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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 446 472
Rank change year-on-year +85 +26 +224
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 16 13 4
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.069% 0.019%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.41% 0.56% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £45,225
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £62,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,250 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% -51.27% +4.67%
75th Percentile £78,125 £39,500 £87,188
90th Percentile £99,250 £49,125 £91,125
UK median annual salary £57,500 £39,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +47.44% -37.60% -18.03%

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 1,133 2,312 2,363
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.41% 12.29% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 835 1,622 1,880
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £122,000 £138,750 £95,063
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Headless CMS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Headless CMS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Headless CMS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Headless CMS over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Headless CMS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Headless CMS
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 8 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Shopify
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Figma
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (50.00%) Google Analytics
2 8 (50.00%) Serverless
2 8 (50.00%) Vercel
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Senior
2 8 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (12.50%) SEO Executive
3 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Website Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Software Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Shopify Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) React
2 10 (62.50%) Next.js
3 9 (56.25%) GraphQL
3 9 (56.25%) Jest
3 9 (56.25%) Tailwind CSS
4 8 (50.00%) CSS
4 8 (50.00%) Express.js
4 8 (50.00%) HTML
4 8 (50.00%) Node.js
4 8 (50.00%) Playwright
4 8 (50.00%) RESTful
4 8 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) E-Commerce
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Analytics
2 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (62.50%) SEO
2 10 (62.50%) User Experience
3 9 (56.25%) ERP
3 9 (56.25%) Unit Testing
4 8 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 8 (50.00%) Pair Programming
4 8 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
4 8 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (50.00%) UX Design
4 8 (50.00%) Web Accessibility
5 3 (18.75%) CRM
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) TypeScript
2 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Apple
2 2 (12.50%) HubSpot
3 1 (6.25%) Optimizely