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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 104 156
Rank change year-on-year -33 +52 +34
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 14 39 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.35% 1.86% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 4.52% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 17
10th Percentile £75,500 £27,775 £38,328
25th Percentile £91,250 £30,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £41,250 £43,941
Median % change year-on-year +142.42% -6.12% +9.85%
75th Percentile - £54,688 £53,750
90th Percentile - £65,375 £62,250
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 1,071 863 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.58% 41.25% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 774 643 885
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,728
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% -5.66%
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £134,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% - -6.45%

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 7 May 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 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Contentsquare
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Broadband
2 2 (14.29%) 4G
2 2 (14.29%) BGP
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (14.29%) IOS XR
2 2 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (7.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) Pinecone
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (28.57%) Marketing
2 3 (21.43%) Games
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Campaign Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Product Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Associate Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Campaign Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Digital User Researcher
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Product Development Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (7.14%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Jinja
1 2 (14.29%) NETCONF
1 2 (14.29%) YANG
2 1 (7.14%) Keras
2 1 (7.14%) LangChain
2 1 (7.14%) LangGraph
2 1 (7.14%) NumPy
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Marketing Technology
1 4 (28.57%) Over-the-Top Content
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Analytics
2 7 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 7 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) AI
3 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 4 (28.57%) Campaign Management
4 4 (28.57%) Consent Management
4 4 (28.57%) Data Management
4 4 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (28.57%) Ideation Sessions
4 4 (28.57%) Personalization
4 4 (28.57%) Product Backlog
4 4 (28.57%) Product Requirements
4 4 (28.57%) Product Vision
4 4 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (28.57%) User Stories
4 4 (28.57%) Web Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Digital Customer Experience
5 3 (21.43%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Adobe
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAI