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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 348 350
Rank change year-on-year -113 +2 +76
Contract jobs citing Content Development 11 13 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.087% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.098% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £259 £354 £237
25th Percentile £273 £387 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +28.57% -36.36%
75th Percentile £488 £478 £388
90th Percentile £520 £540 £538
UK median daily rate £399 £485 £393
% change year-on-year -17.78% +23.28% -21.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £45.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £49.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.33% -
75th Percentile - £52.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £49.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.69% -14.78% +9.52%

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 22,084 13,271 16,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 89.18% 82.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,098 8,044 9,859
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £365 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,237 1,851
10th Percentile £14.47 £14.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.34 £16.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.95%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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
Midlands -52 7 £528 -
West Midlands -54 6 - -
South West -37 2 £288 -33.60% 1
North West -48 1 £250 -44.44% 2
South East -63 1 £470 -6.00% 10
North of England -75 1 £250 -44.44% 4
East Midlands - 1 £528 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Learning Designer
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Trainer
2 1 (9.09%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Learning Management System
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) VLE
2 1 (9.09%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) PLM
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) ERP
2 2 (18.18%) Instructional Design
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (9.09%) Pedagogy
3 1 (9.09%) Production Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Sales Enablement
3 1 (9.09%) SOAR
3 1 (9.09%) Storyboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) ArcSight
1 1 (9.09%) Concur
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Intel
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk