Advertising Contracts in England

Advertising
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 390 373
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 +145
Contract jobs citing Advertising 95 152 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.41% 0.61%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.70% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 95 241
10th Percentile £250 £200 £263
25th Percentile £313 £260 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -23.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £663
90th Percentile £616 £600 £713
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £520
% change year-on-year +6.25% -23.08% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 10
10th Percentile £26.07 £6.57 £33.23
25th Percentile £27.54 £15.04 £35.39
Median hourly rate £35.75 £41.08 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -9.22% +13.13%
75th Percentile £48.81 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.84 £63.34 £56.53
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £41.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year -12.97% -4.47% +7.50%

All General Skills
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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Advertising in England

Advertising
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advertising in England.

Daily rate trend for Advertising in England

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in England

Advertising
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advertising in England.

Hourly rate trend for Advertising in England

Advertising
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Advertising in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in England

Advertising
Contract 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 Advertising within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +7 73 £338 -20.59% 989
Midlands +22 9 £435 +67.31% 74
West Midlands +18 8 £435 +70.59% 37
South East +38 6 £500 +42.86% 194
South West +42 5 £575 +66.67% 78
North West +15 2 £650 +73.33% 85
North of England +12 2 £650 +36.84% 146
East Midlands +6 1 £475 -5.00% 32
Advertising
UK

Advertising
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 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.16%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.11%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (2.11%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.05%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (1.05%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.11%) Shopify
3 1 (1.05%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.32%) Azure
1 6 (6.32%) GCP
2 4 (4.21%) AWS
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.11%) BigCommerce
3 2 (2.11%) Google Ads
3 2 (2.11%) OneDrive
3 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
3 2 (2.11%) Smartsheet
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon Ads
4 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.05%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.05%) ClickUp
4 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.05%) Slack
4 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) Firewall
2 5 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (3.16%) Wireless
4 2 (2.11%) BGP
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (2.11%) DMVPN
4 2 (2.11%) OSPF
4 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.11%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.05%) DNS
5 1 (1.05%) HTTP
5 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.11%) Power BI
3 1 (1.05%) Big Data
3 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.05%) Metadata
3 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.05%) MySQL
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Git
1 2 (2.11%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Maven
General
1 37 (38.95%) Marketing
2 24 (25.26%) Finance
3 16 (16.84%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Automotive
6 4 (4.21%) Music Industry
6 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Retail
7 3 (3.16%) Billing
8 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Military
8 2 (2.11%) Public Speaking
8 2 (2.11%) Publishing
9 1 (1.05%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.05%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (14.74%) Account Manager
2 9 (9.47%) Analyst
3 8 (8.42%) Senior
3 8 (8.42%) Support Engineer
4 7 (7.37%) Developer
4 7 (7.37%) Digital Account Manager
5 6 (6.32%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Consultant
6 5 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Lead
6 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Client Services Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Development Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Sales Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Development Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Help Desk Operator
8 3 (3.16%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.42%) React
2 3 (3.16%) RESTful
3 2 (2.11%) CSS
3 2 (2.11%) HTML
3 2 (2.11%) VML
4 1 (1.05%) .NET
4 1 (1.05%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.05%) ATL
4 1 (1.05%) Jest
4 1 (1.05%) jQuery
4 1 (1.05%) Kafka
4 1 (1.05%) NumPy
4 1 (1.05%) OAuth
4 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.05%) OpenID
4 1 (1.05%) Pandas
4 1 (1.05%) PySpark
4 1 (1.05%) Redux
4 1 (1.05%) Sass
4 1 (1.05%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Social Media
2 9 (9.47%) Digital Media
3 7 (7.37%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.16%) NHS
4 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.05%) Animation
6 1 (1.05%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.05%) Tandem
6 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.05%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Unix
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.05%) Project Management
2 18 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (16.84%) Campaign Management
4 16 (16.84%) Digital Marketing
5 15 (15.79%) Agile
5 15 (15.79%) Analytics
6 11 (11.58%) Ad Operations
7 10 (10.53%) Programmatic Advertising
8 8 (8.42%) API Development
8 8 (8.42%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (8.42%) CRM
8 8 (8.42%) Data Protection
8 8 (8.42%) Decision-Making
8 8 (8.42%) Digital Strategy
8 8 (8.42%) Project Delivery
9 7 (7.37%) User Experience
10 6 (6.32%) Customer Retention
10 6 (6.32%) Storytelling
10 6 (6.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.95%) Python
2 10 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 8 (8.42%) PHP
4 6 (6.32%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) C++
5 2 (2.11%) Java
5 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.05%) C#
6 1 (1.05%) Go
6 1 (1.05%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.05%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) Degree
3 3 (3.16%) CCNP
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.16%) PMP
4 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.11%) GCIA
5 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (15.79%) Google
2 11 (11.58%) Adobe
2 11 (11.58%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.26%) Cisco
4 4 (4.21%) TikTok
5 3 (3.16%) comScore
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.16%) SAP
5 3 (3.16%) Workday
6 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.11%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.11%) VMware
7 1 (1.05%) Criteo
7 1 (1.05%) Databricks
7 1 (1.05%) Ensighten
7 1 (1.05%) Instagram
7 1 (1.05%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle
7 1 (1.05%) Snow
7 1 (1.05%) Tealium