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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 325 398
Rank change year-on-year -42 +73 +106
Contract jobs citing Content Development 17 37 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.21% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.26% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £150 £313 £390
25th Percentile £200 £327 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £395 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -21.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £460 £438 £613
90th Percentile £510 £519 £697
UK median daily rate £452 £448 £400
% change year-on-year +1.01% +11.88% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £44.38 £55.50 -
25th Percentile £44.56 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £48.25 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £52.06 - £67.50
90th Percentile £52.33 - £69.00
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -19.58% -7.69% +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 14,184 14,408 18,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.14% 83.60% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 8,147 12,249
10th Percentile £225 £243 £256
25th Percentile £369 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,553 1,009 1,297
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.08 £18.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% -8.14% +70.09%
75th Percentile £39.43 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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
South East +9 6 £500 -14.89% 12
North of England -35 6 £150 -62.50% 2
Scotland -6 4 £454 +21.07%
North West -18 3 £450 +12.50% 1
Yorkshire -23 3 £150 -54.55% 1
Midlands -14 1 £425 - 4
West Midlands -20 1 £425 - 3
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 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Notion
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Canva
1 3 (17.65%) ChatGPT
1 3 (17.65%) Zapier
2 2 (11.76%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (17.65%) Marketing
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Designer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Digital Executive
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Content Editor
5 1 (5.88%) Development Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Web Content Editor
5 1 (5.88%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (17.65%) Midjourney
1 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Social Media
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.76%) e-Learning
2 2 (11.76%) Learning Management System
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Analytics
1 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
1 5 (29.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 5 (29.41%) SIEM
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) AI
3 3 (17.65%) Coaching
3 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
3 3 (17.65%) SOAR
3 3 (17.65%) Social Media Management
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Use Case
4 2 (11.76%) Instructional Design
4 2 (11.76%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
2 2 (11.76%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Splunk
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) YouTube
3 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
4 1 (5.88%) Ariba
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.88%) Virgin Media