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 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 122 120 136
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +58
Contract jobs citing Blog 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.097% 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.31% 0.13%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £688 £225 -
% change year-on-year +205.56% - -

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 696 646 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.18% 31.27% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 408 526
10th Percentile £350 £363 £300
25th Percentile £427 £475 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.42% -0.42%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £723
90th Percentile £775 £833 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £598
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.26% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £18.97 - -
25th Percentile £20.56 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £37.44 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.81 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -44.19%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Blog in the City of London

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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:

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