Marketing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Marketing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 43 52
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing Marketing 11 25 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.50% 3.63% 1.81%
As % of the General category 2.44% 5.51% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £123 £238 £215
25th Percentile £237 £323 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% -10.23%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £526
90th Percentile £638 £573 £553
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.75% +5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.88 - -
25th Percentile £17.44 - -
Median hourly rate £18.75 - -
75th Percentile £19.94 - -
90th Percentile £20.43 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 - £23.35

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 451 454 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.61% 65.89% 51.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 307 261
10th Percentile £200 £200 £258
25th Percentile £364 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £493
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +4.06% +3.68%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £600
90th Percentile £644 £738 £690
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.54% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 12
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.70 £12.58
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.88 £13.91
Median hourly rate £22.01 £30.23 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +97.42% +10.34%
75th Percentile £24.29 £51.88 £49.38
90th Percentile £28.00 £56.65 £67.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £23.82 £18.00
% change year-on-year -7.64% +32.33% +2.16%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Marketing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Marketing

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in Birmingham

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Marketing

Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Drupal
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Asana
1 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Electronics
3 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Publishing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Pega Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Pega Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Technician
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Technician
3 2 (18.18%) Installation Technician
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Support Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Web Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Web Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Web Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
1 3 (27.27%) Taxonomies
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) AI
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Data Science
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Personalization
3 3 (27.27%) Predictive Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Programme Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Pega
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) HubSpot
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore