Content Strategy Contract Job Trends

Content Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Content Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 515 566
Rank change year-on-year -46 +51 +124
Contract jobs citing Content Strategy 30 35 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.10% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.12% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 24
10th Percentile £321 £353 £335
25th Percentile £352 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £497 £581 £538
90th Percentile £533 £640 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £575 £425
% change year-on-year -20.61% +35.29% -14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £30.50 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £30.88 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -49.23% +44.44%
75th Percentile £56.25 £41.63 -
90th Percentile £73.50 £45.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Content Strategy 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,729 29,699 38,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.02% 88.28% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,612 18,123 25,677
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,069 965 1,551
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.63 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.88 £44.50
% change year-on-year -23.64% -30.62% +48.33%

Content Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Content Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Content Strategy job vacancy trend in the UK

Content Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Content Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Content Strategy

Content Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Strategy over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Content Strategy in the UK

Content Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Content Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Content Strategy

Content Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Content Strategy over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Strategy in the UK

Content Strategy
Top 10 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 Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 27 December 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 -41 28 £413 -17.50% 175
London -10 18 £401 -8.98% 21
UK excluding London -54 10 £457 -20.61% 170
Work from Home -2 7 £415 -11.57% 128
North of England -41 7 £501 +166.93% 35
North East - 4 £525 - 3
North West -16 3 £413 +120.00% 18
South East -15 2 - - 39
West Midlands -27 1 £375 -33.33% 18
Midlands -41 1 £375 -33.33% 36

Content Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (20.00%) CMS
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (6.67%) WordPress
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) SaaS
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Figma
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Marketing
2 7 (23.33%) Publishing
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Retail
5 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Content Designer
1 10 (33.33%) Designer
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Marketing Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Content Marketing Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Content Strategist
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Content Designer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Designer
5 1 (3.33%) Author
5 1 (3.33%) Content Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Copywriter
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Author
5 1 (3.33%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Copywriter
5 1 (3.33%) Social Media Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Author
5 1 (3.33%) User Researcher
5 1 (3.33%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Social Media
2 5 (16.67%) Blog
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Derivative
3 2 (6.67%) Educational Technology
3 2 (6.67%) Equities
3 2 (6.67%) FMCG
3 2 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.67%) Podcast
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Storytelling
2 7 (23.33%) Agile
2 7 (23.33%) Content Management
2 7 (23.33%) SEO
2 7 (23.33%) Thought Leadership
2 7 (23.33%) User Experience
3 6 (20.00%) Analytics
3 6 (20.00%) Service Design
3 6 (20.00%) User Research
3 6 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (13.33%) Project Management
4 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (10.00%) AI
5 3 (10.00%) Content Marketing
5 3 (10.00%) CRM
5 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Grafana
1 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe
1 2 (6.67%) YouTube
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) SAP