Advertising Contract Job Trends 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 12 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 372 369
Rank change year-on-year -34 -3 +122
Contract jobs citing Advertising 105 154 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.80% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 87 172
10th Percentile £220 £200 £213
25th Percentile £288 £261 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £355 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -21.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £513 £500 £593
90th Percentile £573 £603 £688
UK median daily rate £380 £355 £450
% change year-on-year +7.04% -21.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 20
10th Percentile £23.60 £27.19 £13.98
25th Percentile £27.04 £32.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.75 £45.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.06% +6.56% +8.28%
75th Percentile £54.00 £53.97 £53.00
90th Percentile - £63.75 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £43.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.01% +1.35% +7.59%

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 17,927 19,153 25,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.44% 58.07% 59.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,341 11,794 17,550
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 1,013 972
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £49.13 £61.30 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.80 £71.45 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% +36.36% +10.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Advertising

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in England

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Advertising

Advertising
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Advertising in England over the 6 months to 12 September 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 12 September 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 -8 85 £335 -5.63% 344
South East +5 7 £525 +90.91% 215
West Midlands -10 5 £435 +67.31% 31
Midlands -13 5 £435 +14.47% 50
South West +22 2 - - 42
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 6 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.81%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (3.81%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.86%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.90%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.95%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.95%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.95%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.95%) Sketch
5 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Shopify
2 2 (1.90%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.62%) GCP
2 6 (5.71%) dbt
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (5.71%) Vertex AI
3 5 (4.76%) Azure
4 3 (2.86%) Asana
4 3 (2.86%) AWS
4 3 (2.86%) BigCommerce
4 3 (2.86%) Figma
4 3 (2.86%) Google Ads
4 3 (2.86%) OneDrive
4 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) Facebook Ads
5 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.90%) SaaS
5 2 (1.90%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (1.90%) BGP
2 2 (1.90%) IPsec
2 2 (1.90%) Network Security
2 2 (1.90%) OSPF
2 2 (1.90%) SSL
2 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.90%) VLAN
2 2 (1.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.95%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.71%) BigQuery
3 5 (4.76%) Tableau
4 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.95%) Big Data
5 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Metadata
5 1 (0.95%) Power BI
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) MLflow
2 4 (3.81%) JIRA
3 2 (1.90%) Git
4 1 (0.95%) Babel
4 1 (0.95%) Maven
4 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 56 (53.33%) Marketing
2 32 (30.48%) Social Skills
3 18 (17.14%) Finance
4 16 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.52%) Legal
6 9 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (7.62%) Retail
8 7 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.81%) Automotive
9 4 (3.81%) French Language
9 4 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.81%) Italian Language
9 4 (3.81%) Publishing
9 4 (3.81%) Spanish Language
10 3 (2.86%) Games
10 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.90%) Billing
11 2 (1.90%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.90%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 12 (11.43%) Analyst
1 12 (11.43%) Senior
2 9 (8.57%) Product Manager
3 8 (7.62%) Marketing Manager
4 7 (6.67%) Account Manager
5 6 (5.71%) Consultant
5 6 (5.71%) Designer
6 5 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.76%) Developer
7 4 (3.81%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.86%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.86%) Sales Manager
8 3 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (2.86%) Senior Producer
8 3 (2.86%) SharePoint Consultant
9 2 (1.90%) Coordinator
9 2 (1.90%) Functional Consultant
9 2 (1.90%) Senior Developer
9 2 (1.90%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) React
2 3 (2.86%) VML
3 2 (1.90%) CSS
3 2 (1.90%) Jest
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.90%) Redux
4 1 (0.95%) ATL
4 1 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.95%) HTML
4 1 (0.95%) RESTful
4 1 (0.95%) Sass
4 1 (0.95%) Vitest
4 1 (0.95%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Digital Media
2 8 (7.62%) Social Media
3 7 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.76%) Motion Graphics
6 3 (2.86%) Animation
6 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.95%) iPad
8 1 (0.95%) Mixed Reality
8 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Android
2 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.95%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) OpenVMS
2 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (17.14%) Analytics
4 17 (16.19%) Project Management
5 15 (14.29%) Agile
5 15 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
6 14 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 14 (13.33%) CRM
7 12 (11.43%) Ad Operations
8 11 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (10.48%) Programmatic Advertising
8 11 (10.48%) Roadmaps
9 10 (9.52%) Data Science
9 10 (9.52%) Marketing Strategy
10 9 (8.57%) E-Commerce
10 9 (8.57%) Integrated Marketing
10 9 (8.57%) User Stories
11 8 (7.62%) Product Management
11 8 (7.62%) Product Marketing
11 8 (7.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.52%) SQL
2 7 (6.67%) Python
3 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.90%) PHP
4 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.95%) BrightScript
5 1 (0.95%) C#
5 1 (0.95%) Java
5 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Degree
2 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) PMP
5 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) CCNP
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.95%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) SLA
2 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.95%) GDPR
2 1 (0.95%) PMO
2 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.90%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Salesforce
2 9 (8.57%) Google
3 8 (7.62%) Adobe
3 8 (7.62%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.71%) Facebook
5 4 (3.81%) SAP
6 3 (2.86%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.90%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.90%) comScore
7 2 (1.90%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.90%) Instagram
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle
7 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.90%) Workday
8 1 (0.95%) Apple
8 1 (0.95%) Criteo
8 1 (0.95%) Marketo
8 1 (0.95%) Roku
8 1 (0.95%) Snow
8 1 (0.95%) YouTube