Content Development Contracts in the Midlands

Content Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Content Development 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £475 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -4.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Development in the Midlands

Content Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Content Development in the Midlands

Content Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Development in the Midlands

Content Development
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands - 5 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
Content Development
England

Content Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Google Analytics
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Brand Awareness
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Campaign Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Trainer
2 1 (16.67%) Process Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Social Media
2 1 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) B2B
2 4 (66.67%) Campaign Management
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Demand Generation
2 4 (66.67%) Intelligent Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Lead Generation
2 4 (66.67%) Marketing Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Multichannel Marketing
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Measurement
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Storytelling
2 4 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Indirect Procurement
3 1 (16.67%) Instructional Design
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) SAP