Content Writing Contracts in London

Content Writing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Content Writing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Writing over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 384 455
Rank change year-on-year +59 +71 +126
Contract jobs citing Content Writing 16 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.069% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.078% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £460 £113 £209
25th Percentile £473 £219 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +17.30% -27.45%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £525
90th Percentile - £588 £536
England median daily rate £513 £350 £386
% change year-on-year +46.43% -9.39% +6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.00 £25.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +2.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £35.00 £25.75 £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +2.00% -20.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Content Writing 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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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
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 29 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 +9 4 £550 +10.00% 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Chatbot
1 3 (18.75%) Sketch
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (6.25%) Camtasia
2 1 (6.25%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Figma
2 3 (18.75%) ChatGPT
2 3 (18.75%) IBM Watson
3 2 (12.50%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Retail
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Publishing
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Writer
3 1 (6.25%) Content Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Instructional Designer
3 1 (6.25%) UI Designer
3 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Educational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Learning Management System
3 1 (6.25%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) User Experience
2 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) LLM
3 6 (37.50%) Content Development
3 6 (37.50%) Instructional Design
4 5 (31.25%) UX Design
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 3 (18.75%) Conversational AI
5 3 (18.75%) Conversational UI
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
5 3 (18.75%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) User Research
6 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) Storyboarding
6 2 (12.50%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Adobe
1 3 (18.75%) Genesys
1 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft