Content Manager Contracts in England

Content Manager
UK > England

The median Content Manager daily rate in England is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 579 745
Rank change year-on-year +69 +166 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Content Manager 4 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.013% 0.025% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.027% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £204 £253 £205
25th Percentile £254 £300 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £415 £300
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +38.33% -
75th Percentile £400 £463 £375
90th Percentile £408 £500 £465
UK median daily rate £300 £188 £313
% change year-on-year +60.00% -40.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.50
Median hourly rate - - £52.00
75th Percentile - - £53.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Content Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Content Manager in England

Content Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Content Manager in England

Content Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Content Manager in England

Content Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Content Manager in England

Content Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +47 4 £375 -11.76% 1
Content Manager
UK

Content Manager Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Content Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) Intranet
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Video on Demand
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (25.00%) Content Curation
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Acoustics
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Headless CMS
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design

Content Manager 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 3 (75.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Video on Demand
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) B2C
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Content Curation
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Customer Experience
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
1 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA