Content Writing Contracts

Content Writing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Content Writing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Content Writing 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 530 589 805
Rank change year-on-year +59 +216 -14
Contract jobs citing Content Writing 19 38 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.081% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.091% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 21
10th Percentile £435 £188 £288
25th Percentile £480 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £577 £506 £500
90th Percentile £592 £525 £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £275 £390
% change year-on-year +100.96% -29.49% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.72 £13.00 -
Median hourly rate £17.47 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.79% - -
75th Percentile £18.22 £22.88 -
90th Percentile - £27.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.47 £14.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Content Writing 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,490 41,786 73,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.08% 88.59% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,955 28,261 50,998
10th Percentile £310 £311 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,122 1,595 1,727
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.35
25th Percentile £20.03 £18.93 £17.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
% change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%

Content Writing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Content Writing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Content Writing in the UK

Content Writing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Writing.

Daily rate trend for Content Writing in the UK

Content Writing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Writing over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Writing in the UK

Content Writing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Writing.

Hourly rate trend for Content Writing in the UK

Content Writing
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Writing within the UK 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
England +56 17 £564 +50.35% 45
UK excluding London +45 13 £553 +100.96% 42
North of England +38 10 £553 +176.32% 20
North West +31 7 £565 +182.41% 13
London +32 5 £538 +15.90% 2
Work from Home +65 3 £575 +64.29% 3
North East - 2 £450 - 1
South West +26 1 £575 +53.33% 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
East of England - 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £400 -

Content Writing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) Drupal
3 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (26.32%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Sketch
2 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Figma
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Marketing
3 7 (36.84%) Publishing
4 6 (31.58%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Author
3 4 (21.05%) Designer
4 3 (15.79%) Content Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Compliance Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Content Editor
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Network Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Writer
5 1 (5.26%) Trainer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Content Editor
5 1 (5.26%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) CSS
1 6 (31.58%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (26.32%) Mobile App
2 5 (26.32%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Personalization
1 6 (31.58%) Requirements Gathering
1 6 (31.58%) User Experience
2 5 (26.32%) Customer Experience
2 5 (26.32%) SEO
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Content Development
4 2 (10.53%) Content Management
4 2 (10.53%) Copywriting
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) LLM
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.26%) Time Management
5 1 (5.26%) Usability Testing
5 1 (5.26%) User Research
5 1 (5.26%) UX Design
5 1 (5.26%) UX Research
5 1 (5.26%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Adobe
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft