Advertising Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Advertising
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Advertising 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.44% - 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.68% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £453 - -
90th Percentile £459 - -
North West median daily rate £425 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -34.69% +26.83% +13.89%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Advertising 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 440 301 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 64.99% 69.52% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 164 231
10th Percentile £311 £314 £265
25th Percentile £358 £391 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £550
90th Percentile £652 £688 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 33 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £16.54
25th Percentile £19.13 £24.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.18 £32.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -28.69% +37.65% +35.34%
75th Percentile £39.56 £77.50 £38.63
90th Percentile £64.50 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £29.90 £17.72
% change year-on-year +18.73% +68.74% -31.85%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Advertising job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Advertising.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Advertising

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Advertising.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Advertising

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Network Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) e-Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler