Marketing Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Marketing
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 40 61
Rank change year-on-year -64 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing Marketing 18 59 64
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.98% 5.02% 3.23%
As % of the General category 1.95% 7.96% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 30 19
10th Percentile £370 £519 £200
25th Percentile £400 £588 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +36.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £425 £700 £513
90th Percentile £456 - £525
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £413
% change year-on-year +3.90% +16.67% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.50
25th Percentile £19.44 - £59.38
Median hourly rate £20.01 - £65.00
75th Percentile £20.58 - £69.47
90th Percentile - - £69.89
South East median hourly rate £21.01 £22.90 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.29% -16.72% -54.17%

All General Skills
Berkshire

Marketing falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 923 741 1,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 50.38% 63.01% 56.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 440 552
10th Percentile £306 £300 £205
25th Percentile £400 £409 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +0.10% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £593
90th Percentile £668 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 21 86
10th Percentile £21.99 £19.91 £22.38
25th Percentile £76.69 £30.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 £57.50 £58.65
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% -1.96% +6.64%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £69.82
90th Percentile £97.50 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £49.00 £24.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year +102.65% -46.27% -5.26%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Marketing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Marketing job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Marketing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Marketing

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in Berkshire

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Marketing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Marketing

Marketing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -58 10 £475 -26.92% 38
Bracknell -1 3 £400 +18.52% 6
Wokingham - 2 £425 - 1
Slough +11 1 - - 14
Marketing
South East

Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (5.56%) Blender
2 1 (5.56%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) Canva
2 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (5.56%) n8n
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Broadband
1 1 (5.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Arabic Language
5 1 (5.56%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (5.56%) Dutch Language
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) French Language
5 1 (5.56%) German Language
5 1 (5.56%) Italian Language
5 1 (5.56%) Japanese Language
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Polish Language
5 1 (5.56%) Portuguese Language
5 1 (5.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Architect
1 3 (16.67%) Consultant
1 3 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Campaign Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing Executive
2 2 (11.11%) Presales Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Presales Technical Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Presales Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Braze Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (5.56%) Migration Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Motion Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Copywriter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (5.56%) iOS SDK
2 1 (5.56%) Jest
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Sass
2 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Animation
3 1 (5.56%) Blog
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.56%) EPoS
3 1 (5.56%) Graphic Design
3 1 (5.56%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) AI
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Campaign Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.11%) Marketing Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Multichannel Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) Presales
5 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) HubSpot
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Braze
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Instagram
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) TikTok