Social Media Job Trends in the City of London

Social Media
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Media over the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 108 146
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 +52
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 11 42 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.31% 2.00% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 4.86% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile £75,500 £27,775 £40,687
25th Percentile £91,250 £30,813 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +142.42% -8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £54,688 £53,750
90th Percentile - £65,375 £59,750
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £41,250 £43,000
% change year-on-year +142.42% -4.07% +7.50%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Social Media falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,037 864 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.52% 41.24% 34.05%
Number of salaries quoted 739 640 883
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £118,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% -3.23%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Social Media relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Social Media job vacancy trend in the City of London

Social Media
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Social Media.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Social Media

Social Media
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Media in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Media in the City of London

Social Media
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (9.09%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Contentsquare
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Broadband
2 2 (18.18%) 4G
2 2 (18.18%) BGP
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (18.18%) IOS XR
2 2 (18.18%) MPLS
3 1 (9.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Games
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Associate Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Campaign Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Campaign Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital User Researcher
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Jinja
1 2 (18.18%) NETCONF
1 2 (18.18%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (18.18%) Over-the-Top Content
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Customer Experience
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) AI
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) Digital Customer Experience
4 3 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Storytelling
4 3 (27.27%) User Research
4 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (18.18%) Consent Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Diary Studies
5 2 (18.18%) Ideation Sessions
5 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
5 2 (18.18%) Product Requirements
5 2 (18.18%) Product Vision
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Adobe
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco