Content Management System (CMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CMS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 390 313
Rank change year-on-year +30 -77 -71
Permanent jobs citing CMS 775 838 2,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.85% 1.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.25% 7.41% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 675 646 989
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £28,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £64,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £86,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -10.53%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,685 11,308 22,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 11.40% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 7,629 11,596
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,663
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,667 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +1.21% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,875 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,710 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.92% +6.02% -

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CMS in the UK

CMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CMS in the UK

CMS
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +49 717 £47,500 -13.64% 283
UK excluding London +31 525 £45,000 -10.00% 195
Work from Home +69 339 £50,000 -10.71% 164
London +35 222 £51,000 -21.54% 120
South East -21 166 £52,500 +5.00% 61
North of England +102 130 £44,000 -12.00% 57
North West +45 74 £42,500 -15.00% 27
South West -10 73 £61,500 +36.67% 15
Midlands +26 68 £42,500 +9.68% 33
East of England +14 54 £42,500 -37.04% 13
Yorkshire +107 50 £50,000 +13.64% 24
West Midlands +29 35 £37,500 -16.67% 12
East Midlands +10 33 £42,500 +22.00% 21
Scotland -54 14 £60,000 -4.00% 16
Northern Ireland +28 10 £33,500 -4.29% 5
Wales +4 10 £31,250 -51.92% 2
North East -17 6 £65,000 +36.84% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

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
1 135 (17.42%) WordPress
2 119 (15.35%) Umbraco
3 75 (9.68%) Sitecore CMS
4 65 (8.39%) Drupal
5 57 (7.35%) Kentico
6 56 (7.23%) Headless CMS
7 44 (5.68%) IIS
8 22 (2.84%) SharePoint
9 19 (2.45%) EPiServer
10 18 (2.32%) Apache
11 15 (1.94%) nginx
12 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
13 10 (1.29%) Joomla!
14 9 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 8 (1.03%) Apache Solr
16 6 (0.77%) DNN
16 6 (0.77%) Immediacy CMS
16 6 (0.77%) Sitefinity
17 5 (0.65%) Confluence
17 5 (0.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 56 (7.23%) Photoshop
2 43 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (2.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (1.81%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (1.16%) InDesign
6 9 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (1.03%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.77%) Trello
10 5 (0.65%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.52%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.52%) Maya
12 2 (0.26%) Windchill
13 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 29 (3.74%) SDL Web 8
2 24 (3.10%) Shopify
3 22 (2.84%) Magento
4 7 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.13%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 138 (17.81%) Azure
2 91 (11.74%) AWS
3 68 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (7.35%) Google Analytics
5 41 (5.29%) Kontent
6 30 (3.87%) GitHub
7 26 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (2.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 17 (2.19%) SaaS
10 15 (1.94%) Figma
10 15 (1.94%) NuGet
11 14 (1.81%) Canva
11 14 (1.81%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.42%) Google Tag Manager
12 11 (1.42%) npm
13 10 (1.29%) PaaS
14 9 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.90%) Basecamp
15 7 (0.90%) OneDrive
16 6 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.52%) DNS
2 18 (2.32%) Firewall
3 15 (1.94%) Internet
3 15 (1.94%) Intranet
4 13 (1.68%) SSL
5 9 (1.16%) Extranet
6 8 (1.03%) MPLS
6 8 (1.03%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.03%) WAN
7 5 (0.65%) NAS
7 5 (0.65%) SAN
7 5 (0.65%) Skype
7 5 (0.65%) VoIP
8 2 (0.26%) HTTP
8 2 (0.26%) Multicast
8 2 (0.26%) SNA
8 2 (0.26%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (14.32%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.32%) MySQL
3 11 (1.42%) Power BI
4 10 (1.29%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.29%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.90%) MariaDB
7 6 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.52%) MS Access
8 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.39%) Redis
9 3 (0.39%) Tableau
10 2 (0.26%) DB2
10 2 (0.26%) DTS
10 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.26%) Looker
10 2 (0.26%) Metadata
10 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 146 (18.84%) Git
2 53 (6.84%) JIRA
3 41 (5.29%) Visual Studio
4 31 (4.00%) Moq
5 29 (3.74%) NUnit
5 29 (3.74%) TeamCity
6 16 (2.06%) GitLab
6 16 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.94%) git-flow
7 15 (1.94%) Jenkins
7 15 (1.94%) Sourcetree
7 15 (1.94%) SpecFlow
8 8 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.90%) webpack
10 6 (0.77%) gulp
11 3 (0.39%) Grunt
11 3 (0.39%) Selenium
11 3 (0.39%) WiX
12 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
General
1 236 (30.45%) Marketing
2 205 (26.45%) Social Skills
3 63 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.74%) Finance
5 45 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (4.65%) Retail
8 33 (4.26%) Legal
9 25 (3.23%) Publishing
10 19 (2.45%) Law
11 15 (1.94%) Advertising
12 14 (1.81%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.55%) Automotive
14 7 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.90%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
16 5 (0.65%) Games
16 5 (0.65%) Local Government
16 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 349 (45.03%) Developer
2 150 (19.35%) Senior
3 109 (14.06%) Senior Developer
4 101 (13.03%) .NET Developer
5 72 (9.29%) CMS Developer
6 71 (9.16%) C# Developer
6 71 (9.16%) Web Developer
7 65 (8.39%) Applications Developer
8 64 (8.26%) Senior C# Developer
9 63 (8.13%) .NET Applications Developer
10 61 (7.87%) Full Stack Developer
10 61 (7.87%) Project Manager
11 58 (7.48%) Lead
12 57 (7.35%) Senior .NET Developer
13 53 (6.84%) C# .NET Developer
14 49 (6.32%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 48 (6.19%) C# Application Developer
16 47 (6.06%) C# ASP.NET Developer
16 47 (6.06%) Digital Project Manager
16 47 (6.06%) Senior C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (30.19%) HTML
2 228 (29.42%) CSS
3 227 (29.29%) .NET
4 150 (19.35%) ASP.NET
5 149 (19.23%) React
6 122 (15.74%) .NET Framework
7 82 (10.58%) ASP.NET MVC
8 79 (10.19%) .NET Core
8 79 (10.19%) RESTful
9 72 (9.29%) jQuery
10 56 (7.23%) Web Services
11 53 (6.84%) Entity Framework
12 48 (6.19%) Next.js
12 48 (6.19%) SOAP
13 47 (6.06%) Node.js
14 46 (5.94%) Vue
15 44 (5.68%) XML
16 39 (5.03%) REST
17 36 (4.65%) AngularJS
18 33 (4.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.52%) Social Media
2 56 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (3.87%) Blog
5 29 (3.74%) Legacy Code
6 26 (3.35%) Digital Signage
6 26 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.10%) Graphic Design
7 24 (3.10%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.06%) Video Editing
9 13 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
11 11 (1.42%) Client/Server
12 9 (1.16%) e-Learning
13 8 (1.03%) NHS
13 8 (1.03%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.77%) CMDB
15 6 (0.77%) Learning Management System
15 6 (0.77%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.19%) Windows
2 22 (2.84%) Android
3 17 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.16%) Linux
7 4 (0.52%) VMS
8 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (28.52%) Content Management
2 189 (24.39%) Web Development
3 170 (21.94%) E-Commerce
4 150 (19.35%) DevOps
5 149 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (17.55%) MVC
7 131 (16.90%) Agile
8 126 (16.26%) CRM
9 105 (13.55%) Project Management
10 103 (13.29%) Full Stack Development
11 94 (12.13%) SEO
11 94 (12.13%) User Experience
12 87 (11.23%) Project Delivery
13 85 (10.97%) Analytics
14 72 (9.29%) Front End Development
15 60 (7.74%) Digital Marketing
16 59 (7.61%) Scrum
17 51 (6.58%) Customer Service
18 46 (5.94%) Data Privacy
19 45 (5.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 274 (35.35%) JavaScript
2 184 (23.74%) C#
3 129 (16.65%) SQL
4 116 (14.97%) PHP
5 50 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 33 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 31 (4.00%) XPath
8 16 (2.06%) Python
9 13 (1.68%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.03%) C
11 7 (0.90%) Java
12 4 (0.52%) Bash
13 3 (0.39%) C++
13 3 (0.39%) JSX
14 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.26%) VB
14 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.26%) XAML
Qualifications
1 115 (14.84%) Degree
2 17 (2.19%) Security Cleared
3 15 (1.94%) SC Cleared
4 13 (1.68%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.90%) HND
8 5 (0.65%) CCNA
8 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.65%) MCSE
9 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.26%) ISEB
9 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.13%) CIPD
10 1 (0.13%) MCP
10 1 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.03%) QA
2 36 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.19%) GDPR
4 10 (1.29%) SLA
5 7 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.39%) WCAG
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 41 (5.29%) Docker
2 17 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
4 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (1.68%) SCOM
2 8 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.26%) Plesk
3 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.13%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Kibana
4 1 (0.13%) TeamSite
4 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 147 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 83 (10.71%) Adobe
3 76 (9.81%) Google
4 75 (9.68%) Sitecore
5 47 (6.06%) Optimizely
6 17 (2.19%) WooCommerce
7 16 (2.06%) HP
8 15 (1.94%) Cognizant
9 14 (1.81%) Instagram
9 14 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.68%) Riverbed
11 12 (1.55%) Marketo
12 8 (1.03%) Apple
12 8 (1.03%) Facebook
12 8 (1.03%) Meraki
13 7 (0.90%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.90%) SAP
14 6 (0.77%) Twitter