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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 503 576
Rank change year-on-year -70 +73 +155
Contract jobs citing Facebook 19 28 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.087% 0.059%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 14
10th Percentile £230 £319 £262
25th Percentile £265 £336 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +9.38% +39.13%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £529
90th Percentile £580 £571 £642
UK excluding London median daily rate £234 £400 £330
% change year-on-year -41.56% +21.21% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £13.29 - £11.35
25th Percentile £13.43 £12.25 £12.02
Median hourly rate £15.25 £12.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -66.67% +248.35%
75th Percentile £25.69 £12.75 £40.63
90th Percentile £40.89 - £42.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.25 £12.50 £11.46
% change year-on-year +22.00% +9.08% +6.46%

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 17,105 14,765 18,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.35% 45.75% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,975 8,766 11,900
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 432 657
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.44 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -38.79% +61.82%
75th Percentile £47.00 £60.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.48 £25.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.08% -45.51% +91.17%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -64 17 £309 -23.77% 69
London -18 9 £366 -12.46% 21
UK excluding London -66 9 £234 -41.56% 55
South East - 4 £234 - 19
Work from Home -16 3 £394 -12.56% 38
East of England -22 2 £175 -56.25% 7
North West -23 2 £575 - 16
North of England -52 2 £575 - 17
South West - 1 £575 - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
1 2 (10.53%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (5.26%) CapCut
2 1 (5.26%) InDesign
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Shopify
1 1 (5.26%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) Canva
3 3 (15.79%) Facebook Ads
3 3 (15.79%) Google Ads
3 3 (15.79%) Google Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) WhatsApp
4 2 (10.53%) Google Tag Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Einstein
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (5.26%) dbt
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) Figma
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) BigQuery
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
1 4 (21.05%) Tableau
2 3 (15.79%) Looker
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 10 (52.63%) Marketing
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Publishing
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Social Media Specialist
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Performance Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Performance Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Content Coordinator
4 1 (5.26%) Customer Service Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Producer
4 1 (5.26%) Web Content Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Social Media
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.26%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.26%) IVR
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Analytics
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) Storytelling
4 3 (15.79%) A/B Testing
4 3 (15.79%) B2B
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.79%) Data Privacy
4 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.79%) Logistics
4 3 (15.79%) Recruitment Marketing
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (15.79%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) GDPR
2 3 (15.79%) PERC
3 2 (10.53%) QA
4 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Google
2 6 (31.58%) Instagram
2 6 (31.58%) TikTok
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.26%) YouTube