Content Management System (CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 320 340
Rank change year-on-year +36 +20 -75
Contract jobs citing CMS 343 466 689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.81% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.28% 7.41% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 350 485
10th Percentile £203 £263 £325
25th Percentile £273 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £700 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £405 £451
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.10% +20.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 17
10th Percentile £12.85 £16.77 £27.15
25th Percentile - £17.51 £37.25
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% -72.67% +280.95%
75th Percentile £27.61 £26.56 £77.50
90th Percentile £32.48 £36.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £16.77 £75.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -77.64% +278.50%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

CMS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,143 6,291 11,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 10.91% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 4,415 7,567
10th Percentile £256 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 147 226
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £13.94
25th Percentile £15.43 £19.38 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +83.67% +8.89%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.47 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.04% +44.74% -1.45%

CMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMS.

Daily rate trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMS.

Hourly rate trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +44 301 £425 -5.56% 246
London +74 176 £425 -15.00% 96
UK excluding London +7 132 £375 -7.41% 170
Work from Home +5 123 £448 -0.44% 131
North of England +17 31 £404 -5.00% 50
South West +18 29 £308 -20.65% 13
Midlands +29 24 £600 +35.21% 32
West Midlands +30 23 £600 +41.18% 15
North West +22 20 £388 -8.82% 26
Scotland +31 18 £179 -57.92% 12
South East -7 16 £446 +11.56% 50
East of England -18 14 £650 +30.00% 11
Yorkshire +19 10 £408 -5.23% 19
East Midlands +15 1 £410 -18.00% 17
North East +12 1 £650 +20.93% 5

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 33 (9.62%) Headless CMS
2 31 (9.04%) Drupal
3 21 (6.12%) Sitecore CMS
4 19 (5.54%) Umbraco
5 16 (4.66%) WordPress
6 15 (4.37%) SharePoint
7 11 (3.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 11 (3.21%) Kentico
8 6 (1.75%) Confluence
9 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (1.17%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.87%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.87%) Jadu
12 1 (0.29%) Apache
12 1 (0.29%) CoreMedia CMS
12 1 (0.29%) IIS
12 1 (0.29%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 14 (4.08%) Photoshop
3 11 (3.21%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (1.75%) PTC Creo
5 3 (0.87%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.87%) Windchill
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (3.79%) Magento
2 3 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.58%) Workfront
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.29%) Azure
2 29 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (8.16%) AWS
4 19 (5.54%) GCP
5 15 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (4.37%) Azure Pipelines
5 15 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
5 15 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (2.92%) Contentful
7 10 (2.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 9 (2.62%) SaaS
9 7 (2.04%) GitHub
9 7 (2.04%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.46%) Figma
11 5 (1.46%) PaaS
11 5 (1.46%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (1.17%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.96%) Intranet
2 6 (1.75%) DNS
2 6 (1.75%) HTTP
2 6 (1.75%) SSL
3 4 (1.17%) Skype
3 4 (1.17%) VPN
4 3 (0.87%) FTP
4 3 (0.87%) Internet
4 3 (0.87%) SMTP
5 1 (0.29%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.17%) DB2
3 4 (1.17%) Metadata
4 3 (0.87%) Looker
5 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.58%) Jackrabbit
5 2 (0.58%) MySQL
5 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.58%) Redis
5 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (10.50%) Git
2 26 (7.58%) JIRA
3 9 (2.62%) Selenium
4 8 (2.33%) webpack
5 7 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.17%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.87%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.87%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.87%) Subversion
8 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.58%) gulp
9 2 (0.58%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.58%) rollup.js
9 2 (0.58%) Storybook
9 2 (0.58%) Vite
10 1 (0.29%) Gatling
General
1 112 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.58%) Marketing
3 39 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.45%) Publishing
5 23 (6.71%) Finance
6 19 (5.54%) Retail
7 17 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.62%) Banking
9 8 (2.33%) Back Office
10 7 (2.04%) Legal
11 6 (1.75%) French Language
11 6 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.75%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.46%) Local Government
12 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.17%) German Language
13 4 (1.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (28.57%) Developer
2 45 (13.12%) Senior
3 40 (11.66%) Analyst
4 27 (7.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 19 (5.54%) Architect
5 19 (5.54%) Designer
5 19 (5.54%) Project Manager
6 18 (5.25%) Content Designer
6 18 (5.25%) Senior Developer
7 17 (4.96%) .NET Developer
7 17 (4.96%) SOC Analyst
8 15 (4.37%) Content Manager
9 14 (4.08%) Applications Support
9 14 (4.08%) Applications Support Analyst
9 14 (4.08%) Consultant
9 14 (4.08%) Project Analyst
9 14 (4.08%) Project Support Analyst
9 14 (4.08%) Support Analyst
10 13 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (3.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (20.12%) HTML
2 62 (18.08%) CSS
3 55 (16.03%) React
4 47 (13.70%) .NET
5 25 (7.29%) .NET Core
6 19 (5.54%) ASP.NET
7 18 (5.25%) jQuery
8 17 (4.96%) GraphQL
9 16 (4.66%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.79%) ASP.NET MVC
10 13 (3.79%) Node.js
11 12 (3.50%) Next.js
12 11 (3.21%) REST
13 10 (2.92%) Vue
14 9 (2.62%) DOM
14 9 (2.62%) Laravel
15 7 (2.04%) Entity Framework
15 7 (2.04%) GatsbyJS
15 7 (2.04%) HTML5
15 7 (2.04%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.96%) Cyberattack
2 16 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.37%) Social Media
4 14 (4.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 7 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.04%) EPoS
7 7 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.17%) Acoustics
10 4 (1.17%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.17%) Handset
10 4 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.87%) Graphic Design
11 3 (0.87%) Life Science
11 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.96%) Linux
1 17 (4.96%) Windows
2 4 (1.17%) VMS
3 3 (0.87%) Android
3 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.61%) Content Management
2 84 (24.49%) Agile
3 62 (18.08%) User Experience
4 46 (13.41%) SEO
5 43 (12.54%) E-Commerce
6 41 (11.95%) DevOps
7 37 (10.79%) Analytics
8 35 (10.20%) Front End Development
8 35 (10.20%) Project Management
9 34 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (9.33%) Scrum
11 30 (8.75%) Migration
12 27 (7.87%) MVC
12 27 (7.87%) Web Development
13 23 (6.71%) Full Stack Development
14 21 (6.12%) Content Strategy
15 20 (5.83%) CRM
15 20 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (5.83%) Roadmaps
16 19 (5.54%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.45%) JavaScript
2 35 (10.20%) C#
3 30 (8.75%) TypeScript
4 14 (4.08%) Bicep
5 13 (3.79%) Python
5 13 (3.79%) SQL
6 10 (2.92%) Java
7 9 (2.62%) PHP
8 4 (1.17%) COBOL
9 3 (0.87%) Perl
9 3 (0.87%) Ruby
9 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.58%) Bash
10 2 (0.58%) REXX
10 2 (0.58%) SELCOPY
11 1 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.29%) Degree
3 10 (2.92%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.58%) Accessibility
2 32 (9.33%) QA
3 23 (6.71%) WCAG
4 6 (1.75%) PMO
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.29%) DICOM
8 1 (0.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.17%) Terraform
3 3 (0.87%) Ansible
3 3 (0.87%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.29%) AppManager
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 69 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.12%) Sitecore
3 20 (5.83%) Splunk
4 19 (5.54%) Adobe
5 17 (4.96%) Darktrace
5 17 (4.96%) FireEye
5 17 (4.96%) LogRhythm
6 16 (4.66%) Google
7 13 (3.79%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.50%) Optimizely
9 10 (2.92%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.33%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.75%) SAP
12 4 (1.17%) Becrypt
12 4 (1.17%) Citrix
12 4 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.17%) Hotjar
12 4 (1.17%) IBM
12 4 (1.17%) ICL
12 4 (1.17%) Screaming Frog