Facebook Contract Job Trends

Facebook
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Facebook products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Facebook over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Facebook, Inc.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 492 548
Rank change year-on-year -103 +56 +157
Contract jobs citing Facebook 17 35 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.090% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 26
10th Percentile £231 £280 £281
25th Percentile £330 £319 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £429 £438
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -2.06% +56.25%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £475
90th Percentile £588 £557 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £238 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -44.12% -5.56% +80.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £12.85 - £11.31
25th Percentile £13.28 £12.25 £14.13
Median hourly rate £15.25 £12.50 £16.43
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -23.92% -61.34%
75th Percentile £25.88 £12.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £39.89 - £39.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £12.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -21.88% -62.35%

All Vendors
UK

Facebook falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,881 14,233 19,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.26% 46.69% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,090 8,726 11,976
10th Percentile £306 £284 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -3.02%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 946 449 984
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.71
25th Percentile £18.45 £21.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.22
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +18.98% -27.96%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.03
90th Percentile £74.84 £81.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £27.35 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.07% +10.95% -24.15%

Facebook
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Facebook job vacancy trend in the UK

Facebook
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Facebook

Facebook
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Facebook over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Facebook in the UK

Facebook
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Facebook

Facebook
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Facebook over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Facebook in the UK

Facebook
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 Facebook within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 -102 15 £435 +7.41% 70
London -51 8 £455 +8.98% 17
UK excluding London -87 8 £238 -44.12% 57
South East -41 4 £234 -45.89% 13
North West -27 2 £575 +187.40% 14
Work from Home -30 2 £491 +17.49% 38
North of England -66 2 £575 +187.40% 17
East of England -28 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 3
South West - 1 £575 - 9

Facebook
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 2 (11.76%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) CapCut
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
1 4 (23.53%) Google Analytics
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Canva
2 3 (17.65%) WhatsApp
3 2 (11.76%) Google Tag Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Einstein
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) BigQuery
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
1 4 (23.53%) Tableau
2 3 (17.65%) Looker
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Marketing
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Advertising
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Publishing
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Performance Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
1 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Senior Performance Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Migration Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Content Coordinator
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Migration Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Producer
3 1 (5.88%) Web Content Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Social Media
2 2 (11.76%) Digital Media
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Graphic Design
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (5.88%) New Media
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Social Network
3 1 (5.88%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Analytics
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
3 4 (23.53%) Storytelling
4 3 (17.65%) AI
4 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
4 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
4 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (11.76%) Conversational UI
5 2 (11.76%) Copywriting
5 2 (11.76%) Digital Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) SEO
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 3 (17.65%) PERC
3 2 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Instagram
2 5 (29.41%) Google
3 4 (23.53%) TikTok
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (11.76%) YouTube
5 1 (5.88%) Adobe
5 1 (5.88%) Hootsuite
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.88%) Twitter