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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 115 156
Rank change year-on-year -24 +41 +38
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 10 37 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.33% 1.64% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.05% 3.93% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £47,750 £27,775 £39,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £30,813 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +142.42% -4.07% -11.79%
75th Percentile - £54,688 £50,000
90th Percentile - £65,375 £69,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £41,250 £43,000
% change year-on-year +142.42% -4.07% -11.79%

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 950 942 1,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.33% 41.81% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 695 639 889
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £53,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £123,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £73,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -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 10 March 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 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (10.00%) InDesign
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (10.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Canva
2 1 (10.00%) Contentsquare
2 1 (10.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) npm
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Broadband
2 2 (20.00%) 4G
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (20.00%) IOS XR
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Mocha
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Games
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Associate Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Business Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Creative Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Digital User Researcher
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Jinja
1 2 (20.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (20.00%) YANG
2 1 (10.00%) D3.js
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (10.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (10.00%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (10.00%) Smart City
1 1 (10.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) AI
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Data Science
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Storytelling
3 1 (10.00%) Business Development
3 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (10.00%) Creative Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) Diary Studies
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) R
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Google