Content Development Contracts in London

Content Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 378 472
Rank change year-on-year +44 +94 +102
Contract jobs citing Content Development 19 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.073% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.082% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 14
10th Percentile £411 £229 £209
25th Percentile £457 £263 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £419
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -22.39% -15.49%
75th Percentile £538 £413 £594
90th Percentile £548 £473 £650
England median daily rate £475 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +22.81%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +22.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Content Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Development in London

Content Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Content Development in London

Content Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Development in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Development in London

Content Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Development in London

Content Development
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +3 1 - - 2
East London - 1 £495 -
Content Development
England

Content Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (10.53%) CMS
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (5.26%) Camtasia
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) Canva
2 1 (5.26%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Postman
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Law
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Publishing
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Health
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Multimedia
5 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Consultant
1 4 (21.05%) Trainer
2 3 (15.79%) Designer
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Content Designer
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Trainer
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Writer
3 2 (10.53%) Workday Trainer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Audit Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Content Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Process Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Risk Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) OAuth
2 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
2 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) Swagger
2 2 (10.53%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) e-Learning
2 4 (21.05%) Learning Management System
2 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Shadow IT
3 2 (10.53%) Social Media
3 2 (10.53%) Taxonomies
4 1 (5.26%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (5.26%) Educational Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Life Science
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) User Experience
2 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Coaching
4 3 (15.79%) Information Security
4 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.79%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (10.53%) Application Security
5 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
5 2 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.53%) Content Writing
5 2 (10.53%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (10.53%) Information Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (10.53%) User Research
5 2 (10.53%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GRC
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) Workday
3 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) Concur