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 have cited Blog over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 605 393 472
Rank change year-on-year -212 +79 +16
Permanent jobs citing Blog 122 1,049 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.83% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 1.90% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 87 218 287
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,125 £35,600
25th Percentile £41,678 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,291 £57,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.07% -23.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,600 £71,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £102,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,291 £60,000 £70,400
% change year-on-year -4.52% -14.77% +40.80%

All Generic Skills
UK

Blog is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,913 55,308 57,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.98% 43.77% 44.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,617 30,324 33,815
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,895 £33,713
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,868 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +6.45% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 November 2023.

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 30 November 2023. 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 -247 81 £56,145 -0.67% 174
Work from Home +47 76 £57,291 -15.13% 78
UK excluding London +24 52 £57,291 -4.52% 115
London -150 33 £57,291 - 75
North of England +110 16 £57,291 -4.52% 46
Scotland +58 9 £70,000 +7.69% 7
South East +84 8 £30,000 -50.00% 24
Yorkshire +75 7 £32,500 +22.64% 11
Wales +12 6 £57,291 -8.34% 2
Midlands +98 5 £57,291 +44.54% 19
East of England +62 5 £35,000 -61.11% 11
North East +45 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
West Midlands +113 4 £57,291 +14.58% 11
North West +75 4 £56,145 -3.63% 33
Northern Ireland +37 2 £57,291 -20.98%
South West +49 1 £75,348 +52.22% 6
East Midlands +44 1 £34,000 -5.25% 8

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 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
2 2 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (1.64%) CMS
2 2 (1.64%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) MODX
2 2 (1.64%) MS Exchange
2 2 (1.64%) Site Server
2 2 (1.64%) WordPress
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.82%) JBoss
3 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.64%) Campfire
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.82%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.31%) AWS
2 25 (20.49%) Azure
2 25 (20.49%) dbt
3 16 (13.11%) Serverless
4 15 (12.30%) GitHub
5 11 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.02%) GCP
5 11 (9.02%) IaaS
5 11 (9.02%) PaaS
6 10 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (6.56%) Google Ads
9 7 (5.74%) Google Analytics
10 5 (4.10%) MailChimp
10 5 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) DNS
1 2 (1.64%) IP Telephony
1 2 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (1.64%) WebEx
1 2 (1.64%) Wireless
2 1 (0.82%) SMS
2 1 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.46%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.64%) Power BI
3 2 (1.64%) Tableau
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.82%) Big Data
4 1 (0.82%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.82%) HBase
4 1 (0.82%) Impala
4 1 (0.82%) Metadata
4 1 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.82%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 20 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.48%) Git
3 12 (9.84%) GitLab
4 11 (9.02%) TeamCity
5 10 (8.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.46%) JIRA
General
1 42 (34.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 29 (23.77%) Marketing
4 14 (11.48%) Finance
5 11 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.56%) Retail
7 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.10%) Advertising
8 5 (4.10%) Legal
9 4 (3.28%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.46%) Publishing
10 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.64%) Games
11 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.64%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.82%) Banking
12 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.82%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 21 (17.21%) Senior
2 19 (15.57%) Lead
3 18 (14.75%) User Researcher
4 14 (11.48%) Software Engineer
5 12 (9.84%) Developer
5 12 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Microsoft Engineer
7 9 (7.38%) Product Manager
8 7 (5.74%) Analyst
8 7 (5.74%) Security Researcher
9 6 (4.92%) Designer
9 6 (4.92%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Marketing Executive
10 5 (4.10%) Marketing Manager
10 5 (4.10%) Sales Executive
10 5 (4.10%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.66%) Node.js
2 11 (9.02%) .NET
3 7 (5.74%) Django
3 7 (5.74%) React
4 4 (3.28%) HTML
4 4 (3.28%) Web Services
5 2 (1.64%) NestJS
5 2 (1.64%) Sass
5 2 (1.64%) Velocity
6 1 (0.82%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.82%) CSS
6 1 (0.82%) JSON
6 1 (0.82%) Kafka
6 1 (0.82%) Middleware
6 1 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.49%) Social Media
2 17 (13.93%) Mobile App
3 9 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.92%) Graphic Design
5 5 (4.10%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.46%) Acoustics
7 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.64%) Handset
8 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.64%) Robotics
8 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.64%) Solar Panel
8 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.82%) Podcast
9 1 (0.82%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.82%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.48%) Windows
2 11 (9.02%) Linux
3 10 (8.20%) VMS
4 9 (7.38%) Apple iOS
5 7 (5.74%) Android
6 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.44%) Agile
2 28 (22.95%) Software Engineering
2 28 (22.95%) User Research
3 25 (20.49%) DevOps
4 20 (16.39%) CI/CD
5 18 (14.75%) Mentoring
5 18 (14.75%) Open Source
6 15 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.30%) Scrum
6 15 (12.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 14 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (11.48%) Digital Marketing
8 13 (10.66%) Analytics
8 13 (10.66%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (10.66%) Decision-Making
8 13 (10.66%) Digital Engineering
9 12 (9.84%) Code Quality
9 12 (9.84%) People Management
9 12 (9.84%) Project Management
10 11 (9.02%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.49%) Python
2 22 (18.03%) Java
3 13 (10.66%) C#
3 13 (10.66%) Ruby
4 12 (9.84%) Go
4 12 (9.84%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.84%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.20%) Bash
6 8 (6.56%) SQL
6 8 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.74%) C
7 7 (5.74%) C++
8 5 (4.10%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.28%) PHP
10 2 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.82%) R
11 1 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) Degree
4 11 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.46%) PhD
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.49%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.46%) ISO 13485
3 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.64%) SLA
3 2 (1.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.82%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (18.03%) Docker
2 12 (9.84%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.82%) Ceph
4 1 (0.82%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 28 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 21 (17.21%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) Ansible
3 1 (0.82%) Grafana
3 1 (0.82%) Kibana
3 1 (0.82%) Nagios
3 1 (0.82%) Oozie
3 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.03%) Google
3 11 (9.02%) Adobe
4 8 (6.56%) HubSpot
5 7 (5.74%) Facebook
5 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.28%) Instagram
6 4 (3.28%) Twitter
7 3 (2.46%) YouTube
8 2 (1.64%) TikTok
9 1 (0.82%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.82%) Pinterest
9 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.82%) Remedy