Blogs
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Blog over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 470 395
Rank change year-on-year -119 -75 +29
Permanent jobs citing Blog 321 643 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.61% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 1.43% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 214 158 393
10th Percentile £26,075 £38,856 £32,177
25th Percentile £30,750 £46,225 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,918 £65,600 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% -9.52% +11.54%
75th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £52,500 £61,040
% change year-on-year -33.33% -13.99% +22.08%

All Generic Skills
UK

Blog is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blog in the UK

Blog
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Blog in the UK

Blog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blog over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Blog in the UK

Blog
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blog within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -105 279 £37,500 -42.75% 118
UK excluding London +109 171 £35,000 -33.33% 74
Work from Home +171 162 £37,500 -50.00% 76
London -134 119 £38,918 -42.34% 49
South East +80 50 £37,500 - 14
North of England +65 49 £30,000 -52.00% 28
North West +45 44 £28,750 - 20
East of England +19 35 £40,649 -18.70% 5
Midlands +20 15 £28,000 -40.60% 12
West Midlands - 11 £26,500 - 4
South West 0 9 £26,000 -42.46% 9
Wales - 7 £42,000 - 4
Yorkshire +95 4 - - 8
East Midlands -12 4 £72,500 +84.62% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £42,000 - 2
Scotland - 2 £25,000 - 6
North East -23 1 £35,000 -47.76% 1

Blog
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 30 (9.35%) CMS
2 24 (7.48%) WordPress
3 14 (4.36%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.87%) SAS
5 5 (1.56%) Drupal
6 3 (0.93%) Confluence
7 2 (0.62%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.31%) Jetty
8 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 32 (9.97%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (5.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (4.36%) Photoshop
6 8 (2.49%) InDesign
6 8 (2.49%) SPSS
7 7 (2.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (1.87%) Chatbot
9 4 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (1.25%) Stata
10 2 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (1.56%) Magento
1 5 (1.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 59 (18.38%) AWS
2 25 (7.79%) Azure
2 25 (7.79%) GCP
3 16 (4.98%) Canva
4 15 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (4.36%) Serverless
6 13 (4.05%) GitHub
7 11 (3.43%) Google Analytics
7 11 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.12%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.12%) MailChimp
9 8 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.18%) Figma
10 7 (2.18%) SaaS
11 6 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 6 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.87%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.87%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.56%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
2 2 (0.62%) Intranet
3 1 (0.31%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.67%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.43%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.12%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.49%) Metadata
5 8 (2.49%) MySQL
5 8 (2.49%) Redis
6 7 (2.18%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.87%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.93%) Big Data
9 3 (0.93%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.62%) Power BI
10 2 (0.62%) Tableau
11 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (7.17%) Git
2 17 (5.30%) TeamCity
3 6 (1.87%) JIRA
4 5 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.56%) JUnit
5 3 (0.93%) GitLab
5 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.31%) Phabricator
6 1 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 131 (40.81%) Marketing
2 116 (36.14%) Social Skills
3 65 (20.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (13.71%) Retail
5 39 (12.15%) Finance
6 38 (11.84%) Banking
7 35 (10.90%) Law
8 30 (9.35%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (5.61%) Automotive
12 16 (4.98%) Advertising
13 14 (4.36%) Public Sector
14 13 (4.05%) Local Government
15 11 (3.43%) Legal
15 11 (3.43%) Telecoms
16 8 (2.49%) Publishing
17 7 (2.18%) Back Office
17 7 (2.18%) Brand Awareness
17 7 (2.18%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 42 (13.08%) Senior
2 36 (11.21%) Developer
3 23 (7.17%) Lead
4 22 (6.85%) Senior Manager
5 20 (6.23%) Consultant
6 17 (5.30%) Analyst
7 16 (4.98%) Architect
8 15 (4.67%) Administrator
8 15 (4.67%) E-Commerce Administrator
8 15 (4.67%) Linux Consultant
8 15 (4.67%) Web Administrator
9 14 (4.36%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (3.74%) Communications Officer
11 11 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.43%) Linux Developer
11 11 (3.43%) Software Consultant
11 11 (3.43%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.12%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.12%) Digital Executive
12 10 (3.12%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.54%) HTML
2 20 (6.23%) CSS
2 20 (6.23%) React
3 14 (4.36%) Node.js
4 12 (3.74%) REST
5 11 (3.43%) GraphQL
6 9 (2.80%) .NET
6 9 (2.80%) Laravel
7 8 (2.49%) Symfony
8 6 (1.87%) Next.js
8 6 (1.87%) RESTful
8 6 (1.87%) Svelte
8 6 (1.87%) XML
9 5 (1.56%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.56%) Dagger
9 5 (1.56%) Kafka
9 5 (1.56%) Redux
9 5 (1.56%) Retrofit
9 5 (1.56%) RxJava
9 5 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 119 (37.07%) Social Media
2 25 (7.79%) Graphic Design
3 21 (6.54%) IoT
4 18 (5.61%) Client/Server
4 18 (5.61%) Raspberry Pi
4 18 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (4.98%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.67%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.12%) Video Editing
9 9 (2.80%) Digital Media
10 8 (2.49%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.18%) Animation
11 7 (2.18%) NHS
12 6 (1.87%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.56%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
14 4 (1.25%) Hedge funds
14 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.10%) Android
1 26 (8.10%) Apple iOS
2 24 (7.48%) Linux
3 2 (0.62%) VMS
3 2 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (19.31%) SEO
2 54 (16.82%) Agile
3 51 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (14.33%) Analytics
5 45 (14.02%) Fintech
6 35 (10.90%) Business Development
6 35 (10.90%) Disruptive Innovation
7 31 (9.66%) Digital Marketing
7 31 (9.66%) Project Management
7 31 (9.66%) Software Engineering
8 30 (9.35%) B2B
9 26 (8.10%) Microservices
10 24 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 24 (7.48%) CI/CD
10 24 (7.48%) Data Science
10 24 (7.48%) E-Commerce
11 23 (7.17%) Copywriting
11 23 (7.17%) Data Management
11 23 (7.17%) Test Automation
11 23 (7.17%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.66%) Python
2 30 (9.35%) Java
3 24 (7.48%) SQL
4 23 (7.17%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.23%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.30%) Go
7 16 (4.98%) C
8 12 (3.74%) C++
9 11 (3.43%) R
10 10 (3.12%) PHP
11 9 (2.80%) C#
12 8 (2.49%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.87%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.87%) Ruby
14 5 (1.56%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.56%) Rust
14 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.93%) Scala
15 3 (0.93%) Swift
16 2 (0.62%) Bash
Qualifications
1 64 (19.94%) Degree
2 12 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.49%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.18%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.56%) PhD
7 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.10%) QA
2 15 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.87%) GDPR
4 5 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) PMBOK
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (8.10%) Kubernetes
1 26 (8.10%) Terraform
2 11 (3.43%) Grafana
3 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.56%) logstash
5 1 (0.31%) Ansible
5 1 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (11.84%) Facebook
2 36 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.35%) Adobe
4 27 (8.41%) Google
5 26 (8.10%) Instagram
6 24 (7.48%) Twitter
7 9 (2.80%) YouTube
8 8 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.87%) Oracle
10 4 (1.25%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.93%) Hootsuite
11 3 (0.93%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.31%) Netskope
12 1 (0.31%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.31%) Pinterest
12 1 (0.31%) SAP
12 1 (0.31%) TikTok
12 1 (0.31%) Zscaler