Advertising Contracts

Advertising
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Advertising over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 414 561
Rank change year-on-year -31 +147 -76
Contract jobs citing Advertising 153 327 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.55% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.93% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 257 218
10th Percentile £200 £268 £274
25th Percentile £260 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £600
90th Percentile £600 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £529 £533
% change year-on-year -29.08% -0.70% +36.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 14
10th Percentile £6.57 - £21.38
25th Percentile £15.04 £35.00 £33.44
Median hourly rate £41.08 £43.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +7.50% -5.29%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.00 £51.31
90th Percentile £63.34 £53.75 £65.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £11.48 £43.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -73.31% +152.94% -

All General Skills
UK

Advertising is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advertising.

Daily rate trend for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advertising.

Hourly rate trend for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Advertising over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -6 151 £400 -23.08% 624
London +40 103 £425 -18.27% 278
UK excluding London -27 46 £375 -29.08% 381
Work from Home +30 41 £420 -20.94% 334
South East +10 14 £350 -17.16% 92
North of England +32 9 £475 +90.00% 108
South West +5 9 £345 -23.33% 55
Midlands -26 9 £260 -59.22% 73
East of England +9 5 £400 -36.00% 39
East Midlands - 5 £500 - 27
North West +12 4 £375 +50.00% 64
West Midlands 0 4 £255 -61.07% 46
Yorkshire +22 3 £475 +46.15% 37
North East +21 2 £325 +96.97% 11

Advertising
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 6 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.96%) Drupal
2 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.96%) Moodle
3 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.88%) InDesign
2 9 (5.88%) Photoshop
3 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (3.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.96%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.31%) Sketch
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.65%) InVision
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (6.54%) Azure
3 7 (4.58%) AWS
3 7 (4.58%) GCP
4 6 (3.92%) Figma
4 6 (3.92%) Google Analytics
4 6 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.27%) Adobe Analytics
5 5 (3.27%) WhatsApp
6 2 (1.31%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.31%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.31%) MailChimp
6 2 (1.31%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.31%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.31%) SurveyMonkey
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.65%) Canva
7 1 (0.65%) GitHub
7 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Firewall
2 2 (1.31%) BGP
2 2 (1.31%) HTTP
2 2 (1.31%) MPLS
2 2 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) DWDM
3 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.65%) IPsec
3 1 (0.65%) Junos
3 1 (0.65%) LAN
3 1 (0.65%) SAN
3 1 (0.65%) SDH
3 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.65%) SSH
3 1 (0.65%) SSL
3 1 (0.65%) VLAN
3 1 (0.65%) VPN
3 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.23%) Tableau
2 6 (3.92%) Power BI
3 5 (3.27%) BigQuery
3 5 (3.27%) Looker
3 5 (3.27%) MySQL
4 3 (1.96%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.54%) Cypress.io
2 5 (3.27%) Postman
3 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (32.03%) Marketing
2 40 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 29 (18.95%) Finance
4 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.84%) Retail
6 11 (7.19%) Banking
7 10 (6.54%) Legal
7 10 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.23%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.58%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.92%) Automotive
10 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.92%) International Banking
10 6 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (3.27%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (3.27%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.61%) Local Government
13 3 (1.96%) French Language
13 3 (1.96%) German Language
Job Titles
1 22 (14.38%) Analyst
1 22 (14.38%) Senior
2 11 (7.19%) Developer
3 10 (6.54%) Designer
3 10 (6.54%) JavaScript Engineer
4 9 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.23%) Architect
5 8 (5.23%) Business Analyst
6 6 (3.92%) Coordinator
7 5 (3.27%) UX Designer
8 4 (2.61%) Account Manager
8 4 (2.61%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (2.61%) Marketing Manager
8 4 (2.61%) Regulatory Business Analyst
8 4 (2.61%) Senior Designer
8 4 (2.61%) Service Analyst
8 4 (2.61%) Support Officer
8 4 (2.61%) Technical Coordinator
8 4 (2.61%) UI Designer
8 4 (2.61%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.11%) Node.js
2 13 (8.50%) Redux
3 12 (7.84%) HTML
4 11 (7.19%) CSS
4 11 (7.19%) Express.js
5 10 (6.54%) Jest
6 6 (3.92%) jQuery
7 5 (3.27%) DOM
7 5 (3.27%) JSON
7 5 (3.27%) React
7 5 (3.27%) Swagger
8 4 (2.61%) ATL
9 3 (1.96%) RESTful
10 2 (1.31%) Laravel
10 2 (1.31%) WebGL
11 1 (0.65%) koa
11 1 (0.65%) Sass
11 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
11 1 (0.65%) Vue
11 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.58%) Social Media
3 6 (3.92%) Digital Media
3 6 (3.92%) Marketing Technology
3 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.61%) Animation
4 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.96%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.96%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.31%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.31%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.65%) iPhone
7 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.19%) Windows
2 3 (1.96%) Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.31%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Solaris
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (15.03%) Agile
2 21 (13.73%) Analytics
3 19 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (8.50%) Project Management
5 11 (7.19%) Computer Science
5 11 (7.19%) Kanban
6 10 (6.54%) Clean Code
6 10 (6.54%) Pair Programming
6 10 (6.54%) Software Architecture
6 10 (6.54%) TDD
7 9 (5.88%) ITIL
8 8 (5.23%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (5.23%) User Experience
9 7 (4.58%) Budget Management
9 7 (4.58%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (4.58%) Process Improvement
9 7 (4.58%) Programme Management
9 7 (4.58%) Regulatory Compliance
9 7 (4.58%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (4.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.99%) JavaScript
2 15 (9.80%) Python
3 12 (7.84%) TypeScript
4 11 (7.19%) SQL
5 5 (3.27%) PHP
6 3 (1.96%) R
7 2 (1.31%) Bash
7 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.65%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Groovy
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (20.26%) Degree
2 8 (5.23%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.58%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.61%) A+ Certification
4 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.61%) HNC
4 4 (2.61%) HND
4 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.96%) PhD
6 2 (1.31%) MBA
6 2 (1.31%) MCITP
6 2 (1.31%) MCSE
6 2 (1.31%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.65%) CCNA
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.27%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.27%) QA
2 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.96%) PMO
3 3 (1.96%) SLA
4 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.31%) NIST
4 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (1.31%) Ansible
1 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.31%) SCCM
1 2 (1.31%) Terraform
2 1 (0.65%) Endace
2 1 (0.65%) Grafana
2 1 (0.65%) Istio
2 1 (0.65%) Rancher
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.65%) SCOM
2 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.15%) Adobe
3 12 (7.84%) Google
4 5 (3.27%) Ensighten
4 5 (3.27%) Monetate
4 5 (3.27%) Omniture
4 5 (3.27%) Optimizely
4 5 (3.27%) Tealium
5 3 (1.96%) Apple
5 3 (1.96%) Rapid7
5 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.96%) Twitter
5 3 (1.96%) VMware
6 2 (1.31%) Cisco
6 2 (1.31%) IBM
6 2 (1.31%) iManage
6 2 (1.31%) Juniper
6 2 (1.31%) Marketo
6 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.31%) Sophos