Content Management Contracts

Content Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Content Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Content Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 435 497
Rank change year-on-year +21 +62 -69
Contract jobs citing Content Management 172 264 391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.52% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 187 281
10th Percentile £198 £300 £281
25th Percentile £313 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £469 £495
% change year-on-year -20.00% -5.30% +23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £17.64 £16.77 £26.30
25th Percentile £21.41 £18.33 £34.42
Median hourly rate £27.61 £26.50 £47.95
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -44.73% +139.73%
75th Percentile £32.03 £30.00 £61.47
90th Percentile £32.61 £50.13 £69.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.38 £16.77 -
% change year-on-year +15.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Content Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Management in the UK

Content Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +24 142 £498 -0.60% 141
London +44 88 £516 -4.00% 54
UK excluding London +7 66 £375 -20.00% 94
Work from Home +32 61 £448 -14.50% 64
North of England +32 20 £425 -2.30% 24
Scotland +47 16 £179 -52.31% 9
Yorkshire +20 13 £215 -28.33% 6
South East +2 11 £375 -38.90% 35
Midlands +28 10 £502 +11.50% 16
West Midlands +14 10 £502 +11.50% 4
South West -17 8 £375 -6.25% 3
North West +22 6 £500 +3.09% 13
North East +12 1 £650 +20.93% 5
East of England -3 1 - - 8

Content Management
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
1 102 (59.30%) CMS
2 28 (16.28%) SharePoint
3 14 (8.14%) Drupal
4 11 (6.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (4.65%) Confluence
5 8 (4.65%) WordPress
6 6 (3.49%) Headless CMS
7 3 (1.74%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.16%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.58%) Apache
9 1 (0.58%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.58%) IIS
9 1 (0.58%) Jadu
9 1 (0.58%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.58%) Liferay
9 1 (0.58%) Moodle
9 1 (0.58%) Papyrus
9 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (6.98%) Photoshop
2 11 (6.40%) Adobe Illustrator
2 11 (6.40%) MS Visio
3 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.49%) PTC Creo
5 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (1.74%) Acrobat
6 3 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (1.74%) Windchill
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.91%) Magento
3 4 (2.33%) Workfront
4 3 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.74%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.95%) Azure
2 15 (8.72%) AWS
3 14 (8.14%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.65%) GCP
6 6 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.49%) GitHub
7 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.33%) Contentful
8 4 (2.33%) Serverless
9 3 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.74%) Contentstack
9 3 (1.74%) Figma
9 3 (1.74%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.74%) Google Docs
9 3 (1.74%) Miro
9 3 (1.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.30%) Intranet
2 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.72%) Metadata
2 13 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.98%) Power BI
3 12 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.40%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.65%) Data Vault
5 8 (4.65%) Pentaho
5 8 (4.65%) Qlik Sense
5 8 (4.65%) QlikView
5 8 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (2.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 4 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.33%) Tableau
6 4 (2.33%) Tableau Server
7 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.74%) Looker
7 3 (1.74%) OLTP
7 3 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (9.30%) JIRA
2 4 (2.33%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) kappa
General
1 67 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.26%) Public Sector
3 32 (18.60%) Marketing
4 28 (16.28%) Publishing
5 14 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.56%) Finance
6 13 (7.56%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.98%) Retail
8 10 (5.81%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.65%) Electronics
9 8 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.33%) French Language
13 3 (1.74%) Back Office
13 3 (1.74%) Banking
13 3 (1.74%) German Language
14 2 (1.16%) Automotive
14 2 (1.16%) Local Government
15 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (20.93%) Developer
2 29 (16.86%) Senior
3 27 (15.70%) Architect
4 20 (11.63%) Designer
5 19 (11.05%) Content Designer
6 18 (10.47%) Senior Developer
7 12 (6.98%) Lead
8 11 (6.40%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.65%) Technical Writer
10 7 (4.07%) Senior Software Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (2.91%) Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Communications Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Content Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Architect
12 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Data Architect
12 5 (2.91%) Python Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.91%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.30%) HTML
2 11 (6.40%) .NET
3 9 (5.23%) XML
4 8 (4.65%) React
5 6 (3.49%) CSS
6 5 (2.91%) JSON
7 3 (1.74%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.74%) DHTML
7 3 (1.74%) Middleware
7 3 (1.74%) Web Services
8 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.16%) ADO
8 2 (1.16%) Flash
8 2 (1.16%) REST
8 2 (1.16%) SOAP
9 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.58%) jQuery
9 1 (0.58%) JSR 170
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.79%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.23%) Social Media
5 8 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.65%) Reference Data
5 8 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.33%) Handset
6 4 (2.33%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.33%) Wiki
7 3 (1.74%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.16%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.16%) Life Science
8 2 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.91%) Android
2 4 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.07%) Agile
2 28 (16.28%) Analytics
2 28 (16.28%) User Experience
3 25 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (14.53%) SDLC
4 24 (13.95%) Project Management
5 23 (13.37%) SEO
6 20 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (11.63%) Database Optimisation
7 19 (11.05%) Design Patterns
7 19 (11.05%) Software Engineering
8 18 (10.47%) Roadmaps
9 17 (9.88%) Digital Marketing
10 16 (9.30%) E-Commerce
11 15 (8.72%) Data Modelling
12 14 (8.14%) Content Strategy
12 14 (8.14%) User Stories
13 13 (7.56%) Enterprise Architecture
13 13 (7.56%) Project Delivery
14 12 (6.98%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.77%) JavaScript
2 27 (15.70%) SQL
3 26 (15.12%) C#
4 25 (14.53%) Java
5 20 (11.63%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.65%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.91%) Python
8 2 (1.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.58%) C
9 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (23.26%) Degree
2 19 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.74%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.63%) Accessibility
2 17 (9.88%) PCI DSS
3 12 (6.98%) QA
4 6 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.49%) WCAG
5 3 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.74%) PMO
6 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.58%) DICOM
7 1 (0.58%) GDPR
7 1 (0.58%) HL7
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.58%) AppManager
Vendors
1 28 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.88%) Adobe
3 14 (8.14%) Google
3 14 (8.14%) SAP
4 10 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.65%) Informatica
5 8 (4.65%) Oracle
5 8 (4.65%) Sparx
6 7 (4.07%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.33%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.74%) PTC
9 2 (1.16%) Marketo
9 2 (1.16%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.58%) Apple
10 1 (0.58%) Facebook
10 1 (0.58%) Instagram
10 1 (0.58%) OpenText
10 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.58%) Vignette