Ahrefs Contract Job Trends in Central London

Ahrefs
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Ahrefs products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ahrefs over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Ahrefs.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ahrefs 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.052% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 - £175
% change year-on-year - - -10.26%

All Vendors
Central London

Ahrefs falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 923 988 1,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.82% 43.01% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 649 972
10th Percentile £313 £340 £263
25th Percentile £407 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 7
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.50 £14.87
25th Percentile £23.31 £20.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £31.58 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% +20.00% -14.84%
75th Percentile £58.50 £92.50 £52.75
90th Percentile £64.66 £137.50 £62.80
London median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%

Ahrefs
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Ahrefs as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Ahrefs in Central London

Ahrefs
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Ahrefs.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Ahrefs

Ahrefs
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ahrefs within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
City of London - 1 £500 - 8
Ahrefs
London

Ahrefs
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SEO Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Web Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Screaming Frog