Blogs
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Blog over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 481 388
Rank change year-on-year -110 -93 +32
Permanent jobs citing Blog 329 638 1,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.61% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 1.44% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 218 156 389
10th Percentile £26,175 £38,856 £32,097
25th Percentile £30,750 £46,225 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,918 £65,600 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% -9.52% +11.54%
75th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £96,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £61,040
% change year-on-year -36.36% -9.90% +22.08%

All Generic Skills
UK

Blog is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blog in the UK

Blog
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blog.

Salary trend for Blog in the UK

Blog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blog over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Blog in the UK

Blog
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blog within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -115 285 £37,500 -42.31% 117
UK excluding London +109 175 £35,000 -36.36% 73
Work from Home +176 166 £37,500 -50.00% 76
London -128 122 £38,918 -41.52% 43
North of England +68 52 £32,031 -48.75% 32
South East +59 50 £37,500 - 15
North West +42 46 £28,750 - 22
East of England +17 35 £40,649 -18.70% 4
Midlands +26 15 £28,000 -40.60% 16
West Midlands - 11 £26,500 - 8
South West -22 9 £26,000 -49.61% 5
Wales - 7 £42,000 - 3
Yorkshire +81 4 - - 9
East Midlands -3 4 £72,500 +84.62% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £42,000 - 1
Scotland - 3 £25,000 - 3
North East -24 2 £34,531 -48.46% 2

Blog
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 30 (9.12%) CMS
2 24 (7.29%) WordPress
3 14 (4.26%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.82%) SAS
5 5 (1.52%) Drupal
6 3 (0.91%) Confluence
7 2 (0.61%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) Jetty
8 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 31 (9.42%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (4.26%) Photoshop
6 8 (2.43%) InDesign
6 8 (2.43%) SPSS
7 7 (2.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (1.82%) Chatbot
9 4 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (1.22%) Stata
10 2 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Magento
1 5 (1.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (18.54%) AWS
2 25 (7.60%) Azure
2 25 (7.60%) GCP
3 16 (4.86%) Canva
3 16 (4.86%) Serverless
4 15 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (3.95%) GitHub
6 12 (3.65%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.65%) Google Analytics
7 11 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.04%) MailChimp
9 8 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.13%) Figma
10 7 (2.13%) SaaS
11 6 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.22%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
2 2 (0.61%) Intranet
3 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.56%) Relational Database
2 13 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.34%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.04%) BigQuery
5 9 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.43%) Metadata
6 8 (2.43%) MySQL
6 8 (2.43%) Redis
7 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.82%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.91%) Big Data
10 3 (0.91%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.61%) Power BI
11 2 (0.61%) Tableau
12 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (7.60%) Git
2 17 (5.17%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.13%) JIRA
4 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.52%) JUnit
5 3 (0.91%) GitLab
5 3 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.30%) Phabricator
6 1 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 134 (40.73%) Marketing
2 117 (35.56%) Social Skills
3 68 (20.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (13.37%) Retail
5 39 (11.85%) Finance
6 38 (11.55%) Banking
6 38 (11.55%) Law
7 30 (9.12%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (5.47%) Automotive
11 17 (5.17%) Advertising
12 14 (4.26%) Local Government
12 14 (4.26%) Public Sector
13 11 (3.34%) Legal
13 11 (3.34%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.74%) Front Office
15 8 (2.43%) Publishing
16 7 (2.13%) Back Office
16 7 (2.13%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 45 (13.68%) Senior
2 36 (10.94%) Developer
3 24 (7.29%) Senior Manager
4 23 (6.99%) Lead
5 21 (6.38%) Consultant
6 17 (5.17%) Analyst
7 16 (4.86%) Architect
8 15 (4.56%) Administrator
8 15 (4.56%) E-Commerce Administrator
8 15 (4.56%) Linux Consultant
8 15 (4.56%) Web Administrator
9 14 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (3.65%) Communications Officer
11 11 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.34%) Linux Developer
11 11 (3.34%) Software Consultant
11 11 (3.34%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.04%) Communications Manager
12 10 (3.04%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.69%) HTML
1 22 (6.69%) React
2 20 (6.08%) CSS
3 14 (4.26%) Node.js
4 12 (3.65%) REST
5 11 (3.34%) .NET
5 11 (3.34%) GraphQL
6 9 (2.74%) Laravel
7 8 (2.43%) Symfony
8 7 (2.13%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.82%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.82%) Next.js
9 6 (1.82%) RESTful
9 6 (1.82%) Svelte
9 6 (1.82%) Unity DI Container
9 6 (1.82%) XML
10 5 (1.52%) Dagger
10 5 (1.52%) Redux
10 5 (1.52%) Retrofit
10 5 (1.52%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 120 (36.47%) Social Media
2 24 (7.29%) Graphic Design
3 21 (6.38%) IoT
4 18 (5.47%) Client/Server
4 18 (5.47%) Raspberry Pi
4 18 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (4.86%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.56%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.04%) Video Editing
9 9 (2.74%) Digital Media
10 8 (2.43%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.13%) Animation
11 7 (2.13%) NHS
12 6 (1.82%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.82%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.82%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.52%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.90%) Android
1 26 (7.90%) Apple iOS
2 24 (7.29%) Linux
3 3 (0.91%) Windows
4 2 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (19.15%) SEO
2 58 (17.63%) Agile
3 51 (15.50%) Analytics
3 51 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (13.68%) Fintech
5 35 (10.64%) Business Development
5 35 (10.64%) Disruptive Innovation
6 33 (10.03%) Software Engineering
7 31 (9.42%) Project Management
8 30 (9.12%) B2B
8 30 (9.12%) Digital Marketing
9 28 (8.51%) Microservices
10 25 (7.60%) E-Commerce
10 25 (7.60%) Test Automation
11 24 (7.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 24 (7.29%) CI/CD
11 24 (7.29%) Copywriting
11 24 (7.29%) Data Science
11 24 (7.29%) Open Source
11 24 (7.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.03%) Python
2 32 (9.73%) Java
3 26 (7.90%) JavaScript
3 26 (7.90%) SQL
4 22 (6.69%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.17%) Go
6 16 (4.86%) C
7 12 (3.65%) C++
8 11 (3.34%) C#
8 11 (3.34%) R
9 10 (3.04%) PHP
10 8 (2.43%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.82%) Ruby
12 5 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.52%) Rust
12 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.91%) Scala
13 3 (0.91%) Swift
14 2 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 64 (19.45%) Degree
2 12 (3.65%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.52%) PhD
7 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.51%) QA
2 15 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.82%) GDPR
4 5 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.30%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (7.90%) Kubernetes
1 26 (7.90%) Terraform
2 11 (3.34%) Grafana
3 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.52%) logstash
5 1 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (11.25%) Facebook
2 35 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.81%) Adobe
4 27 (8.21%) Google
5 26 (7.90%) Instagram
6 24 (7.29%) Twitter
7 9 (2.74%) YouTube
8 7 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.82%) Oracle
10 4 (1.22%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.91%) Hootsuite
12 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.61%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.30%) Netskope
13 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto
13 1 (0.30%) Pinterest
13 1 (0.30%) SAP
13 1 (0.30%) Zscaler