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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 607 351
Rank change year-on-year +182 -256 +105
Permanent jobs citing Blog 402 157 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.26% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 0.69% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 47 90 228
10th Percentile £22,000 £31,796 £33,202
25th Percentile £30,250 £46,610 £40,413
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,291 £57,850
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% -0.97% -17.36%
75th Percentile £64,599 £69,800 £82,500
90th Percentile £71,200 £75,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,531 £57,291 £65,000
% change year-on-year -39.73% -11.86% +30.00%

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 23,890 22,599 64,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.58% 38.01% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,124 16,431 31,543
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,113 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,383 £45,638 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Blog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Blog in the UK

Blog
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blog.

Salary trend for Blog in the UK

Blog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blog over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Blog in the UK

Blog
Top 16 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 23 October 2024. 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 +192 375 £37,500 -34.54% 101
Work from Home +198 282 £57,500 -11.54% 108
UK excluding London +121 238 £34,531 -39.73% 83
London +110 142 £57,500 -11.54% 25
South East +78 100 £37,500 -2.64% 17
North of England +34 82 £34,063 -40.54% 16
North West +44 72 £31,250 -44.34% 11
East of England -26 37 - - 11
Midlands -21 12 £22,000 -61.60% 18
Yorkshire +29 9 - - 4
East Midlands - 9 £22,000 - 2
Wales +37 3 £50,000 -18.23% 4
West Midlands -36 3 £42,752 -25.38% 16
South West -5 2 £100,000 +49.98% 15
Scotland -15 2 £45,000 -35.71% 1
North East -33 1 £34,063 -47.60% 2

Blog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (2.49%) WordPress
2 8 (1.99%) CMS
3 6 (1.49%) Apache
3 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (1.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (1.00%) InDesign
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (0.75%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 288 (71.64%) AWS
2 259 (64.43%) Amazon Kinesis
3 203 (50.50%) Amazon S3
3 203 (50.50%) Amazon SQS
3 203 (50.50%) AWS Lambda
3 203 (50.50%) Serverless
4 202 (50.25%) GitHub
5 34 (8.46%) GCP
6 24 (5.97%) SaaS
7 9 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (2.24%) Google Analytics
8 7 (1.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (1.49%) Amazon MSK
10 5 (1.24%) Azure
10 5 (1.24%) Google Ads
11 4 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.00%) Canva
11 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.99%) Broadband
1 8 (1.99%) VoIP
1 8 (1.99%) Wireless
1 8 (1.99%) Wireshark
2 3 (0.75%) BGP
2 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.75%) VLAN
2 3 (0.75%) VPN
3 2 (0.50%) Firewall
3 2 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (65.17%) PostgreSQL
2 259 (64.43%) DynamoDB
3 239 (59.45%) Redis
4 70 (17.41%) NoSQL
5 57 (14.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.49%) Flink
6 6 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.49%) MySQL
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.75%) Big Data
8 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.75%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (0.75%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 196 (48.76%) Jenkins
2 47 (11.69%) Gatling
3 11 (2.74%) Git
4 9 (2.24%) JIRA
4 9 (2.24%) TeamCity
5 8 (1.99%) Burp Suite
5 8 (1.99%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.00%) GitLab
6 4 (1.00%) JMeter
6 4 (1.00%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.00%) Selenium
7 3 (0.75%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Flyway
General
1 273 (67.91%) Marketing
2 243 (60.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 218 (54.23%) Advertising
4 87 (21.64%) Social Skills
5 41 (10.20%) Retail
6 31 (7.71%) Electronics
7 30 (7.46%) Billing
7 30 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (6.97%) Law
9 23 (5.72%) Finance
10 19 (4.73%) Banking
11 12 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (1.99%) Games
14 7 (1.74%) Front Office
15 6 (1.49%) Back Office
15 6 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.49%) Local Government
16 4 (1.00%) Police
17 3 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 261 (64.93%) Software Engineer
2 41 (10.20%) Senior
3 20 (4.98%) Lead
4 19 (4.73%) Lead Software Engineer
5 18 (4.48%) Operations Director
6 16 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (3.48%) Scala Engineer
7 14 (3.48%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 14 (3.48%) Technical Leader
8 13 (3.23%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (2.49%) Senior Manager
10 9 (2.24%) Copywriter
10 9 (2.24%) SEO Copywriter
11 8 (1.99%) Penetration Tester
11 8 (1.99%) Tester
12 7 (1.74%) Architect
12 7 (1.74%) Content Manager
13 6 (1.49%) Designer
13 6 (1.49%) SEO Account Manager
13 6 (1.49%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (65.67%) REST
2 210 (52.24%) React
3 197 (49.00%) Node.js
4 196 (48.76%) AngularJS
4 196 (48.76%) Tailwind CSS
5 63 (15.67%) GraphQL
5 63 (15.67%) Web Services
6 57 (14.18%) http4s
6 57 (14.18%) Scalaz
7 20 (4.98%) Lambda Expressions
8 12 (2.99%) .NET
8 12 (2.99%) HTML
9 11 (2.74%) .NET Framework
10 9 (2.24%) XML
11 8 (1.99%) CSS
12 7 (1.74%) .NET Core
12 7 (1.74%) Unity DI Container
13 4 (1.00%) ARM Templates
13 4 (1.00%) Playwright
13 4 (1.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 216 (53.73%) Digital Media
2 63 (15.67%) Media Streaming
3 49 (12.19%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (10.45%) Social Media
5 29 (7.21%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.23%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.49%) Cyberattack
8 10 (2.49%) IoT
9 8 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.99%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.74%) Derivative
10 7 (1.74%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.74%) N-Tier
10 7 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.49%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.49%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.99%) Linux
2 8 (1.99%) Kali Linux
3 5 (1.24%) Unix
4 3 (0.75%) Android
4 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (75.12%) Agile
2 271 (67.41%) Software Engineering
3 208 (51.74%) Scrum
4 201 (50.00%) E-Commerce
5 200 (49.75%) User Experience
6 196 (48.76%) Continuous Delivery
6 196 (48.76%) Epics
6 196 (48.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 86 (21.39%) DevOps
8 82 (20.40%) Open Source
9 68 (16.92%) Coaching
10 64 (15.92%) Mentoring
11 63 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
11 63 (15.67%) Integration Testing
11 63 (15.67%) Unit Testing
12 59 (14.68%) Analytics
13 57 (14.18%) Functional Programming
14 38 (9.45%) Microservices
15 37 (9.20%) End-to-End Testing
16 33 (8.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 208 (51.74%) TypeScript
2 63 (15.67%) Scala
3 40 (9.95%) Java
4 29 (7.21%) Python
5 16 (3.98%) SQL
6 15 (3.73%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.99%) C#
8 6 (1.49%) Go
8 6 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.00%) Bash
10 2 (0.50%) C++
10 2 (0.50%) R
10 2 (0.50%) Rust
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) Fortran
11 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (14.93%) Degree
2 31 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.99%) CREST Certified
3 8 (1.99%) Cyber Scheme
3 8 (1.99%) GIAC
3 8 (1.99%) GPEN
3 8 (1.99%) OSCP
3 8 (1.99%) OSWP
4 6 (1.49%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.24%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.50%) CCNA
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.50%) PhD
8 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.47%) QA
2 12 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.24%) PMO
5 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.75%) SLA
5 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 199 (49.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 208 (51.74%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.73%) Terraform
3 9 (2.24%) Grafana
4 8 (1.99%) Nessus
4 8 (1.99%) Nmap
5 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 36 (8.96%) Google
2 18 (4.48%) Dynatrace
3 7 (1.74%) Adobe
3 7 (1.74%) Bloomberg
4 6 (1.49%) Databricks
4 6 (1.49%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.49%) Screaming Frog
5 5 (1.24%) YouTube
6 4 (1.00%) Oracle
7 3 (0.75%) Facebook
7 3 (0.75%) Instagram
7 3 (0.75%) NEC
7 3 (0.75%) SAP
8 2 (0.50%) Cisco
8 2 (0.50%) dotdigital
8 2 (0.50%) Hootsuite
8 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.50%) Twitter
9 1 (0.25%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.25%) TikTok