Content Editor Contract Job Trends

Content Editor
UK

The median Content Editor daily rate in the UK is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 559 639
Rank change year-on-year -1 +80 +195
Contract jobs requiring a Content Editor 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.018% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.020% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £268 £208 -
25th Percentile - £288 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +45.45% -32.52%
75th Percentile - £475 £338
90th Percentile - £535 £360
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £280 £275
% change year-on-year +25.00% +1.82% -16.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 29,736 35,681 46,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.95% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,755 21,927 32,149
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,586 1,658 1,511
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.17 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.13 £43.90 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.76% +0.34% +98.86%

Content Editor
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Editor in the UK

Content Editor
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Content Editor job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Content Editor job vacancies in the UK

Content Editor
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Editor over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Editor in the UK

Content Editor
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Content Editor job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Content Editor job vacancies in the UK

Content Editor
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Editor within the UK over the 6 months to 21 September 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 +15 5 £350 +7.69% 31
UK excluding London +13 4 £350 +25.00% 34
South East - 4 £350 - 6
Work from Home +25 2 £350 -31.71% 38
London +18 1 £225 -41.94% 4

Content Editor Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Content Editor 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 Content Editor in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) CMS
2 4 (80.00%) Virgin Media
2 4 (80.00%) Umbraco
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) Publishing
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (40.00%) Sitecore
4 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Content Development
5 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (20.00%) Content Management
5 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (20.00%) QA

Content Editor 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 5 (100.00%) CMS
2 4 (80.00%) Umbraco
3 2 (40.00%) Sitecore CMS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Content Development
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Virgin Media
2 2 (40.00%) Sitecore