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Researched articles and pages, written and published.

Also called: Content Writer Virtual Assistant, Blog Writer, SEO Writer

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • SaaS & tech
  • Agencies
  • Professional services
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Content Writer gets doneSample day
  • Researches topics through SERP analysis, keyword toolsResearch and planning
  • Writes SEO blog posts and pillar pages of 1,000-3,000 wordsWriting
  • Handles on-page SEOOptimisation
  • Fact-checks claims and cite credible, current sourcesQuality and integrityDoing
In your tools
  • Google Docs
  • Microsoft Word
  • Grammarly
  • Semrush
  • Google Search Console
  • WordPress

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Content Writer£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Takes a keyword or topic, delivers researched outline and drafts and optimisation end to end.

  • Pillar pages
  • Newsletter issues
  • Monthly LinkedIn ghostwriting packs

2-4 years writing for multiple clients or an in-house content team, with published, bylined work.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Content Writer

Tasks

  • Research and planning

    • Researches topics through SERP analysis, keyword tools
    • Builds outlines from briefs with an H2/H3 structure, target keywords
    • Interviews subject-matter experts to gather original insight and quotes

  • Writing

    • Writes SEO blog posts and pillar pages of 1,000-3,000 words
    • Ghostwrites LinkedIn posts and articles
    • Writes regular newsletter issues
    • Writes customer case studies, white papers and e-books

  • Optimisation

    • Handles on-page SEO
    • Optimises drafts against Surfer SEO or Clearscope content scores
    • Refreshes and updates older posts that are losing rankings

  • Quality and integrity

    • Fact-checks claims and cite credible, current sources
    • Runs plagiarism checks and edits any AI-assisted drafts to human standard
    • Follows your style guide, spelling convention and tone of voice

  • Publishing and workflow

    • Formats and uploads posts in WordPress, Webflow or HubSpot CMS
    • Schedules newsletters in Beehiiv, Substack or Mailchimp
    • Works through feedback within agreed revision rounds

Tested before you meet them

  1. English language and grammar testAll levels30 min
  2. Timed SEO writing sampleAll levels1.5 hrs
  3. AI-draft rescue editAll levels45 min
  4. Voice-matching testIntermediate and up45 min
  5. Portfolio verificationIntermediate and up30 min
  6. SME interview role-playExpert and Specialist30 min
  7. AI workflow test: Brief to publish with AI60 min

One score on every profileSample shown

91%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Content Writer is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Research and planning, writing, optimisation and quality and integrity, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Seven practical tests, marked by a senior, including english language and grammar test, timed SEO writing sample and AI-draft rescue edit. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Content Writer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. This role's skills test includes an AI task, including spotting when the AI gets it wrong. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Content Writer takes a keyword or topic, delivers researched outline and drafts and optimisation end to end. An Expert Content Writer produces complex long-form built on SME interviews and data and writes in regulated industries. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Content Writer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Google Docs and Microsoft Word, before you meet them.

In week one: added to the client's Slack or Teams, shared drive and content tracker; style guide, brand voice document; and SEO tool access provisioned. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Content Writer Virtual Assistant, Blog Writer and SEO Writer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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