Ad Operations Contracts in the City of London

Advertising Operations (Ad Ops)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Ad Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ad Operations over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ad Operations 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £438
75th Percentile £538 - £444
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £525 - £438
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.39 - -
Median hourly rate £28.15 - -
75th Percentile £28.91 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Ad Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Ad Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Ad Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Ad Operations in the City of London

Ad Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ad Operations in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Ad Operations in the City of London

Ad Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Ad Operations Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Campaign Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Programmatic Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce