Content Writer leads the field
Content Writer is the most in-demand content role (120 open, 30% of the field), followed by Content Strategist (105).
Content · State of the market
State of the Content job market.
A live read on content hiring, built from 400 open roles across 167 companies - the 11th-largest field we track, and 1% of everything open. Updated hourly from public job postings.
Synced from public job postings · snapshot October 2026
400
Open roles
+38
Posted this week
167
Companies hiring
$94k
Median base, where disclosed
What the data says
Four things the listings tell us
There are 400 open content roles across 167 companies on LandEarly right now, with 38 posted in the past week. Mid-level roles make up 54% of the openings, and 56% of roles that specify a work model are fully remote.
Weighted toward mid experience
54% of open content roles read as mid-level. Entry-level (intern + junior) roles are 17% - a signal of how open this field is to early-career candidates.
A remote-friendly field
Of content roles that specify a work model, 56% are fully remote and 30% are hybrid. (Many listings don't declare one - this is the share among those that do.)
Companies hiring right now
VML is the most active employer in content (30 open roles, 8% of the field), but the openings are spread across 167 companies in total.
Where the demand is
One field, 5 different jobs
“Content” is a bucket, not a job. It rolls up 5 titles that share a craft but not a day - different scope, different level, different pay band. Which title you're chasing is the first cut worth making.
Open roles by title
Share of 400 listingsExperience level
All open rolesIntern2%
Junior15%
Mid54%
Senior28%
Staff<1%
Principal1%
Executive<1%
Read off each posting at ingest, not a field employers fill in - so this is a share of all 400 open roles, with nothing left out.
Work model
Where declaredOn-site 15%Hybrid 30%Remote 56%
Only 172 of 400 content listings declare a work model. These shares cover those, and no others.
Freshness
What’s open, by the week it posted
How old the live content pipeline is - the window where applying early still puts you in front of a human instead of a stack.
Aug 3This week
+38
content roles posted in the last seven days, across 167 employers - 10% of everything open in the field.
Each bar is the open roles posted that week, not a count of everything posted then: roles that have since closed are gone from it, so older weeks read lighter by design. The window starts when we began ingesting content listings, because a week-by-week series that ran further back would measure our board coverage rather than the market. 4 listings carry no posting date and sit out of this chart.
Pay, where disclosed
Base salary, from listings that state one
Base only. Bonus, commission and equity are real money but listings describe them too inconsistently to compare, so they stay out of the maths rather than inflate it.
25th percentile
$76k
The bottom of the middle 50%
Median
$94k
Half of priced listings pay more
75th percentile
$138k
Top of the middle 50%
$76k$94k$138k
What the number is
Computed from the 87 open content listings that state an annual base range - one midpoint per listing. The other 313 state none, and are not estimated in.
Content Writer salary guideWho's hiring, and where
167 companies, 9 metros
Most active employers
Open content roles
Top locations
Open content rolesNew York, NY31
San Francisco, CA27
Chicago, IL10
Toronto, ON6
Boston, MA5
Seattle, WA5
Dallas, TX4
Miami, FL4
Los Angeles, CA3
Employers write locations as free text, so every spelling of a city is resolved to one market before it’s counted. A listing naming several markets counts in each, so these don’t sum to the field. The 226 that name no city - remote, “Hybrid”, a campus or a building - sit out entirely rather than get attributed to one.
Methodology
How we compute this
Short version: we count listings, we don't model them. Where the data is thin, the page says so instead of guessing.
Counted, not estimated
Every figure comes from the 400 active content listings we track across 15 applicant-tracking systems, ingested hourly from public job boards. A role that closes this morning drops out this afternoon.
Shares state their own denominator
Work-model percentages cover only the 172 listings that declare one. Experience level is read off every posting at ingest, so those shares cover the whole field. We’d rather show the smaller base than fill the gap.
A field rolls up related titles
Content covers Content Writer, Content Strategist, Technical Writer and 2 more titles. A posting joins a title when its own text describes that job - the roll-up is on the classified role, never on a keyword in the headline.
FAQ
Common questions
How many content jobs are open right now?
400 as of October 2026, across 167 companies, with 38 posted in the last seven days. The count is recomputed every hour and roles that close drop out the same day.
Which content roles are most in demand?
Content Writer (120 open), Content Strategist (105 open), and Technical Writer (100 open) - out of 5 content titles carrying at least one open role today.
Are content jobs remote?
Of the 172 content listings that declare a work model, 56% are fully remote, 30% hybrid and 15% on-site. Most listings never say, so this is the share among those that do - not of the whole field.
What does a content job pay?
Median disclosed base is $94k, with the middle 50% between $76k and $138k. That is base only, computed from the 87 open content listings that state an annual range - bonus, commission and equity are excluded because listings describe them too inconsistently to compare.
What experience level are content jobs?
54% of open content roles read as mid-level, and 17% are entry-level (intern or junior). The level is read off each posting when we ingest it, so every open role is counted here.
Other fields
Beyond Content
Same method, same hourly refresh - each with its own live count.
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