Content Development Job Trends in the South East

Content Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Content Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 292 275
Rank change year-on-year +33 -17 +119
Permanent jobs citing Content Development 15 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.054% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.062% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £29,500 - -
25th Percentile £34,500 - £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,665 - £39,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -63.86%
75th Percentile £42,500 - £42,375
90th Percentile £46,500 - -
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.70% -3.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Content Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,339 8,072 7,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.75% 87.75% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,932 3,932 5,018
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,188 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Content Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Content Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Content Development job vacancy trend in the South East

Content Development
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Content Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Content Development

Content Development
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Content Development in the South East over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Content Development in the South East

Content Development
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Content Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +11 7 £40,000 -
Hampshire - 5 £33,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 3 £40,000 -
Oxfordshire - 3 £35,000 -
Kent - 2 £39,330 -
Berkshire -3 1 £60,000 -
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
Content Development
England

Content Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (20.00%) WordPress
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Notion
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (13.33%) Elementor
2 2 (13.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Canva
1 3 (20.00%) ChatGPT
1 3 (20.00%) Zapier
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
General
1 11 (73.33%) Marketing
2 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (13.33%) Multimedia
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Digital Executive
1 3 (20.00%) Marketing Specialist
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Developer
2 2 (13.33%) PPC Executive
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Bid Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Communications Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Project Change Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Senior SEO Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Social Media
2 3 (20.00%) Midjourney
3 2 (13.33%) Educational Technology
3 2 (13.33%) e-Learning
3 2 (13.33%) Graphic Design
3 2 (13.33%) Learning Management System
3 2 (13.33%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Blog
4 1 (6.67%) FMCG
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) AI
2 4 (26.67%) B2B
2 4 (26.67%) Lead Generation
3 3 (20.00%) B2B Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) Social Media Management
3 3 (20.00%) Storyboarding
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
4 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
4 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Inclusive Design
4 2 (13.33%) Instructional Design
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
1 3 (20.00%) YouTube
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Ahrefs
3 1 (6.67%) Infor
3 1 (6.67%) Screaming Frog