Social Media Contracts

Social Media
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Media over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 542 546
Rank change year-on-year +87 +4 -146
Contract jobs citing Social Media 143 178 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 0.89% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 117 188
10th Percentile £142 £208 £189
25th Percentile £200 £280 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £375 £379
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% -0.92% +5.87%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £527
90th Percentile £600 £643 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £423 £288
% change year-on-year -17.16% +46.96% -22.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 40
10th Percentile £15.19 £19.38 £22.90
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.13 £35.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.45% -38.02% +54.84%
75th Percentile £47.50 £37.97 £58.91
90th Percentile £65.39 £52.13 £63.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.25 £27.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -6.48% - +23.51%

All Generic Skills
UK

Social Media is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Social Media as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Media.

Daily rate trend for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Media over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Media.

Hourly rate trend for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Media over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Media within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +106 131 £288 -23.33% 609
London +76 81 £275 -18.82% 220
UK excluding London +61 45 £350 -17.16% 406
Work from Home +90 38 £250 -34.21% 259
South East +24 15 £200 -56.76% 89
North of England +37 10 £160 -29.67% 142
West Midlands +31 9 £600 +50.00% 44
Midlands +22 9 £600 +50.00% 76
East of England +20 9 £350 -26.32% 37
North West +20 6 £160 -29.67% 90
Scotland +29 2 - - 16
Yorkshire +20 2 £223 -15.24% 43
North East +20 2 - - 10

Social Media
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (10.49%) CMS
2 8 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.20%) WordPress
4 5 (3.50%) Drupal
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Adobe Illustrator
1 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (6.99%) Photoshop
2 7 (4.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.50%) InDesign
4 3 (2.10%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (2.10%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.70%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.70%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.70%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Shopify
2 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.70%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.59%) Google Analytics
2 6 (4.20%) Yammer
3 5 (3.50%) GitHub
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.80%) Azure
4 4 (2.80%) BigCommerce
5 3 (2.10%) AWS
5 3 (2.10%) Canva
5 3 (2.10%) Figma
5 3 (2.10%) Fivetran
5 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) ChatGPT
6 2 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.70%) GCP
7 1 (0.70%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) Internet
2 6 (4.20%) Intranet
3 5 (3.50%) Network Security
4 2 (1.40%) Firewall
5 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.80%) Big Data
2 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.10%) Tableau
3 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.70%) Power BI
3 1 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Git
1 5 (3.50%) Mercurial
2 2 (1.40%) JIRA
2 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (48.95%) Marketing
2 50 (34.97%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.49%) Finance
5 14 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.29%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.59%) Games
7 8 (5.59%) Retail
8 7 (4.90%) Advertising
9 6 (4.20%) Multimedia
10 5 (3.50%) Fire and Rescue
10 5 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.80%) Electronics
11 4 (2.80%) German Language
11 4 (2.80%) Legal
11 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.10%) Brand Awareness
13 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.40%) Publishing
14 1 (0.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (8.39%) Communications Manager
1 12 (8.39%) Designer
1 12 (8.39%) Marketing Manager
2 9 (6.29%) Senior
3 7 (4.90%) Data Engineer
3 7 (4.90%) Social Media Manager
4 5 (3.50%) Account Executive
4 5 (3.50%) Analyst
4 5 (3.50%) Consultant
4 5 (3.50%) Internal Communications Manager
4 5 (3.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 5 (3.50%) Network Engineer
4 5 (3.50%) Senior Manager
5 4 (2.80%) Architect
5 4 (2.80%) Copywriter
5 4 (2.80%) Digital Designer
6 3 (2.10%) Data Scientist
6 3 (2.10%) Digital Marketing Manager
6 3 (2.10%) Project Manager
6 3 (2.10%) Social Media Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.90%) React
2 6 (4.20%) HTML
3 5 (3.50%) NumPy
3 5 (3.50%) Pandas
3 5 (3.50%) SciPy
4 3 (2.10%) Web Services
5 2 (1.40%) .NET
5 2 (1.40%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.40%) Flash
5 2 (1.40%) Next.js
5 2 (1.40%) OpenCV
5 2 (1.40%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.40%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.70%) ATL
6 1 (0.70%) CSS
6 1 (0.70%) Flutter
6 1 (0.70%) JSON
6 1 (0.70%) Node.js
6 1 (0.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.70%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Graphic Design
2 8 (5.59%) Blog
3 7 (4.90%) Video Editing
4 5 (3.50%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.80%) CCTV
5 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.80%) Photography
5 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.10%) Digital Media
6 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.10%) Motion Graphics
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) NHS
7 2 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.99%) Windows
2 4 (2.80%) Android
2 4 (2.80%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.80%) VMS
2 4 (2.80%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.08%) Analytics
2 21 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (13.99%) Customer Service
3 20 (13.99%) SEO
4 19 (13.29%) Project Management
5 18 (12.59%) Digital Marketing
6 16 (11.19%) Computer Science
7 13 (9.09%) Marketing Strategy
8 12 (8.39%) B2B
8 12 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (7.69%) Content Management
9 11 (7.69%) Copywriting
9 11 (7.69%) Machine Learning
10 10 (6.99%) CRM
10 10 (6.99%) Thought Leadership
11 9 (6.29%) Lead Generation
11 9 (6.29%) User Experience
12 8 (5.59%) Content Strategy
12 8 (5.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.78%) Python
2 10 (6.99%) JavaScript
2 10 (6.99%) SQL
3 8 (5.59%) C#
4 5 (3.50%) Java
4 5 (3.50%) R
5 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.40%) Go
7 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.40%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) Dart
Qualifications
1 29 (20.28%) Degree
2 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.50%) CCIE
3 5 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.10%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.40%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.70%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.10%) SLA
2 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.40%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) SCCM
3 1 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.19%) Instagram
3 14 (9.79%) Adobe
3 14 (9.79%) Facebook
4 12 (8.39%) Google
4 12 (8.39%) Twitter
5 10 (6.99%) Salesforce
6 9 (6.29%) YouTube
7 5 (3.50%) Arista
7 5 (3.50%) Brandwatch
7 5 (3.50%) Cisco
7 5 (3.50%) Juniper
7 5 (3.50%) TikTok
8 4 (2.80%) SAP
9 3 (2.10%) Marketo
10 2 (1.40%) Pardot
11 1 (0.70%) Apple
11 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.70%) Sitecore