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 11 April 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
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 495 547
Rank change year-on-year -118 +52 +132
Contract jobs citing Facebook 17 28 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.096% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.087% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 26
10th Percentile £347 £230 £283
25th Percentile £384 £319 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £432 £438
Median % change year-on-year +27.31% -1.26% +56.25%
75th Percentile £569 £488 £475
90th Percentile £590 £525 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £316 £425
% change year-on-year +81.94% -25.64% +70.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 16
10th Percentile £12.85 - £11.00
25th Percentile £13.28 £12.25 £13.60
Median hourly rate £18.32 £36.25 £16.43
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% +120.63% -61.34%
75th Percentile £27.66 £60.00 £27.94
90th Percentile £39.89 - £38.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.95 £36.25 £15.13
% change year-on-year -61.51% +139.55% -64.39%

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 19,653 13,823 18,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.94% 47.30% 42.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,587 8,734 11,686
10th Percentile £313 £293 £259
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 981 517 1,057
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.99 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% +24.40% -47.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £78.25 £80.04 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £25.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +1.52% +16.28% -44.16%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -110 15 £493 +14.00% 79
London -79 11 £435 -3.33% 19
UK excluding London -103 5 £575 +81.94% 64
North West -27 2 £575 +187.40% 19
Work from Home -42 2 £491 +27.40% 41
North of England -67 2 £575 +187.40% 23
East of England -33 1 - - 6
South East -54 1 - - 11
South West - 1 £575 - 12
Scotland - 1 - - 2

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 3 (17.65%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) WordPress
3 1 (5.88%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Sprinklr
2 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Google Analytics
2 3 (17.65%) Canva
2 3 (17.65%) Facebook Ads
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) WhatsApp
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) Google Tag Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Einstein
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Google Ads
4 1 (5.88%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) BigQuery
1 3 (17.65%) Looker
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
1 3 (17.65%) Tableau
General
1 7 (41.18%) Marketing
2 5 (29.41%) Advertising
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Publishing
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Performance Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Social Media Strategist
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Content Coordinator
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Migration Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Social Media Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Producer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Content Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Social Media
2 2 (11.76%) Digital Media
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
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 10 (58.82%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
2 4 (23.53%) SEO
2 4 (23.53%) Storytelling
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) AI
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
3 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (17.65%) Time Management
4 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (11.76%) Data Privacy
4 2 (11.76%) Digital Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Social Commerce
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 3 (17.65%) PERC
3 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Google
2 4 (23.53%) Adobe
2 4 (23.53%) Instagram
3 2 (11.76%) Brandwatch
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) NetBase
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.76%) YouTube
4 1 (5.88%) Hootsuite
4 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) TikTok