Blog Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Blogs
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 110 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Blog 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.053% 0.11% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £875 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +300.00% - -
75th Percentile £925 £238 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £900 £225 -
% change year-on-year +300.00% - -

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 685 587 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.30% 31.54% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 360 501
10th Percentile £350 £375 £300
25th Percentile £440 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £688 £696 £706
90th Percentile £788 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £18.51 - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.04 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.13 - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -53.09%
75th Percentile £38.69 - £41.63
90th Percentile £41.85 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £21.00
% change year-on-year +1.24% +22.81% -44.37%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Blog job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Blog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Blog

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Blog.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Blog

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Evangelist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree