Marketing Contracts

Marketing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Marketing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 116 105
Rank change year-on-year +43 -11 -26
Contract jobs citing Marketing 1,212 1,319 2,282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.81% 2.23% 2.57%
As % of the General category 4.83% 3.82% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 902 1,589
10th Percentile £213 £238 £313
25th Percentile £333 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £755 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 39 45
10th Percentile £13.41 £22.07 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.67 £25.38 £27.50
Median hourly rate £34.75 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% -4.00% +25.79%
75th Percentile £47.38 £52.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £30.93
% change year-on-year -41.18% +37.43% +30.60%

All General Skills
UK

Marketing 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 25,093 34,536 49,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.14% 58.47% 56.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,826 23,949 34,580
10th Percentile £275 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £766 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,938 1,057 1,434
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +47.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -5.71%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Marketing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +31 1,113 £463 -11.90% 3,003
London +45 614 £450 -10.00% 1,380
UK excluding London +36 465 £500 -4.76% 1,681
Work from Home +44 413 £500 -2.91% 1,436
South East +9 180 £423 -0.59% 432
South West -9 83 £618 +2.92% 192
North of England +48 72 £500 - 509
East of England +35 58 £375 -33.33% 156
Midlands +1 40 £410 -21.90% 294
North West +35 39 £500 +3.09% 304
West Midlands +2 27 £475 -9.52% 164
Yorkshire +24 26 £450 -14.29% 161
Scotland +41 12 £500 -2.44% 93
Wales +26 12 £600 +108.70% 27
East Midlands +12 12 £375 -3.23% 130
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 15
North East +20 5 £533 - 46

Marketing
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 58 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 50 (4.13%) CMS
3 19 (1.57%) Confluence
4 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.66%) Drupal
7 7 (0.58%) SAS
8 3 (0.25%) Apache
8 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.25%) WordPress
9 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.17%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.083%) Liferay
10 1 (0.083%) nginx
Applications
1 55 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 55 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (3.05%) Photoshop
4 26 (2.15%) Adobe Illustrator
5 21 (1.73%) Adobe After Effects
6 17 (1.40%) Adobe Premiere
7 16 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 14 (1.16%) MS Visio
9 13 (1.07%) InDesign
10 12 (0.99%) Acrobat
11 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
12 7 (0.58%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.083%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.083%) InfoPath
14 1 (0.083%) InVision
14 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 53 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.98%) Shopify
3 15 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.99%) Adobe Campaign
5 10 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.50%) Unica
6 6 (0.50%) Workfront
7 5 (0.41%) Eloqua
8 4 (0.33%) FastStats
9 3 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.17%) Magento
10 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.17%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
10 2 (0.17%) SAP PLM
11 1 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.083%) OpenCart
11 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.083%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 145 (11.96%) Azure
2 94 (7.76%) Power Platform
3 62 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
4 58 (4.79%) AWS
5 53 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (3.30%) SaaS
7 28 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (2.31%) Google Analytics
8 26 (2.15%) Figma
9 24 (1.98%) GCP
9 24 (1.98%) PaaS
10 21 (1.73%) BigCommerce
11 15 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (1.24%) IaaS
11 15 (1.24%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.16%) Serverless
13 13 (1.07%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.32%) Firewall
2 12 (0.99%) Internet
3 11 (0.91%) FTP
3 11 (0.91%) VPN
4 10 (0.83%) Wireless
5 9 (0.74%) HTTP
6 8 (0.66%) 3G
6 8 (0.66%) 4G
6 8 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.58%) Network Security
8 6 (0.50%) 5G
8 6 (0.50%) DNS
8 6 (0.50%) Intranet
8 6 (0.50%) LAN
8 6 (0.50%) SMS
8 6 (0.50%) WAN
9 5 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.25%) InfiniBand
11 3 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.78%) Power BI
2 34 (2.81%) Metadata
3 32 (2.64%) Tableau
4 26 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 26 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.82%) Data Vault
6 15 (1.24%) Metadata Repository
7 12 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.91%) Looker
8 11 (0.91%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
9 9 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.66%) Big Data
10 8 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.50%) Ingres
12 6 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (4.29%) JIRA
2 28 (2.31%) Git
3 16 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.91%) ERwin
5 8 (0.66%) Postman
5 8 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.58%) Dreamweaver
7 6 (0.50%) git-flow
7 6 (0.50%) GitLab
7 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.41%) Maven
8 5 (0.41%) NUnit
9 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.17%) gulp
10 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.17%) webpack
11 1 (0.083%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.083%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.083%) SpecFlow
General
1 471 (38.86%) Finance
2 408 (33.66%) Social Skills
3 345 (28.47%) Telecoms
4 340 (28.05%) Manufacturing
5 335 (27.64%) Public Sector
6 327 (26.98%) Electronics
7 151 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
8 125 (10.31%) Retail
9 51 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (4.13%) Advertising
11 47 (3.88%) Legal
12 33 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.64%) German Language
14 22 (1.82%) French Language
15 21 (1.73%) Games
15 21 (1.73%) Publishing
16 19 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.57%) Law
17 16 (1.32%) Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (9.32%) Analyst
2 110 (9.08%) Architect
3 101 (8.33%) Senior
4 100 (8.25%) Lead
5 91 (7.51%) Developer
6 88 (7.26%) Project Manager
7 83 (6.85%) Consultant
8 60 (4.95%) Designer
9 49 (4.04%) Marketing Manager
10 47 (3.88%) Support Engineer
11 42 (3.47%) Business Analyst
12 40 (3.30%) Data Architect
13 33 (2.72%) Salesforce Developer
14 31 (2.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 29 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (1.98%) Senior Manager
18 22 (1.82%) Desktop Engineer
18 22 (1.82%) Desktop Support
18 22 (1.82%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.94%) HTML
2 71 (5.86%) CSS
3 32 (2.64%) React
4 28 (2.31%) Node.js
5 21 (1.73%) .NET
6 18 (1.49%) Web Services
7 17 (1.40%) JSON
7 17 (1.40%) VML
8 16 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (1.16%) jQuery
10 13 (1.07%) HTML5
10 13 (1.07%) Sass
10 13 (1.07%) XML
11 12 (0.99%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.91%) NestJS
12 11 (0.91%) REST
13 10 (0.83%) Express.js
13 10 (0.83%) PySpark
13 10 (0.83%) RESTful
14 9 (0.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 69 (5.69%) Social Media
2 54 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 51 (4.21%) NHS
4 37 (3.05%) Marketing Technology
5 35 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
7 32 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 23 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.73%) Reference Data
10 19 (1.57%) FMCG
11 18 (1.49%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.32%) Animation
12 16 (1.32%) Graphic Design
13 15 (1.24%) Digital Media
13 15 (1.24%) Photography
14 14 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (0.99%) Blog
16 12 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (6.60%) Windows
2 30 (2.48%) Linux
3 27 (2.23%) Windows 10
4 16 (1.32%) Unix
5 8 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.50%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.25%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.083%) Android
9 1 (0.083%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.083%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (34.41%) Digital Marketing
2 381 (31.44%) Business Intelligence
3 338 (27.89%) Programme Management
4 202 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 186 (15.35%) Agile
6 171 (14.11%) Project Management
7 154 (12.71%) CRM
8 147 (12.13%) Analytics
9 120 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 95 (7.84%) User Experience
11 88 (7.26%) Data Modelling
12 81 (6.68%) Customer Experience
13 79 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (6.52%) Customer Service
14 78 (6.44%) Roadmaps
15 72 (5.94%) B2B
16 69 (5.69%) E-Commerce
17 65 (5.36%) Decision-Making
18 62 (5.12%) DevOps
19 59 (4.87%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (9.57%) SQL
2 89 (7.34%) JavaScript
3 82 (6.77%) Python
4 39 (3.22%) TypeScript
5 25 (2.06%) Java
6 23 (1.90%) C#
7 22 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.16%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.16%) R
9 8 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.41%) Bash
10 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.41%) Go
10 5 (0.41%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.41%) PHP
10 5 (0.41%) Scala
11 4 (0.33%) SOQL
12 2 (0.17%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.083%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 193 (15.92%) Degree
2 128 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 91 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.80%) Master's Degree
5 40 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.15%) PMP
7 21 (1.73%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.83%) MBA
11 10 (0.83%) PhD
12 9 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.66%) CISSP
14 7 (0.58%) CCNA
14 7 (0.58%) MCSE
15 6 (0.50%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.50%) ISEB
16 5 (0.41%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.04%) GDPR
2 41 (3.38%) QA
3 36 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.39%) PMO
5 26 (2.15%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.90%) SLA
7 13 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.66%) HL7
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.41%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.41%) RMADS
10 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.33%) NIST
11 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.083%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.083%) P3O
System Software
1 33 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.91%) Docker
3 8 (0.66%) NFS
3 8 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.33%) Firmware
5 4 (0.33%) HDFS
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.57%) Terraform
2 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.58%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.50%) Puppet
5 5 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.33%) Ansible
6 4 (0.33%) CA Service Virtualization
7 3 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.17%) Nessus
8 2 (0.17%) SCCM
8 2 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.083%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.083%) AppManager
9 1 (0.083%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.083%) Salt
9 1 (0.083%) SCOM
9 1 (0.083%) systemd
9 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 354 (29.21%) SAP
2 213 (17.57%) Microsoft
3 116 (9.57%) Salesforce
4 105 (8.66%) Adobe
5 50 (4.13%) Google
6 39 (3.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 25 (2.06%) Dell
8 21 (1.73%) Cisco
8 21 (1.73%) Sitecore
8 21 (1.73%) Sparx
9 19 (1.57%) Facebook
10 18 (1.49%) Databricks
10 18 (1.49%) Marketo
11 17 (1.40%) Pardot
12 15 (1.24%) Optimizely
13 13 (1.07%) Instagram
13 13 (1.07%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.07%) Twitter
14 12 (0.99%) Intel
14 12 (0.99%) Oracle