Content Writing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Writing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 334 398 456
Rank change year-on-year +64 +58 +44
Contract jobs citing Content Writing 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.005% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.006% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £260
25th Percentile - £206 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £213 £360
Median % change year-on-year +111.76% -40.97% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £219 £430
90th Percentile - - £472
UK median daily rate £450 £294 £419
% change year-on-year +53.19% -29.85% -6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.76 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.76 £25.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -2.90% -1.92% -17.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Content Writing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Content Writing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Content Writing in the UK excluding London

Content Writing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Writing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Content Writing in the UK excluding London

Content Writing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Writing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Content Writing in the UK excluding London

Content Writing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North West - 1 - - 5
South East - 1 £450 - 6
North of England - 1 - - 8
Content Writing
UK

Content Writing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Copywriting
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight