Content Editor Contracts in England

Content Editor
UK > England

The median Content Editor daily rate in England is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 629 763
Rank change year-on-year +96 +134 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Content Editor 10 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.019% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.020% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 16
10th Percentile £184 £196 £222
25th Percentile £250 £200 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £238 £400
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -40.63% +73.91%
75th Percentile £397 £347 £462
90th Percentile £400 £381 £650
UK median daily rate £375 £238 £400
% change year-on-year +57.89% -40.63% +77.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Content Editor
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Content Editor in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Content Editor in England

Content Editor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Editor in England.

Daily rate trend for Content Editor in England

Content Editor
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Editor in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Editor in England

Content Editor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Editor in England.

Hourly rate trend for Content Editor in England

Content Editor
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Editor within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +93 9 £375 +87.50% 1
North of England +23 1 £160 -32.63% 1
North West +17 1 £160 -20.00%
Content Editor
UK

Content Editor Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Content Editor contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Content Editor in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) CMS
1 6 (60.00%) Content Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) User Research
3 3 (30.00%) Content Writing
3 3 (30.00%) Intranet
3 3 (30.00%) Jadu
3 3 (30.00%) Local Government
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Adobe
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (10.00%) Figma
5 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
5 1 (10.00%) Personalization
5 1 (10.00%) A/B Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Content Curation
5 1 (10.00%) Squarespace
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Content Management
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) SEO
5 1 (10.00%) Publishing
5 1 (10.00%) Optimizely
5 1 (10.00%) Social Media
5 1 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Statistics

Content Editor Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (60.00%) CMS
2 3 (30.00%) Jadu
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Drupal
3 1 (10.00%) EPiServer
3 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
3 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Figma
1 1 (10.00%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Intranet
General
1 3 (30.00%) Local Government
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Content Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) User Research
3 3 (30.00%) Content Writing
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) A/B Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Content Curation
5 1 (10.00%) Content Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Personalization
5 1 (10.00%) SEO
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Statistics
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) UX Design
5 1 (10.00%) Web Accessibility
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Optimizely