Advertising Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Advertising
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 83 103
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 +24
Contract jobs citing Advertising 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.17% 0.092% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.30% 0.15% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £436 £268 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £285 £400
Median % change year-on-year +73.68% -28.75% -42.86%
75th Percentile £518 £303 £450
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £435 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +16.00% -6.25% -26.94%

All General Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 999 653 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.12% 60.24% 61.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 308 554
10th Percentile £185 £249 £209
25th Percentile £281 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £686 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 98 335
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.79 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £26.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.84% +33.75% +0.96%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.69 £53.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £22.58 £30.21 £25.90
% change year-on-year -25.27% +16.66% -0.40%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Advertising job vacancy trend in the East of England

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Advertising.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Advertising

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Advertising.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Advertising

Advertising
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £495 - 3
Norfolk - 1 £400 - 2
Advertising
England

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Network Services Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (66.67%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe