Content Development Contract Job Trends in London

Content Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Content Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 369 409
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 +143
Contract jobs citing Content Development 17 24 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.15% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £380 £417 £293
25th Percentile £548 £472 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +40.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £775 £547 £650
90th Percentile - £839 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £438
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.62 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.62 £65.00
% change year-on-year +50.22% -51.35% +19.27%

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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Content Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Content Development job vacancy trend in London

Content Development
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Content Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Content Development

Content Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Development in London over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Development in London

Content Development
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Content Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Content Development

Content Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (5.88%) Camtasia
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Slack
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (5.88%) Canva
2 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) Google Gemini
2 1 (5.88%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Mercurial
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
1 8 (47.06%) Marketing
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Electronics
4 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
4 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Games
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Lead
1 3 (17.65%) Sales Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Training Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Change Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Designer
2 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Instructional Designer
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (17.65%) Blog
2 3 (17.65%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Shadow IT
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) AI
1 5 (29.41%) Instructional Design
1 5 (29.41%) Project Management
1 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Sales Enablement
2 4 (23.53%) Storytelling
2 4 (23.53%) User Stories
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Business Transformation
3 3 (17.65%) Coaching
3 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
3 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Robotic Process Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) C++
1 2 (11.76%) Go
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) PHP
1 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 2 (11.76%) CCNA
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Puppet
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
1 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Instagram
3 1 (5.88%) Intel
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Zscaler