Content Writing Contracts in London

Content Writing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Content Writing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Content Writing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 483 586
Rank change year-on-year +105 +103 -130
Contract jobs citing Content Writing 11 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.062% 0.063% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.069% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £113 £200 £262
25th Percentile £166 £275 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £426 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -10.30% -0.48%
75th Percentile £525 £491 £626
90th Percentile £556 £564 £663
England median daily rate £294 £413 £320
% change year-on-year -28.79% +28.91% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £23.38
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -20.63% -
75th Percentile £25.75 £27.50 £40.38
90th Percentile - - £45.25
England median hourly rate £25.50 £26.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% -17.46% +118.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Content Writing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,769 24,761 35,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 91.14% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,293 17,773 26,130
10th Percentile £338 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 287 421
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.83 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.59 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Content Writing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Writing in London

Content Writing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Content Writing in London

Content Writing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Writing in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Writing in London

Content Writing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Writing in London

Content Writing
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 Writing within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 £500 - 2
Content Writing
England

Content Writing
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 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Intranet
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Content Designer
1 3 (27.27%) Content Editor
1 3 (27.27%) Designer
1 3 (27.27%) Digital Content Editor
1 3 (27.27%) Digital Editor
2 1 (9.09%) Copywriter
2 1 (9.09%) Junior
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Writer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Blog
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Podcast
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Analytics
1 4 (36.36%) Content Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) User Research
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Design Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
3 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (18.18%) Service Design
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Content Development
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Learning
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA