Blogs
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 544 530
Rank change year-on-year +34 -14 +59
Permanent jobs citing Blog 264 129 370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.02% 0.64% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 128 75 186
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,200 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,600 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,373 £37,500 £38,918
Median % change year-on-year +28.99% -3.64% -40.67%
75th Percentile £63,356 £65,000 £53,992
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,000 £75,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -44.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Blog 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,793 20,229 32,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.86% 41.08% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16,466 10,071 20,799
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +4.55% -14.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -9.09%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Blog relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Blog job vacancy trend in the UK

Blog
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blog

Blog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blog over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Blog in the UK

Blog
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blog within the UK over the 6 months to 19 July 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
England +42 211 £47,500 +18.75% 76
Work from Home +71 139 £47,000 +44.62% 38
London +44 129 £48,373 -19.38% 49
UK excluding London -63 82 £42,500 +30.77% 30
South East -34 26 £45,000 +38.46% 14
North of England -41 16 £35,000 -1.69% 6
Northern Ireland - 13 - - 1
South West -54 12 £45,000 +50.00% 2
Yorkshire -24 10 £57,500 - 1
Midlands - 5 £37,500 - 7
Scotland +20 4 £50,000 -
East of England -17 4 - - 1
North West -28 4 £35,000 -12.50% 5
West Midlands - 4 £37,500 - 2
North East -46 2 £31,500 +0.96%
Wales -54 2 £53,171 -22.38%
East Midlands - 1 £26,000 - 5

Blog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 18 (6.82%) CMS
1 18 (6.82%) WordPress
2 5 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.14%) SAS
3 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.76%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (2.65%) Photoshop
4 6 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.89%) Acrobat
6 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (1.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (1.14%) Blender
7 3 (1.14%) Maya
8 2 (0.76%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.38%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 14 (5.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (4.92%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.76%) Magento
4 2 (0.76%) Odoo
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (40.15%) AWS
2 44 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 41 (15.53%) SaaS
4 29 (10.98%) GCP
5 27 (10.23%) Azure
6 18 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (6.82%) Canva
7 16 (6.06%) GitHub
8 13 (4.92%) Google Analytics
9 10 (3.79%) dbt
9 10 (3.79%) Google Ads
10 9 (3.41%) Serverless
11 8 (3.03%) Google Tag Manager
12 7 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 5 (1.89%) Power Platform
15 4 (1.52%) Dataform
15 4 (1.52%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (14.77%) Internet
2 17 (6.44%) Firewall
3 16 (6.06%) Network Security
4 7 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.89%) DMZ
6 3 (1.14%) BGP
6 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.14%) VLAN
6 3 (1.14%) VPN
6 3 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.76%) AMQP
7 2 (0.76%) DHCP
7 2 (0.76%) DNS
7 2 (0.76%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.76%) LAN
7 2 (0.76%) MQTT
7 2 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.30%) BusinessObjects
2 14 (5.30%) SAP HANA
3 10 (3.79%) Looker
4 9 (3.41%) Big Data
4 9 (3.41%) Metadata
5 7 (2.65%) BigQuery
5 7 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.14%) DocumentDB
6 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.14%) MySQL
6 3 (1.14%) Power BI
6 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.76%) DTS
7 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.06%) TeamCity
2 6 (2.27%) JIRA
3 4 (1.52%) Git
4 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.14%) Maven
5 2 (0.76%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.76%) Gatling
5 2 (0.76%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.76%) Pa11y
5 2 (0.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.38%) GCC
6 1 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 93 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 84 (31.82%) Marketing
3 64 (24.24%) Finance
4 54 (20.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (15.91%) Retail
7 40 (15.15%) Banking
8 38 (14.39%) Law
9 30 (11.36%) Legal
10 27 (10.23%) Public Speaking
11 24 (9.09%) Public Sector
12 20 (7.58%) Military
13 14 (5.30%) Advertising
13 14 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (4.17%) Financial Institution
14 11 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (3.03%) Back Office
15 8 (3.03%) Multimedia
16 6 (2.27%) Publishing
16 6 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (21.21%) Senior
2 39 (14.77%) Architect
3 32 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (7.95%) Lead
4 21 (7.95%) Marketing Manager
5 17 (6.44%) Senior Architect
6 16 (6.06%) Senior Manager
6 16 (6.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.68%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.30%) Consultant
9 13 (4.92%) Analyst
9 13 (4.92%) Marketing Executive
9 13 (4.92%) Technology Manager
10 9 (3.41%) Developer
11 8 (3.03%) Customer Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Customer Service Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 8 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Security Consultant
11 8 (3.03%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.27%) CSS
1 6 (2.27%) HTML
1 6 (2.27%) Middleware
1 6 (2.27%) Node.js
1 6 (2.27%) React
1 6 (2.27%) RESTful
2 5 (1.89%) Kafka
2 5 (1.89%) Web Services
3 4 (1.52%) Django
3 4 (1.52%) EDI
3 4 (1.52%) Sass
4 3 (1.14%) .NET
4 3 (1.14%) Express.js
4 3 (1.14%) Godot
4 3 (1.14%) OpenACC
4 3 (1.14%) REST
4 3 (1.14%) Swagger
4 3 (1.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 3 (1.14%) Unreal Engine
4 3 (1.14%) WebXR
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 49 (18.56%) Onboarding
3 41 (15.53%) Social Media
4 25 (9.47%) Web Conferencing
5 16 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.68%) Podcast
7 14 (5.30%) Marketing Technology
7 14 (5.30%) Security Posture
8 12 (4.55%) Product Ownership
9 11 (4.17%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.03%) AI Agents
10 8 (3.03%) PKI
11 7 (2.65%) Fat Client
11 7 (2.65%) IoT
11 7 (2.65%) Thin Client
12 5 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.68%) Linux
1 15 (5.68%) Windows
2 2 (0.76%) Android
2 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.85%) AI
2 86 (32.58%) Analytics
3 59 (22.35%) Roadmaps
4 56 (21.21%) Mentoring
5 42 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (15.53%) Decision-Making
7 40 (15.15%) Test Automation
8 39 (14.77%) B2B
8 39 (14.77%) CI/CD
9 38 (14.39%) Agile
9 38 (14.39%) SEO
10 37 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (13.64%) Digital Marketing
11 36 (13.64%) Thought Leadership
12 35 (13.26%) Collaborative Working
12 35 (13.26%) Systems Engineering
13 34 (12.88%) DevOps
13 34 (12.88%) Fintech
14 33 (12.50%) Software Engineering
15 31 (11.74%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.91%) Java
2 38 (14.39%) Python
3 18 (6.82%) JavaScript
3 18 (6.82%) SQL
4 12 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.41%) Go
6 4 (1.52%) Bash
6 4 (1.52%) Perl
6 4 (1.52%) Ruby
7 2 (0.76%) C++
7 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 55 (20.83%) Degree
2 47 (17.80%) Security Cleared
3 34 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (9.85%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.41%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.03%) CISSP
8 7 (2.65%) CISM
8 7 (2.65%) CREST Certified
8 7 (2.65%) CRISC
8 7 (2.65%) GSEC
9 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.89%) PhD
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.76%) MBA
11 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.38%) GPEN
12 1 (0.38%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.47%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.44%) PCI DSS
4 14 (5.30%) NIST
5 12 (4.55%) JSP 440
6 8 (3.03%) QA
7 7 (2.65%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.65%) Government Security Classifications
7 7 (2.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 6 (2.27%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.89%) GDPR
9 5 (1.89%) GRC
9 5 (1.89%) NCSC
10 3 (1.14%) SLA
11 2 (0.76%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.03%) Docker
3 3 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (12.12%) Terraform
2 30 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.06%) Grafana
4 2 (0.76%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.38%) Nessus
5 1 (0.38%) Nmap
5 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (10.23%) Google
2 20 (7.58%) Adobe
3 17 (6.44%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.44%) SAP
4 13 (4.92%) HubSpot
5 6 (2.27%) Ahrefs
5 6 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.52%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (1.14%) Facebook
7 3 (1.14%) Oracle
7 3 (1.14%) Pardot
7 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.14%) VMware
8 2 (0.76%) Avaya
8 2 (0.76%) Cisco
8 2 (0.76%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.76%) Genesys
8 2 (0.76%) IBM
8 2 (0.76%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.38%) Hootsuite