Content Development Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Content Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Content Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 159 174
Rank change year-on-year -31 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Content Development 14 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.29% 0.12% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.13% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £150 £332 £425
25th Percentile £358 £358 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £425 £569
90th Percentile £626 £440 £595
England median daily rate £501 £488 £425
% change year-on-year +2.67% +14.71% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.62 £65.00
% change year-on-year +50.22% -51.35% +19.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,255 2,966 4,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.22% 87.75% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 1,701 2,672
10th Percentile £230 £263 £294
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £673 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 136 209
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.54 £17.08 £17.14
Median hourly rate £38.00 £27.26 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.42% -22.13% +53.14%
75th Percentile £56.52 £46.18 £46.91
90th Percentile £68.90 £70.87 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Content Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Content Development job vacancy trend in the North of England

Content Development
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Content Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Content Development

Content Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Development in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Content Development in the North of England

Content Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Content Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Content Development

Content Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
North West -14 10 £581 +45.25% 2
Yorkshire -44 3 £150 -54.55%
North East -11 1 £501 +11.22%
Content Development
England

Content Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (21.43%) Quicktime
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Vyond
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Looker
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Designer
2 1 (7.14%) Communications Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Communications Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Content Designer
2 1 (7.14%) CRM Manager
2 1 (7.14%) CRM Project Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Head of CRM
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Projects
2 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Senior
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) e-Learning
2 3 (21.43%) Private Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Video Editing
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (42.86%) Coaching
3 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 3 (21.43%) Agile Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Observability
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Storytelling
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
1 3 (21.43%) IBM Certification
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Zoho