Content Writing Contracts

Content Writing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Content Writing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Content Writing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 661 810
Rank change year-on-year +109 +149 -144
Contract jobs citing Content Writing 15 33 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.059% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.066% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 16
10th Percentile £113 £200 £315
25th Percentile £206 £248 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £386 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% -14.17% +38.25%
75th Percentile £525 £473 £606
90th Percentile £588 £529 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £213 £220 £315
% change year-on-year -3.41% -30.16% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £22.28 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.31 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +60.94% +11.11%
75th Percentile £25.75 £29.94 -
90th Percentile - £30.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Content Writing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 May 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 6 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 May 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 +80 15 £350 -2.78% 35
London +75 12 £500 +17.30% 4
Work from Home +109 4 £575 +112.96% 21
UK excluding London +35 1 £213 -3.41% 27
East Midlands - 1 £213 - 5
Midlands - 1 £213 - 7

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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Discord
1 1 (6.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Intranet
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Publishing
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Content Designer
1 3 (20.00%) Content Editor
1 3 (20.00%) Designer
1 3 (20.00%) Digital Content Editor
1 3 (20.00%) Digital Editor
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Writer
3 1 (6.67%) Copywriter
3 1 (6.67%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Blog
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Podcast
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Analytics
1 4 (26.67%) Content Strategy
2 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (20.00%) User Experience
2 3 (20.00%) User Research
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
3 2 (13.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (13.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Service Design
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (6.67%) Content Development
4 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Learning
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA