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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 335 392
Rank change year-on-year -46 +57 +104
Contract jobs citing Content Development 18 25 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.16% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 7
10th Percentile £150 £309 £325
25th Percentile £306 £353 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -15.79% -34.48%
75th Percentile £500 £425 £569
90th Percentile £590 £470 £669
UK median daily rate £454 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -6.87% +8.33% -14.29%
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 and 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 15,488 13,615 17,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.73% 85.92% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,453 7,914 11,623
10th Percentile £215 £241 £250
25th Percentile £373 £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 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 854 1,266
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%
75th Percentile £44.95 £64.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.33 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -43 8 £358 -10.50% 121
South East -11 5 £525 +5.00% 107
Scotland +4 4 £454 +14.94% 24
North West -17 4 £500 +25.00% 57
Yorkshire -40 3 £150 -54.55% 57
North East -4 1 £501 +11.22% 7
West Midlands -28 1 £425 - 55
Midlands -34 1 £425 - 113
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 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Notion
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (5.56%) Quicktime
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Canva
1 3 (16.67%) ChatGPT
1 3 (16.67%) Zapier
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) HTTP
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Looker
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Marketing
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Digital Executive
4 2 (11.11%) Communications Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Communications Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Content Designer
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Manager
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) REST
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (16.67%) Midjourney
1 3 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Social Media
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.56%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Analytics
2 4 (22.22%) AI
2 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 4 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (22.22%) SIEM
3 3 (16.67%) Coaching
3 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing Strategy
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 3 (16.67%) SOAR
3 3 (16.67%) Social Media Management
3 3 (16.67%) Use Case
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Storytelling
4 2 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
1 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 3 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Splunk
2 3 (16.67%) YouTube
3 2 (11.11%) ArcSight
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe