Digital Content Management Contract Job Trends

Digital Content Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Digital Content Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 - 577
Rank change year-on-year - - +211
Contract jobs citing Digital Content Management 3 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% - 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile - - £115
25th Percentile £256 - £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - £164
Median % change year-on-year - - -52.33%
75th Percentile £269 - £252
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £263 - £164

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Content Management 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 32,644 29,969 38,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.25% 88.28% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,536 18,292 25,469
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £741 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,079 968 1,499
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%
75th Percentile £50.38 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +42.45%

Digital Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Digital Content Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Digital Content Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Digital Content Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Digital Content Management
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Content Management within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 - 2 £263 - 6
UK excluding London - 1 £263 - 4
London - 1 - - 3
South East - 1 £263 - 2

Digital Content Management
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 3 (100.00%) CMS
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Drupal
3 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Executive
2 1 (33.33%) Content Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Content Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Content Curation
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (66.67%) Development Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Global Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Web Analytics
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Hotjar
2 1 (33.33%) HubSpot