - £98,975
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year +13.82% -14.58% -7.10%

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 1,929 4,140 4,166
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.55% 12.00% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,204 3,023 3,285
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,143 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.29% -9.09% -

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 July 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 (85.71%) CMS
2 2 (14.29%) Umbraco
3 1 (7.14%) EPiServer
3 1 (7.14%) Strapi
3 1 (7.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (28.57%) Contentstack
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (21.43%) Figma
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (14.29%) Google Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Vercel
6 1 (7.14%) Contentful
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Squarespace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Grunt
2 1 (7.14%) gulp
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Marketing
3 4 (28.57%) Advertising
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Head of Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SEO Executive
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Umbraco Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) React
2 8 (57.14%) Next.js
2 8 (57.14%) Node.js
3 7 (50.00%) Express.js
4 5 (35.71%) CSS
4 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
4 5 (35.71%) MACH
5 4 (28.57%) Django
5 4 (28.57%) Flask
5 4 (28.57%) HTML
6 3 (21.43%) Jest
6 3 (21.43%) REST
6 3 (21.43%) RESTful
7 2 (14.29%) .NET
7 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
7 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (14.29%) Playwright
7 2 (14.29%) Sass
7 2 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Hackathon
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) E-Commerce
2 7 (50.00%) Content Management
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (42.86%) Web Development
4 5 (35.71%) SEO
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) User Experience
5 4 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (28.57%) Information Management
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Prototyping
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
5 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 4 (28.57%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) Optimizely