Storytelling Contract Job Trends in the South East

Storytelling
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Storytelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 159 186
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 +42
Contract jobs citing Storytelling 14 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.17% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £440 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 - £46
Median % change year-on-year - - -91.64%
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.09 £49.50 -
% change year-on-year -31.14% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Storytelling 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,699 2,991 4,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.30% 89.15% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 1,847 2,812
10th Percentile £231 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 116 256
10th Percentile £14.80 £19.64 £18.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.93 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.69 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.78% -22.38% +22.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.38 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Storytelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Storytelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Storytelling job vacancy trend in the South East

Storytelling
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Storytelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Storytelling

Storytelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storytelling in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Storytelling in the South East

Storytelling
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storytelling within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley -10 6 £600 - 26
Hampshire - 6 £454 - 8
Berkshire -7 5 £600 - 20
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 - 3
Surrey - 1 £475 - 10
West Sussex - 1 £450 - 7
Storytelling
England

Storytelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (7.14%) Blender
1 1 (7.14%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) 2G
1 2 (14.29%) 5G
1 2 (14.29%) LTE
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
1 3 (21.43%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Publishing
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Content Marketing Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Service Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Communications Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Motion Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Motion Graphics Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Designer
4 1 (7.14%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 2 (14.29%) Blog
1 2 (14.29%) Educational Technology
1 2 (14.29%) IoT
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 2 (14.29%) Podcast
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Animation
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Analytics
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
3 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
4 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Systems Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) YouTube
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce