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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 354 339
Rank change year-on-year -105 -15 +70
Contract jobs citing Content Development 18 16 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.12% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 9
10th Percentile £274 - £313
25th Percentile £341 £150 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £390
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +15.38% -27.44%
75th Percentile £435 £454 £400
90th Percentile £499 £520 £538
UK median daily rate £450 £454 £445
% change year-on-year -0.88% +2.02% +18.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £44.38 £55.50
25th Percentile - £44.56 -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £48.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.91% -19.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £52.06 -
90th Percentile - £52.33 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £48.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.81% -19.58% -7.69%

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 22,790 13,781 14,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.82% 89.24% 83.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,926 8,287 8,563
10th Percentile £300 £233 £243
25th Percentile £409 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,741 1,450 1,209
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.00 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.96 £17.75
Median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -47 7 £528 - 3
West Midlands -45 6 - - 2
South East -58 6 £400 -20.00% 14
South West - 2 £288 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 3
Scotland -25 1 £275 -39.43% 1
East Midlands - 1 £528 - 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 3 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (5.56%) Google Workspace
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Publishing
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Content Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Content Marketing Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Content Editor
3 1 (5.56%) Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Learning Designer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Trainer
3 1 (5.56%) Trainer
3 1 (5.56%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (11.11%) Animation
2 2 (11.11%) Blog
2 2 (11.11%) e-Learning
2 2 (11.11%) Learning Management System
2 2 (11.11%) Social Media
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) PLM
2 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (16.67%) Storyboarding
4 2 (11.11%) Campaign Management
4 2 (11.11%) Content Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Content Marketing Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Content Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) ERP
4 2 (11.11%) Line Management
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) SEO
4 2 (11.11%) Social Media Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Value Proposition
4 2 (11.11%) Workflow
4 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) ArcSight
3 1 (5.56%) Concur
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Intel
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk