Social Media Contracts in Central London

Social Media
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Media over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 120 153
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 -9
Contract jobs citing Social Media 10 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.53% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.73% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 10
10th Percentile £196 £184 £218
25th Percentile £433 £189 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £200 £435
Median % change year-on-year +240.13% -54.02% -12.17%
75th Percentile £707 £286 £518
90th Percentile £711 £314 £714
London median daily rate £475 £275 £360
% change year-on-year +72.73% -23.66% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.63
25th Percentile - - £40.57
Median hourly rate - - £45.67
75th Percentile - - £50.14
90th Percentile - - £51.71
London median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.75% +33.33% -39.39%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Social Media 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 633 752 1,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.65% 31.42% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 521 905
10th Percentile £357 £275 £325
25th Percentile £465 £428 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £745
90th Percentile £811 £838 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 16
10th Percentile £19.80 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £23.52 £15.19 £32.50
Median hourly rate £26.45 £23.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% -33.14% -24.73%
75th Percentile £30.04 £27.13 £84.89
90th Percentile £58.60 £34.33 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.90 £27.00 £34.81
% change year-on-year +14.45% -22.44% -19.98%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Media in Central London

Social Media
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Media in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Social Media in Central London

Social Media
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Media in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Media in Central London

Social Media
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Media in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Social Media in Central London

Social Media
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 Social Media within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +4 10 £680 +240.13% 18
Social Media
London

Social Media
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) French Language
3 1 (10.00%) German Language
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Analyst
1 1 (10.00%) Finance Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Senior
1 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Video Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (10.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Marketing Automation
1 2 (20.00%) Marketing Strategy
1 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) B2B
2 1 (10.00%) B2C
2 1 (10.00%) Campaign Management
2 1 (10.00%) CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (10.00%) Demand Generation
2 1 (10.00%) Fintech
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Generation
2 1 (10.00%) Market Segmentation
2 1 (10.00%) Personalization
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Storyboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Grafana
1 5 (50.00%) Kibana
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce