Author Contracts

Author
UK

The median Author daily rate in the UK is £611, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 460 644
Rank change year-on-year -46 +184 +139
Contract jobs requiring an Author 18 131 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.30% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.32% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 26
10th Percentile £473 - £319
25th Percentile £513 £158 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £343 £533
Median % change year-on-year +78.47% -35.68% +33.13%
75th Percentile £650 £388 £638
90th Percentile £669 £397 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +78.85% -13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 68 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.82% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £51.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £43.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,162 40,531 52,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.88% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,463 26,076 36,648
10th Percentile £288 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.64% +2.71%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,133 2,932 1,488
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.30 £19.39
Median hourly rate £27.64 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.29% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%

Author
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Author in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Author in the UK

Author
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Author.

Daily rate trend for Author in the UK

Author
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Author over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Author in the UK

Author
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Author.

Hourly rate trend for Author in the UK

Author
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Author within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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
England -58 17 £620 +81.02% 35
UK excluding London -55 11 £581 +78.85% 31
South West +18 9 £638 +96.15% 10
London +56 6 £611 - 3
Work from Home -21 6 £525 +13.51% 11
South East +48 1 - - 8
East of England -39 1 - - 7
Scotland - 1 £450 -

Author Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 June 2025, Author contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Author in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (22.22%) Service Design
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Project Management
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Programme Governance
5 2 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Logistics
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) Windchill
5 2 (11.11%) Teamcenter
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (11.11%) Electronics
5 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) HNC
5 2 (11.11%) HND
6 1 (5.56%) ERP

Author Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Windchill
2 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.56%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Teamcenter
2 1 (5.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) BigCommerce
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Police
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL
1 4 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (22.22%) Project Management
1 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
1 4 (22.22%) Service Design
2 2 (11.11%) Agile
2 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (11.11%) Logistics
2 2 (11.11%) Programme Governance
2 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (5.56%) B2B
3 1 (5.56%) Contract Management
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Acquisition
3 1 (5.56%) Document Management
3 1 (5.56%) ERP
3 1 (5.56%) ITSM
3 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.56%) Prototyping
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) HNC
4 2 (11.11%) HND
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) Sitecore