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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 477 538
Rank change year-on-year -71 +61 +149
Contract jobs citing Content Strategy 39 40 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 45
10th Percentile £343 £259 £158
25th Percentile £359 £366 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £483 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.99% +20.63% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £564 £550
90th Percentile £530 £606 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £424 £165
% change year-on-year +3.30% +156.82% -67.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile - £30.75 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.50 £25.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +86.27% -20.31%
75th Percentile £41.88 £95.50 £25.75
90th Percentile £67.75 £96.09 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £92.00 -
% change year-on-year -72.83% - -

All Process & 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 36,453 27,072 38,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.50% 90.11% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,124 16,979 25,034
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,168 886 2,250
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.13 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £33.50
% change year-on-year -20.81% -5.19% -4.29%

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 4 March 2026.

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 4 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Content Strategy in the UK

Content Strategy
Top 11 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 4 March 2026. 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 -81 36 £401 -15.68% 78
London -45 23 £400 +0.06% 41
UK excluding London -87 12 £438 +3.30% 53
Work from Home -16 11 £450 -6.74% 99
North of England -54 7 £501 +166.93% 7
North East - 4 £525 -
North West -36 3 £374 +99.47% 5
South East -29 2 - - 21
East of England - 2 - - 12
West Midlands -55 1 £375 -34.78% 3
Midlands -61 1 £375 -34.78% 5

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 8 (20.51%) CMS
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.56%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) SaaS
2 3 (7.69%) Figma
3 2 (5.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) Miro
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Metadata
2 1 (2.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.21%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.08%) Marketing
3 8 (20.51%) Publishing
3 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Finance
5 4 (10.26%) Legal
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Retail
7 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Local Government
8 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Designer
2 14 (35.90%) Content Designer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Content Designer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Designer
5 3 (7.69%) Content Strategist
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Content Marketing Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Copywriter
6 2 (5.13%) Digital Copywriter
6 2 (5.13%) Marketing Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Product Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Strategy Manager
6 2 (5.13%) User Researcher
6 2 (5.13%) UX Designer
7 1 (2.56%) Author
7 1 (2.56%) Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Author
7 1 (2.56%) Web Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Website Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) CSS
1 1 (2.56%) HTML
1 1 (2.56%) VML
1 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Social Media
2 4 (10.26%) Educational Technology
3 3 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 3 (7.69%) Blog
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Derivative
4 2 (5.13%) Equities
4 2 (5.13%) FMCG
4 2 (5.13%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) NHS
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) PMI
4 2 (5.13%) Podcast
4 2 (5.13%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Content Management
2 10 (25.64%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) User Research
3 9 (23.08%) Storytelling
3 9 (23.08%) User Experience
4 8 (20.51%) Analytics
4 8 (20.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (17.95%) SEO
6 6 (15.38%) AI
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.82%) Prototyping
7 5 (12.82%) Service Design
7 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (12.82%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (12.82%) UX Design
8 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (7.69%) A/B Testing
9 3 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Adobe
1 2 (5.13%) YouTube
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce