Content Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Content Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Content Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Development over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 395 496
Rank change year-on-year +58 +101 +2
Contract jobs citing Content Development 32 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.086% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.098% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £360 £300 £550
25th Percentile £395 £375 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -37.93% +62.92%
75th Percentile £475 £613 £788
90th Percentile £575 £697 -
UK median daily rate £500 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +33.33% -28.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
10th Percentile £54.75 - -
25th Percentile £58.13 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +19.27% +109.62%

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 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Content Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Content Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Content Development in the UK excluding London

Content Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Content Development in the UK excluding London

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 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Development in the UK excluding London

Content Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Content Development in the UK excluding London

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 31 October 2024. 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 +41 14 £400 -20.00% 1
North West +34 9 £400 -5.88%
East of England +22 5 - - 2
Scotland - 4 £395 -
South East +42 3 £588 - 1
Yorkshire +18 3 £330 -42.61% 1
Midlands -3 3 - - 2
West Midlands -5 3 - - 2
North East - 2 £450 -
South West +26 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Content Development
UK

Content Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (9.38%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.25%) Maya
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) NUKE
3 1 (3.13%) Camtasia
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Dynamics 365
1 10 (31.25%) GitHub
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.13%) GCP
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) IPv4
1 1 (3.13%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Aerospace
3 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Automotive
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Italian Language
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Publishing
5 1 (3.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) e-Learning Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Tools Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Digital Developer
5 1 (3.13%) SIAM Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Unreal Engine
1 2 (6.25%) V-Ray
2 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.13%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) e-Learning
2 2 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.13%) CSOC
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.13%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Use Case
1 7 (21.88%) Validation
2 5 (15.63%) Data Management
2 5 (15.63%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (6.25%) Agile
4 2 (6.25%) Analytics
4 2 (6.25%) Behavioural Change
4 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (6.25%) Content Writing
4 2 (6.25%) Culture Change
4 2 (6.25%) ERP
4 2 (6.25%) Scrum
4 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.13%) Blue Team
5 1 (3.13%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
5 1 (3.13%) Purple Team
5 1 (3.13%) SIAM
5 1 (3.13%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Java
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) VB
4 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Perforce
2 1 (3.13%) ArcSight
2 1 (3.13%) FireEye
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) LogRhythm
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Splunk
2 1 (3.13%) Tanium