Content Strategy Contracts in the North West

Content Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Content Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 126 155
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 +27
Contract jobs citing Content Strategy 1 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.051% 0.34% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.40% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - - £284
25th Percentile - £158 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £165 £306
Median % change year-on-year +89.70% -46.12% -20.97%
75th Percentile - £173 £327
90th Percentile - - £333
England median daily rate £525 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Content Strategy 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 2,270 2,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.28% 85.40% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,440 1,929
10th Percentile £297 £307 £313
25th Percentile £388 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 259 137
10th Percentile £15.56 £10.99 £16.22
25th Percentile £23.48 £13.75 £22.13
Median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -25.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile £63.00 £46.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%

Content Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Content Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Content Strategy in the North West

Content Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Strategy in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Content Strategy in the North West

Content Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Strategy within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cheshire -10 1 £313 +89.70% 30
Content Strategy
England

Content Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Designer
1 1 (100.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (100.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Contextual Inquiry
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Typography
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Web Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe