Blog Contract Job Trends in Central London

Blogs
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 125 144
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +55
Contract jobs citing Blog 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.100% 0.086% 0.037%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.27% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £566 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +205.56% - -
75th Percentile £816 £238 -
90th Percentile £881 - -
London median daily rate £410 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -21.90% +2.94% -18.40%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Blog falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 768 734 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.30% 31.38% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 475 596
10th Percentile £350 £363 £300
25th Percentile £435 £474 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £598
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.26% -0.42%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £724
90th Percentile £775 £825 £830
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 12
10th Percentile £19.79 £30.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.47 £38.42 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -44.19%
75th Percentile £32.75 £75.92 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.75 £85.87 £45.73
London median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -14.29%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blog relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Blog job vacancy trend in Central London

Blog
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Blog
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blog in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blog in Central London

Blog
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Blog.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Blog

Blog
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 Blog within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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 -2 2 £688 +205.56% 3
Blog
London

Blog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Brand Awareness
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Content Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Evangelist
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Integrated Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google