Digital Content Editor Contracts

Digital Content Editor
UK

The median Digital Content Editor daily rate in the UK is £160 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 - 843
Rank change year-on-year - - -147
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Content Editor 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £346
25th Percentile £155 - £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 - £373
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.62%
75th Percentile £165 - £408
90th Percentile - - £445
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 - -
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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Digital Content Editor
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Content Editor in the UK

Digital Content Editor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Content Editor in the UK

Digital Content Editor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Content Editor in the UK

Digital 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 Digital Content Editor within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 - 5 £160 -
London - 4 - -
Work from Home - 2 - -
UK excluding London - 2 £160 -
North of England - 1 £160 -
North West - 1 £160 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Digital 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 Digital Content Editor in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) User Research
1 3 (50.00%) Content Writing
1 3 (50.00%) Content Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Intranet
1 3 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) Squarespace
3 1 (16.67%) Optimizely
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Life Science
3 1 (16.67%) Copywriting
3 1 (16.67%) Drupal
3 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
3 1 (16.67%) EPiServer
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) WordPress
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
3 1 (16.67%) Social Media

Digital 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 3 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Drupal
2 1 (16.67%) EPiServer
2 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
2 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
1 1 (16.67%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Intranet
General
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Content Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Content Writing
1 3 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (16.67%) Copywriting
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) SEO
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
3 1 (16.67%) Web Design
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Optimizely