Headless CMS Jobs

Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 770 731 938
Rank change year-on-year -39 +207 -38
Permanent jobs citing Headless CMS 20 30 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.052% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.35% 0.47% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 66
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -7.14% +58.19%
75th Percentile £46,250 £75,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £57,700 £90,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -37.60% +8.70% +21.05%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 5,780 6,350 18,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.61% 11.02% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,498 4,931 10,089
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,762 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

Headless CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Headless CMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Headless CMS.

Salary trend for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Headless CMS over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Headless CMS in the UK

Headless CMS
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Headless CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -36 20 £39,000 -40.00% 5
UK excluding London -30 17 £39,000 -37.60% 6
Work from Home +33 12 £38,250 -46.88% 4
Midlands - 12 £37,500 - 1
East Midlands - 8 £37,500 - 1
West Midlands - 4 - -
London +20 3 - - 1
South East -35 3 - -
South West -7 1 £61,500 -14.58% 1
North West - 1 £52,000 - 2
North of England - 1 £52,000 - 2

Headless CMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (100.00%) CMS
2 4 (20.00%) Strapi
3 3 (15.00%) WordPress
4 1 (5.00%) Drupal
4 1 (5.00%) IIS
4 1 (5.00%) Kentico
4 1 (5.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Google Analytics
2 4 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 3 (15.00%) Vercel
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Contentful
4 1 (5.00%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Broadband
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) webpack
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 4 (20.00%) PHP Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Web Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Magento Developer
4 3 (15.00%) WordPress Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) React
2 14 (70.00%) GraphQL
3 10 (50.00%) Next.js
4 8 (40.00%) CSS
4 8 (40.00%) HTML
5 7 (35.00%) REST
6 4 (20.00%) RESTful
6 4 (20.00%) Vue
7 3 (15.00%) HTML5
7 3 (15.00%) Sass
7 3 (15.00%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (5.00%) .NET
8 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
8 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
8 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
8 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (5.00%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) FMCG
1 3 (15.00%) Learning Management System
1 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
1 11 (55.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (50.00%) Web Development
3 9 (45.00%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (45.00%) E-Commerce
4 8 (40.00%) API Development
4 8 (40.00%) B2B
4 8 (40.00%) B2C
4 8 (40.00%) CRM
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) User Experience
4 8 (40.00%) UX Design
5 5 (25.00%) Mobile First
5 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (20.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) C
4 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Proxmox
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Adobe
2 4 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Optimizely
3 1 (5.00%) Sitecore