Social Media Contracts in the City of London

Social Media
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Media over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 124 151
Rank change year-on-year +2 +27 +4
Contract jobs citing Social Media 5 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.78% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £239 £178 £221
25th Percentile £356 £183 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £200 £418
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -52.10% -7.22%
75th Percentile £696 £256 £659
90th Percentile - £313 £719
Central London median daily rate £475 £233 £379
% change year-on-year +104.30% -38.61% -15.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.36
25th Percentile - - £29.02
Median hourly rate - - £33.67
75th Percentile - - £38.93
90th Percentile - - £40.96
Central London median hourly rate - - £33.67
% change year-on-year - - -34.63%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 645 1,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.39% 31.36% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 423 734
10th Percentile £352 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £469 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £616
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -4.63% +5.75%
75th Percentile £700 £710 £750
90th Percentile £812 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £586 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.91% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £23.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £32.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -27.84% -25.91%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £56.94
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £73.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.29 £25.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% -27.43% -30.69%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Media in the City of London

Social Media
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Media in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Social Media in the City of London

Social Media
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Media in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Media in the City of London

Social Media
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Media in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Social Media in the City of London

Social Media
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Brand Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) French Language
3 1 (20.00%) German Language
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Content Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Video Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blog
1 1 (20.00%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (20.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Storytelling
1 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) B2C
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Content Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Demand Generation
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Integrated Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Personalization
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) SEO
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Storyboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Google