Digital Marketing Job Trends

Digital Marketing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Digital Marketing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 237 334
Rank change year-on-year -25 +97 +69
Permanent jobs citing Digital Marketing 668 636 845
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.44% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.55% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 441 308 495
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £49,140 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +22.85% -20.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -22.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Marketing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%

Digital Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Digital Marketing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Digital Marketing job vacancy trend in the UK

Digital Marketing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Marketing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 589 £39,500 -12.22% 147
UK excluding London +8 486 £37,500 - 118
Work from Home -45 206 £40,000 -18.60% 73
North of England +57 147 £35,000 -12.50% 42
London -97 134 £55,000 -15.38% 49
South East -34 108 £50,000 +51.52% 31
East of England +22 85 £35,000 +7.69% 13
North West +49 77 £40,000 +1.27% 21
South West -22 57 £40,000 -23.81% 8
Midlands -12 52 £42,500 +9.68% 24
Yorkshire -11 40 £55,000 -8.03% 15
North East -15 30 £35,000 -5.02% 7
East Midlands -15 29 £42,500 -2.30% 11
Northern Ireland - 25 £45,000 - 3
West Midlands -20 23 £37,500 - 13
Scotland -3 6 £39,500 -21.00% 2
Wales -43 6 £40,000 -5.88% 1

Digital Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 64 (9.58%) CMS
2 45 (6.74%) WordPress
3 15 (2.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.30%) Drupal
5 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 68 (10.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.40%) Photoshop
4 14 (2.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
7 6 (0.90%) InDesign
7 6 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.15%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 39 (5.84%) Workfront
2 35 (5.24%) Adobe Campaign
3 16 (2.40%) Shopify
4 9 (1.35%) Magento
5 5 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.30%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 70 (10.48%) Google Analytics
2 53 (7.93%) Google Ads
2 53 (7.93%) iPaaS
3 51 (7.63%) SaaS
4 26 (3.89%) Canva
5 20 (2.99%) Google Tag Manager
6 13 (1.95%) Sprout Social
7 12 (1.80%) Google Data Studio
8 11 (1.65%) Asana
9 10 (1.50%) Google Sheets
10 7 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 7 (1.05%) MailChimp
11 6 (0.90%) Figma
11 6 (0.90%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.75%) Meta Ads
13 3 (0.45%) AWS
13 3 (0.45%) Azure
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 88 (13.17%) Broadband
2 7 (1.05%) SMS
3 3 (0.45%) Firewall
3 3 (0.45%) VPN
4 2 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.15%) DHCP
5 1 (0.15%) LAN
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.48%) Metadata
2 20 (2.99%) Looker
3 7 (1.05%) Tableau
4 6 (0.90%) Power BI
5 2 (0.30%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Git
1 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.30%) JIRA
3 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.15%) GCC
3 1 (0.15%) gulp
3 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 668 (100.00%) Marketing
2 135 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 82 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.48%) Advertising
5 57 (8.53%) Finance
6 37 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (4.94%) Retail
8 20 (2.99%) Brand Awareness
8 20 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 19 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 16 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.25%) Electronics
13 10 (1.50%) Games
13 10 (1.50%) Multimedia
14 9 (1.35%) Legal
15 8 (1.20%) Law
16 7 (1.05%) Automotive
16 7 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 107 (16.02%) Marketing Executive
2 89 (13.32%) Digital Executive
3 87 (13.02%) Digital Marketing Executive
4 82 (12.28%) Marketing Manager
5 57 (8.53%) Senior
6 48 (7.19%) Digital Marketing Manager
6 48 (7.19%) Product Owner
7 41 (6.14%) Campaign Manager
8 38 (5.69%) Development Manager
9 34 (5.09%) Business Manager
10 33 (4.94%) Business Development Manager
10 33 (4.94%) Product Manager
11 22 (3.29%) Senior Manager
12 21 (3.14%) Lead
12 21 (3.14%) Sales Executive
13 20 (2.99%) Sales Manager
13 20 (2.99%) Trainee
14 16 (2.40%) Senior Campaign Manager
15 15 (2.25%) Coordinator
16 13 (1.95%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.09%) HTML
2 31 (4.64%) CSS
3 3 (0.45%) Framer.js
4 2 (0.30%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.30%) Flask
4 2 (0.30%) RESTful
4 2 (0.30%) SAP CAF
5 1 (0.15%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (0.15%) EDI
5 1 (0.15%) jQuery
5 1 (0.15%) Laravel
5 1 (0.15%) REST
5 1 (0.15%) Sass
5 1 (0.15%) Web Services
5 1 (0.15%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 188 (28.14%) Social Media
2 113 (16.92%) Marketing Technology
3 97 (14.52%) Product Ownership
4 88 (13.17%) Over-the-Top Content
5 33 (4.94%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.19%) Web Conferencing
7 24 (3.59%) Blog
8 22 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.99%) Algorithms
10 19 (2.84%) Driving Licence
11 18 (2.69%) Video Editing
12 14 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.65%) NHS
13 11 (1.65%) Podcast
14 8 (1.20%) Graphic Design
14 8 (1.20%) Photography
15 5 (0.75%) IoT
16 3 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
16 3 (0.45%) Life Science
17 2 (0.30%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (32.04%) Analytics
2 156 (23.35%) SEO
3 139 (20.81%) B2B
4 137 (20.51%) Decision-Making
5 127 (19.01%) Customer Experience
6 113 (16.92%) Roadmaps
7 104 (15.57%) Personalization
8 94 (14.07%) Product Vision
9 91 (13.62%) User Stories
10 90 (13.47%) Product Backlog
11 88 (13.17%) Ideation Sessions
11 88 (13.17%) Product Requirements
11 88 (13.17%) Sprint Planning
12 77 (11.53%) AI
13 72 (10.78%) Agile
14 69 (10.33%) B2B Marketing
15 66 (9.88%) Marketing Strategy
16 65 (9.73%) Copywriting
17 63 (9.43%) CRM
18 62 (9.28%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 14 (2.10%) SQL
2 10 (1.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (1.20%) PHP
4 5 (0.75%) Python
5 1 (0.15%) Bash
5 1 (0.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 55 (8.23%) Degree
2 14 (2.10%) ACCA
3 10 (1.50%) CIMA
4 5 (0.75%) DBS Check
4 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.60%) Postgraduate
6 3 (0.45%) CISSP
6 3 (0.45%) MBA
7 2 (0.30%) CISM
7 2 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.15%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.15%) PMP
8 1 (0.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.49%) GDPR
2 19 (2.84%) QA
3 18 (2.69%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.60%) IFRS
5 4 (0.60%) PERC
6 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.30%) GRC
7 2 (0.30%) NIST
7 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (0.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 139 (20.81%) Google
2 134 (20.06%) Adobe
3 44 (6.59%) Microsoft
4 24 (3.59%) HubSpot
5 16 (2.40%) Instagram
6 15 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.25%) Screaming Frog
7 13 (1.95%) Hootsuite
8 12 (1.80%) SAP
9 11 (1.65%) Wrike
10 10 (1.50%) Braze
10 10 (1.50%) Pardot
11 8 (1.20%) Ahrefs
11 8 (1.20%) YouTube
12 5 (0.75%) Marketo
12 5 (0.75%) Pinterest
12 5 (0.75%) TikTok
13 4 (0.60%) Apple
14 3 (0.45%) Facebook
14 3 (0.45%) Hotjar