Average Content Designer salary in the UK

Reed Marketing and Creative are working with a national brand who are currently looking for a Content Designer to join their User Experience team. This role is crucial in creating, evaluating, editing, and updating content to support the delivery of their products and services. The ideal candidate will be a confident editor, adept at writing and reviewing content, and using multimedia to ensure information is accessible and user-friendly. Please note that this is a fixed term contract of 14 months from September.  Day-to-day of the role: Work independently or within agile delivery teams to create content that meets user needs and simplifies complex information.Use evidence, data, and research to evaluate and update content throughout the user journey.Write in plain English, ensuring content is understandable to different audiences and meets accessibility standards.Contribute to style guidelines and content patterns, maintaining tone of voice and consistency.Focus on outcomes and the impact of content on end-users, contributing to the creation of success measures.Collaborate with agile teams to create and promote content for digital products, applying an agile mindset.Communicate effectively with stakeholders, tailoring communication to suit the audience.Present content and insights to stakeholders, teams, and users to inform decision-making.Engage with the Communications team and contribute to the cross-government content community.Use various tools and platforms to plan and manage workloads.Contribute to content strategies and policies, communicating them within the team.Champion user-centred design practices and represent the user in a multidisciplinary team.Be an active member of the UX practice, promoting a user-centred culture across the organisation. Required Skills & Qualifications: Proven experience as a Content Designer or in a similar role.Strong editing and writing skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise content.Experience with multimedia content creation.Familiarity with user-centred design principles and agile methodologies.Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Knowledge of style guidelines, content patterns, and accessibility requirements.Proficiency in using a range of tools and platforms for content management. Benefits: £447.00 (PAYE) £575.00 (Umbrella) per dayHybrid working model with flexibility.Opportunity to be part of a leading organisation focused on innovation and user experience.Professional development and growth opportunities.

Are you a Content Designer in search for an exciting hybrid working new job opportunity? If so, the Greater London Authority are looking to recruit Content Designers on a 3-month contract (with possibility of an extension), starting immediately, to join their team. The role is full time, Monday to Friday with hybrid work arrangements of 1-2 days in the office each week, in their London Bridge office. The role: The role will help support and maintain GLA's intranet day-to-day, but also will need to use and develop their content design skills. The role will work on everything from supporting and training devolved publishers to full-scale content redesign projects. You'll also have the opportunity to support and feed into our content strategy and training offer. The current intranet projects include some high-profile strategic pieces of work supporting the organisation’s move to new ways of working. You will be involved in helping map these processes and making the changes easier for staff to navigate. You will work alongside business analysts, user researchers as well as the wider staff, helping transform the intranet into a valuable resource. Key Responsibilities: Work collaboratively with stakeholders and content owners to plan, create and develop usable and accessible content for our digital channels, ensuring efficient user journeys between digital platforms.Provide best practice and technical support to stakeholders and content owners to publish different content types. Contribute to the development and use of the style guides and content patterns. Help align activity and ensure brand consistency in content and approach.Provide hands-on content design for complex projects, including page mapping, audience identification and information architecture, to ensure user-friendly navigation.Ensure the organisation’s web content meets best practice and accessibility standards, including monitoring, quality checking, testing and optimising to maintain high standards.Communicate and champion digital content and solutions across the digital estate, internally and externally.Provide GDPR and technical support for data and integration management on internal and external platforms.Work in an agile environment. Bring together user and stakeholder needs, plan and communicate design decisions to key stakeholders. Build upon iterative feedback to continuously improve content quality.Use data and insights to assess the effectiveness of digital content to improve usability, accessibility and search engine optimisation (SEO).Upskill staff, deliver Content Management System (CMS) training and give advice on best practice to content owners. Ensure staff can upload and maintain compelling content on their pages.Realise the benefits of a flexible approach to work in undertaking the duties and responsibilities of this job, and participating in multi-disciplinary, cross-department and cross-organisational groups and project teams.Realise the benefits of London’s diversity by promoting and enabling equality of opportunities and promoting the diverse needs and aspirations of London’s communities. Due to the nature of the role, applicants must have worked as a Content Designer or Editor to be considered for the role. If you have the required experience and skillset apply now for immediate consideration.

HM Land Registry ("HMLR") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for 2 Senior Content Designers to work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team with other digital and technical experts to deliver one or more digital services. Starting salary of £41,887 - £43,137 dependent upon interview assessment plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28% pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Birkenhead, Coventry, Durham, Flyde, Gloucester, Hull, Leicester, Nottingham, Plymouth, Swansea, Telford, Weymouth . As a Senior Content Designer, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team and together, you will be responsible for designing accessible, easy-to-use public services that work across multiple channels, devices, browsers and platforms. Responsibilities include: Manage and quality control the creation, updating and reviewing of content at all stages of the end-to-end user journeyStart from discovery and work closely with senior user researchers, service designers and interaction designers across multiple projects and servicesWork with other content professionals across HM Land Registry to make sure content is consistent and coherent across channelsUse evidence, data and research to make content decisionsBuild relationships with senior stakeholders across HM Land Registry to advocate for user needs and build maturity in content designWork with the wider project team to ensure that services meet the Government Service Standard, participating in services assessments as necessary to provide content design evidence to support the relevant points?Present and deliver their work within their agile team, at show and tells and at community critique and feedback sessions Essential skills and experience: Experience designing content for services, from concept to final deliveryKnowledge of what good end-to-end services look like and the importance of designing content in an inclusive, accessible wayExperience of making evidence-based decisions to meet user needsDeveloping and contributing to high-level strategic content design for one or more projects, that may include activities such as audits, plans and quality assurance activityThe ability to listen to the needs of senior technical and business stakeholders and interpret them in a way that is clear for everyoneSetting the guidelines and key performance metrics for content performance and show how you and the team have used that to create actionable insightShow an understanding of how the projects content design strategy is linked to organisation's objectiveTranslate user research insights to formulate hypotheses, identify constraints and make design decisions and communicate these effectively to senior stakeholders in the project team such as delivery managers, service owners and senior product managers Benefits Alongside your salary, HM Land Registry contributes £9,881 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme and the following benefits:Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidaysPersonalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set asideFlexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)Attractive pension options inc. 28% Civil Service PensionSocial and sports clubAccess to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issuesInterest-free loan for season ticketsCycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working. Further information If you are a Content Designer and are looking to join a team who form part of supporting the national infrastructure, please apply or contact Charys Colchester for a confidential conversation.