Marketing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Marketing
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 76 71
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 +30
Contract jobs citing Marketing 51 50 64
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.13% 2.49% 2.60%
As % of the General category 3.64% 3.54% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 42
10th Percentile £213 £290 £200
25th Percentile £272 £363 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £389
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +22.19% -25.78%
75th Percentile £459 £538 £581
90th Percentile £603 £628 £790
London median daily rate £428 £450 £460
% change year-on-year -4.89% -2.17% -10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £38.58 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £46.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -18.48% +18.71% +1.97%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,402 1,413 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 58.66% 70.44% 65.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 919 1,156
10th Percentile £356 £330 £331
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £574 £575
% change year-on-year -8.54% -0.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 16
10th Percentile £18.75 £23.60 £20.07
25th Percentile £19.76 £26.45 £21.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £25.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +20.25% -26.34%
75th Percentile £42.65 £50.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.25 £65.00
London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.45% +15.00% -7.69%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Marketing job vacancy trend in Central London

Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Marketing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Marketing

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing in Central London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in Central London

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Marketing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Marketing

Marketing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
City of London -3 47 £400 -17.10% 260
West End of London +3 1 £210 - 13
Marketing
London

Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (7.84%) CMS
2 2 (3.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.96%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.96%) Magento
2 1 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.92%) Adobe Analytics
1 2 (3.92%) AWS
1 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (3.92%) Contentsquare
1 2 (3.92%) Google Docs
1 2 (3.92%) SaaS
1 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (1.96%) Azure
2 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (1.96%) Figma
2 1 (1.96%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) SMS
2 1 (1.96%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.96%) MySQL
2 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Redis
2 1 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) PHPUnit
General
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Retail
3 11 (21.57%) Finance
4 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Advertising
6 4 (7.84%) Law
6 4 (7.84%) Legal
6 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.88%) Banking
7 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.92%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Military
9 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Senior
2 5 (9.80%) Product Manager
2 5 (9.80%) Senior Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Analyst
3 4 (7.84%) Business Development Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Business Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Development Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Lead
3 4 (7.84%) Senior Business Development Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Senior Business Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Senior Development Manager
4 3 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Marketing Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Marketing Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Operations Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) HTML
2 2 (3.92%) CSS
3 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.96%) jQuery
3 1 (1.96%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.96%) Middleware
3 1 (1.96%) PySpark
3 1 (1.96%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (9.80%) Social Media
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Equities
4 2 (3.92%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) FMCG
5 1 (1.96%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.96%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Analytics
2 11 (21.57%) AI
3 10 (19.61%) Agile
4 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.69%) CRM
5 8 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (13.73%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (11.76%) Business Case
7 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.76%) Personalization
7 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
8 5 (9.80%) Data Engineering
8 5 (9.80%) Data Science
8 5 (9.80%) Machine Learning
9 4 (7.84%) Business Development
9 4 (7.84%) Content Management
9 4 (7.84%) Data Governance
9 4 (7.84%) Data Privacy
9 4 (7.84%) Product Management
9 4 (7.84%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.96%) Java
3 1 (1.96%) PHP
3 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) MBA
4 1 (1.96%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) PMO
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
1 1 (1.96%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Google
2 5 (9.80%) Adobe
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) Apple
5 2 (3.92%) SimCorp
5 2 (3.92%) Vermilion
5 2 (3.92%) YouTube
6 1 (1.96%) Ahrefs
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.96%) Instagram
6 1 (1.96%) Marketo
6 1 (1.96%) Pinterest
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.96%) Snapchat
6 1 (1.96%) TikTok
6 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media