Content Editor Contracts

Content Editor
UK

The median Content Editor daily rate in the UK is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 706 834
Rank change year-on-year +136 +128 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Content Editor 12 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.010% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.011% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 16
10th Percentile £189 £193 £216
25th Percentile £212 £200 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £395
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.39% +39.82%
75th Percentile £394 £388 £439
90th Percentile £400 £391 £483
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £369 £263
% change year-on-year -56.61% +40.48% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Content Editor
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Content Editor in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Content Editor in the UK

Content Editor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Content Editor in the UK

Content Editor
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Editor over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Editor in the UK

Content Editor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Editor in the UK

Content Editor
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Editor within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +129 11 £375 +7.14% 1
London +109 10 £375 +87.50%
Work from Home +128 7 £375 +87.50% 2
UK excluding London +57 2 £160 -56.61% 2
North of England - 1 £160 - 1
North West - 1 £160 -
Scotland - 1 - -

Content Editor Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Content Editor contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Content Editor in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) CMS
2 6 (50.00%) Content Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) User Research
3 4 (33.33%) Adobe
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
4 3 (25.00%) Jadu
4 3 (25.00%) Content Management
4 3 (25.00%) Local Government
4 3 (25.00%) Intranet
4 3 (25.00%) HTML
4 3 (25.00%) Publishing
4 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (25.00%) Content Writing
5 2 (16.67%) SEO
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Marketing
5 2 (16.67%) WordPress
5 2 (16.67%) UX Design
5 2 (16.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Social Media
6 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (8.33%) Web Accessibility
6 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (8.33%) Statistics

Content Editor Skill Set
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 8 (66.67%) CMS
2 3 (25.00%) Jadu
3 2 (16.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (16.67%) WordPress
4 1 (8.33%) Drupal
4 1 (8.33%) EPiServer
4 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
4 1 (8.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Figma
1 1 (8.33%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Intranet
General
1 3 (25.00%) Local Government
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (25.00%) Publishing
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Life Science
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Content Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) User Research
3 3 (25.00%) Content Management
3 3 (25.00%) Content Writing
3 3 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) SEO
4 2 (16.67%) UX Design
5 1 (8.33%) A/B Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Content Curation
5 1 (8.33%) Copywriting
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Personalization
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Statistics
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Web Accessibility
5 1 (8.33%) Web Design
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Optimizely