Marketing Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Marketing
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 50 59
Rank change year-on-year -23 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Marketing 9 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.76% 2.48% 1.19%
As % of the General category 1.58% 4.10% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 1
10th Percentile - £359 -
25th Percentile £531 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £447 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% +11.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £544 £450 £450
90th Percentile - £528 -
England median daily rate £450 £471 £498
% change year-on-year -4.51% -5.28% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate - £20.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +51.85% -
75th Percentile - £20.75 £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £34.83 £32.31
% change year-on-year +1.94% +7.78% -0.58%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 569 463 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.02% 60.52% 52.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 316 266
10th Percentile £225 £213 £200
25th Percentile £394 £324 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £401 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.69% -9.89% -6.32%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £550
90th Percentile £675 £575 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 36 40
10th Percentile £12.80 £15.25 £12.67
25th Percentile £13.98 £19.81 £13.52
Median hourly rate £18.75 £24.75 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +36.29% -57.29%
75th Percentile £30.19 £25.15 £44.67
90th Percentile £56.78 £37.99 £52.01
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Marketing job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Marketing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Marketing

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Marketing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Marketing

Marketing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Nottinghamshire -19 5 - - 22
Northamptonshire +4 2 - - 17
Leicestershire -8 1 - - 13
Lincolnshire - 1 £538 - 2
Marketing
England

Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (11.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (44.44%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) HR Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Project Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Transformation Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Creative Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
2 4 (44.44%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) Web Design
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Order Management
4 1 (11.11%) PLM
4 1 (11.11%) Secure Coding
4 1 (11.11%) Storytelling
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud