Digital Media Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Digital Media
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Media over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 329 468
Rank change year-on-year +40 +139 +138
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 15 16 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.10% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.36% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £366 £286 £260
25th Percentile £436 £310 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £736 £532 £588
90th Percentile £812 £860 £703
UK median daily rate £335 £450 £332
% change year-on-year -25.56% +35.54% -19.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £80.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -38.75% +114.77% +4.93%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Digital Media falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Digital Media
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Digital Media as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Digital Media trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Digital Media
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Digital Media.

Digital Media daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Media
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Digital Media over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Digital Media daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Media
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Digital Media.

Digital Media hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Media
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 9 (60.00%) Marketing
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Retail
4 4 (26.67%) Advertising
4 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (13.33%) Finance
6 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (6.67%) Banking
7 1 (6.67%) Billing
7 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (6.67%) Italian Language
7 1 (6.67%) Public Speaking
7 1 (6.67%) Publishing
7 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Marketing Manager
1 2 (13.33%) SEO Manager
1 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Account Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Agile Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
2 1 (6.67%) Database Manager
2 1 (6.67%) DevOps Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Digital Account Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Digital Media Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Planning Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Sales Account Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Sales Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Social Media
2 3 (20.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (13.33%) Blog
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Signage
3 2 (13.33%) Life Science
4 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Media Streaming
4 1 (6.67%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Marketing Strategy
2 4 (26.67%) SEO
3 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (13.33%) Ad Operations
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) B2B
3 2 (13.33%) Brand Management
3 2 (13.33%) Campaign Management
3 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (13.33%) Content Management
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Media Management
3 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (13.33%) Email Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Market Research
3 2 (13.33%) Pay per click
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Measurement
3 2 (13.33%) Programmatic Advertising
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Facebook
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) comScore
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Instagram
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) TikTok
3 1 (6.67%) Wrike