Ad Operations Contracts in England

Advertising Operations (Ad Ops)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 528 601
Rank change year-on-year +29 +73 +185
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ad Operations 17 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.015% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.018% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £318 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 £375 £225
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +66.67% -30.77%
75th Percentile £499 £388 £238
90th Percentile £550 - -
UK median daily rate £338 £375 £225
% change year-on-year -10.00% +66.67% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.39 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.15 - £22.50
75th Percentile £28.91 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.15 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - -44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,068 28,478 39,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.83% 85.75% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,969 18,416 27,246
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £754 £761
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,464 1,557 1,376
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +53.76%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -2.41% +54.56%

Ad Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ad Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ad Operations in England

Ad Operations
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ad Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ad Operations

Ad Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ad Operations in England over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ad Operations in England

Ad Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ad Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ad Operations

Ad Operations
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ad Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 22 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +27 15 £336 -10.33% 54
Ad Operations
UK

Ad Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) dbt
1 6 (35.29%) GCP
1 6 (35.29%) Vertex AI
2 1 (5.88%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) BigQuery
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) MLflow
General
1 15 (88.24%) Advertising
2 12 (70.59%) Marketing
3 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Billing
6 1 (5.88%) German Language
6 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Account Manager
1 6 (35.29%) Product Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Digital Account Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Client Services Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Ad Operations Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Marketing Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Sales Account Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Sales Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Digital Media
2 7 (41.18%) Marketing Technology
3 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (35.29%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Programmatic Advertising
2 7 (41.18%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) Personalization
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Data Science
3 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
3 6 (35.29%) MLOps
3 6 (35.29%) Order Management
3 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Predictive Analytics
3 6 (35.29%) Product Management
3 6 (35.29%) Product Requirements
3 6 (35.29%) Product Roadmap
3 6 (35.29%) Product Vision
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (35.29%) Use Case
3 6 (35.29%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Salesforce
2 5 (29.41%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) comScore
4 1 (5.88%) Criteo
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft