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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 327 371
Rank change year-on-year -100 +44 +62
Contract jobs citing Content Development 15 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.10% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 8
10th Percentile £294 £353 £145
25th Percentile £358 £372 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £325
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% +36.62% -40.91%
75th Percentile £570 £489 £388
90th Percentile £581 £500 £427
UK median daily rate £388 £485 £338
% change year-on-year -20.10% +43.70% -26.23%
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 £55.00 £49.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.24% -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 20,096 11,490 17,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.16% 90.63% 84.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,052 7,210 10,195
10th Percentile £300 £231 £250
25th Percentile £401 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £678 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,106 811 2,074
10th Percentile £14.31 £14.20 £12.35
25th Percentile £18.88 £17.30 £15.31
Median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.94% -33.82% +8.57%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -65 10 £510 - 2
North West -30 9 £519 -
West Midlands -66 2 £525 - 1
Midlands -75 2 £525 +5.00% 1
South West -35 1 £288 -33.60% 3
South East -69 1 £470 +10.59% 2
North East - 1 £501 -
East of England - 1 £350 - 1
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 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (13.33%) Quicktime
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (6.67%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Looker
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Publishing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Communications Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Communications Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Content Designer
2 1 (6.67%) Designer
2 1 (6.67%) Developer
2 1 (6.67%) e-Learning Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Head of CRM
2 1 (6.67%) Head of Projects
2 1 (6.67%) Video Content Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) e-Learning
2 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Virtual Team
3 2 (13.33%) Learning Management System
3 2 (13.33%) Video Editing
3 2 (13.33%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Podcast
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Coaching
3 4 (26.67%) Agile Coaching
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) Observability
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (20.00%) AI
4 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 2 (13.33%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (26.67%) IBM Certification
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Google
2 4 (26.67%) IBM
3 3 (20.00%) Adobe
4 1 (6.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (6.67%) Intel
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Zoho