Content Development Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Content Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Content Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 329 383
Rank change year-on-year -54 +54 +99
Contract jobs citing Content Development 24 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.085% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.097% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 10
10th Percentile £150 £309 £145
25th Percentile £358 £353 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% -13.51% -36.21%
75th Percentile £570 £425 £524
90th Percentile £598 £470 £627
UK median daily rate £477 £460 £400
% change year-on-year +3.75% +14.94% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.25 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £50.75 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £69.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £31.62 £65.00
% change year-on-year +50.22% -51.35% +19.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Content Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,539 12,361 16,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.20% 87.57% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,525 7,228 10,715
10th Percentile £220 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,704 707 1,242
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.66
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% -32.42% +55.17%
75th Percentile £54.06 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

Content Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Content Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Content Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Content Development
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Content Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Content Development

Content Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Content Development in the UK excluding London

Content Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Content Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Content Development

Content Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -40 14 £500 +25.00% 4
North West -12 10 £581 +45.25% 3
Scotland +3 4 £454 +14.94% 2
South East -18 4 £450 -10.00% 5
Yorkshire -43 3 £150 -54.55% 1
Midlands -38 2 £475 - 6
West Midlands -38 2 £475 - 6
North East -11 1 £501 +11.22%
Content Development
UK

Content Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (12.50%) Notion
1 3 (12.50%) Quicktime
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
1 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
1 3 (12.50%) Canva
1 3 (12.50%) ChatGPT
1 3 (12.50%) GCP
1 3 (12.50%) Zapier
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (4.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.33%) Looker
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Designer
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Digital Executive
3 2 (8.33%) Communications Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Communications Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Content Designer
4 1 (4.17%) CRM Manager
4 1 (4.17%) CRM Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Head of CRM
4 1 (4.17%) Head of Projects
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Designer
4 1 (4.17%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (12.50%) Midjourney
2 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Social Media
2 3 (12.50%) Video Editing
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Learning Management System
4 1 (4.17%) Podcast
4 1 (4.17%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (29.17%) AI
3 6 (25.00%) Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Coaching
3 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (20.83%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (20.83%) Generative AI
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.67%) Marketing Strategy
5 4 (16.67%) Storytelling
6 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 3 (12.50%) Social Media Management
6 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
1 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 2 (8.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (12.50%) IBM Certification
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
2 3 (12.50%) Adobe
2 3 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) IBM
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) YouTube
3 2 (8.33%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Zoho