Content Development Contracts in England

Content Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Content Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Development 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 439 521 621
Rank change year-on-year +82 +100 +125
Contract jobs citing Content Development 31 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.063% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.073% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 15
10th Percentile £353 £185 £213
25th Percentile £411 £278 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £393 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -12.57% -5.26%
75th Percentile £506 £469 £588
90th Percentile £544 £504 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £338 £458
% change year-on-year +40.74% -26.23% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £47.63 -
25th Percentile £45.50 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +9.52% +60.55%
75th Percentile £52.50 £60.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.78% +9.52% +60.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Content Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,765 31,482 43,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.95% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,187 20,630 30,308
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 940 2,281 1,520
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.46% +49.68%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.02 £36.40
% change year-on-year -23.66% -1.02% +41.73%

Content Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Content Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Content Development in England

Content Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Development in England.

Daily rate trend for Content Development in England

Content Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Development in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Development in England

Content Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for Content Development in England

Content Development
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Development within the England 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
London +61 18 £485 +29.33% 62
Midlands - 6 £500 - 8
West Midlands - 5 - - 4
South West +47 3 £433 -16.73% 1
South East +48 2 £425 - 11
North of England +13 1 - - 8
North West +2 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
Content Development
UK

Content Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (12.90%) CMS
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (3.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.23%) Camtasia
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (12.90%) Google Analytics
2 3 (9.68%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (6.45%) Figma
4 1 (3.23%) Canva
4 1 (3.23%) GoToWebinar
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Intranet
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 8 (25.81%) Marketing
4 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.90%) Brand Awareness
5 4 (12.90%) Publishing
6 3 (9.68%) Law
6 3 (9.68%) Multimedia
7 2 (6.45%) Digital Health
7 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.23%) Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Billing
8 1 (3.23%) Electronics
8 1 (3.23%) Games
8 1 (3.23%) Legal
8 1 (3.23%) Local Government
8 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Trainer
2 4 (12.90%) Campaign Manager
2 4 (12.90%) Designer
2 4 (12.90%) SAP Trainer
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Content Designer
4 2 (6.45%) Content Editor
4 2 (6.45%) Content Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Process Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Product Manager
4 2 (6.45%) SAP Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Writer
4 2 (6.45%) Workday Trainer
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) IT Trainer
5 1 (3.23%) Operations Manager
5 1 (3.23%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) HTML
2 2 (6.45%) CSS
2 2 (6.45%) JSON
2 2 (6.45%) OAuth
2 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
2 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 2 (6.45%) Swagger
2 2 (6.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) e-Learning
2 5 (16.13%) Social Media
3 4 (12.90%) Learning Management System
4 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.45%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (6.45%) Life Science
5 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (6.45%) Taxonomies
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (3.23%) Animation
6 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
6 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.23%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Instructional Design
1 10 (32.26%) User Experience
2 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (19.35%) Analytics
3 6 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (19.35%) Content Writing
3 6 (19.35%) Project Management
4 5 (16.13%) Agile
5 4 (12.90%) B2B
5 4 (12.90%) Campaign Management
5 4 (12.90%) Data Analytics
5 4 (12.90%) Demand Generation
5 4 (12.90%) Lead Generation
5 4 (12.90%) Marketing Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Multichannel Marketing
5 4 (12.90%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Storytelling
5 4 (12.90%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (12.90%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Adobe
1 6 (19.35%) SAP
2 4 (12.90%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Ariba
4 2 (6.45%) Workday
5 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.23%) Concur
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Sitecore
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Virgin Media
5 1 (3.23%) Zscaler