Link Building Contracts in the UK excluding London

Link Building
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Link Building skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Link Building over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 398 445
Rank change year-on-year +61 +47 -
Contract jobs citing Link Building 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.005% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.006% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
UK median daily rate £343 £425 £332
% change year-on-year -19.41% +28.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £22.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Link Building 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
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 £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Link Building
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Link Building in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Link Building in the UK excluding London

Link Building
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Link Building in the UK excluding London

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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 Link Building within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +13 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £450 -
Link Building
UK

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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
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Content Editor
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Content Editor
1 1 (50.00%) SEO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Content Development
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google