Digital Marketing Contract Job Trends in England

Digital Marketing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Digital Marketing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 183 226
Rank change year-on-year -125 +43 +76
Contract jobs citing Digital Marketing 267 387 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.44% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.61% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 224 270
10th Percentile £154 £214 £200
25th Percentile £255 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -6.82% +2.80%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £400 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -21.95% -6.82% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 9 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £18.20 £16.80
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £23.79 £28.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +1.82% -29.49%
75th Percentile £24.50 £32.75 £32.50
90th Percentile £40.50 £38.35 £38.31
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £27.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% -29.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Digital Marketing 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,213 24,003 32,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.19% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,027 14,736 21,710
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,750 779 1,598
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.47 £75.00 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%

Digital Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Digital Marketing job vacancy trend in England

Digital Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Marketing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Marketing in England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Marketing in England

Digital Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Marketing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Marketing in England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Digital Marketing in England

Digital Marketing
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 Digital Marketing within the England region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
London -24 122 £400 +4.58% 48
South West -41 46 £550 -2.65% 24
South East -79 33 £400 -27.27% 81
North of England -58 25 £175 -57.83% 66
East of England -9 19 £308 -35.94% 41
Midlands -40 16 £158 -52.63% 28
East Midlands -15 15 £158 -10.00% 17
North West -23 12 £175 -68.89% 29
Yorkshire -44 7 £565 +2.73% 25
North East -16 6 £175 -51.72% 12
West Midlands -51 1 - - 11
Digital Marketing
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Digital Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.49%) CMS
2 6 (2.25%) WordPress
3 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) Drupal
Applications
1 28 (10.49%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.50%) Trello
5 3 (1.12%) Notion
5 3 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Shopify
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.37%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (8.24%) Azure
3 20 (7.49%) AWS
4 19 (7.12%) SaaS
5 16 (5.99%) GCP
6 11 (4.12%) Google Analytics
7 9 (3.37%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.25%) Asana
9 5 (1.87%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.50%) Figma
10 4 (1.50%) GitHub
10 4 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.50%) Wix.com
11 3 (1.12%) Canva
11 3 (1.12%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.12%) Zapier
12 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.75%) Slack
12 2 (0.75%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.61%) Wireless
2 5 (1.87%) VPN
3 4 (1.50%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.12%) BGP
4 3 (1.12%) DNS
4 3 (1.12%) Firewall
4 3 (1.12%) Junos
4 3 (1.12%) Network Security
4 3 (1.12%) OSPF
5 2 (0.75%) DHCP
5 2 (0.75%) Intranet
5 2 (0.75%) LAN
5 2 (0.75%) VLAN
5 2 (0.75%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.37%) HTTP
6 1 (0.37%) Internet
6 1 (0.37%) NGN
6 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.62%) Power BI
2 5 (1.87%) Looker
3 4 (1.50%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (1.12%) MySQL
4 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.12%) Tableau
5 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (3.37%) JIRA
2 5 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.12%) JUnit
3 3 (1.12%) Storybook
4 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.37%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.37%) GoCD
4 1 (0.37%) Postman
4 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.37%) Vite
4 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 267 (100.00%) Marketing
2 186 (69.66%) Finance
3 181 (67.79%) Electronics
4 177 (66.29%) Public Sector
4 177 (66.29%) Telecoms
5 176 (65.92%) Manufacturing
6 98 (36.70%) Social Skills
7 37 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.49%) German Language
10 11 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (3.75%) Advertising
12 9 (3.37%) Italian Language
12 9 (3.37%) Legal
13 8 (3.00%) Brand Awareness
14 4 (1.50%) Law
14 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.12%) Digital Health
15 3 (1.12%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.75%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 35 (13.11%) IT Support
2 27 (10.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 27 (10.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 27 (10.11%) Desktop Support
2 27 (10.11%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 23 (8.61%) Marketing Manager
4 20 (7.49%) Migration Engineer
5 19 (7.12%) IT Engineer
6 18 (6.74%) Analyst
7 17 (6.37%) Consultant
8 16 (5.99%) Architect
8 16 (5.99%) Coordinator
8 16 (5.99%) Windows Engineer
9 14 (5.24%) Senior
9 14 (5.24%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.49%) Lead
10 12 (4.49%) Support Technician
11 11 (4.12%) Digital Marketing Manager
11 11 (4.12%) Migration Technician
12 10 (3.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.00%) SailPoint
2 7 (2.62%) React
3 5 (1.87%) CSS
3 5 (1.87%) HTML
4 4 (1.50%) REST
5 3 (1.12%) RESTful
5 3 (1.12%) Spring
5 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.12%) Vitest
6 2 (0.75%) .NET
6 2 (0.75%) LDAP
6 2 (0.75%) NumPy
6 2 (0.75%) Pandas
6 2 (0.75%) PySpark
6 2 (0.75%) XML
7 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.37%) HTML5
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth
7 1 (0.37%) React Native
7 1 (0.37%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.36%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.62%) NHS
4 13 (4.87%) Marketing Technology
5 11 (4.12%) Web Conferencing
6 7 (2.62%) CMDB
6 7 (2.62%) Social Media
7 6 (2.25%) Digital Media
8 5 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.87%) Blog
8 5 (1.87%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.50%) PMI
9 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.12%) Midjourney
10 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.99%) Mac OS
2 23 (8.61%) Android
3 16 (5.99%) Windows 10
4 12 (4.49%) Windows
5 3 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.75%) Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (68.54%) Business Intelligence
2 181 (67.79%) Programme Management
3 49 (18.35%) Migration
4 42 (15.73%) Workflow
5 38 (14.23%) Analytics
6 34 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (12.36%) Agile
8 31 (11.61%) Workflow Management
9 27 (10.11%) CRM
9 27 (10.11%) Logistics
10 26 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (8.99%) AI
11 24 (8.99%) Marketing Strategy
11 24 (8.99%) Project Management
12 22 (8.24%) B2B
13 20 (7.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (7.12%) User Experience
15 16 (5.99%) CI/CD
16 15 (5.62%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.75%) PowerShell
1 10 (3.75%) Python
2 9 (3.37%) Java
3 8 (3.00%) SQL
4 7 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.87%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.12%) BeanShell
7 2 (0.75%) C
7 2 (0.75%) C#
7 2 (0.75%) C++
7 2 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 119 (44.57%) Security Cleared
2 111 (41.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.62%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.49%) Degree
5 6 (2.25%) CISSP
5 6 (2.25%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
6 3 (1.12%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.12%) JNCIP
6 3 (1.12%) JNCIS
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.75%) CLAS
7 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.75%) GPEN
7 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.12%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.87%) GDPR
3 11 (4.12%) PMO
4 7 (2.62%) JSP 440
4 7 (2.62%) QA
5 6 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.25%) NCSC
5 6 (2.25%) RMADS
6 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.87%) PERC
7 4 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.12%) NIST
8 3 (1.12%) WCAG
9 2 (0.75%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.75%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.75%) SLA
10 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.37%) FISMA
10 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.12%) vRealize
2 2 (0.75%) SCCM
2 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.37%) FreeIPA
3 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 177 (66.29%) SAP
2 38 (14.23%) Microsoft
3 36 (13.48%) Cisco
4 24 (8.99%) Apple
4 24 (8.99%) Salesforce
5 23 (8.61%) Dell
5 23 (8.61%) HP
6 19 (7.12%) Google
7 12 (4.49%) Adobe
8 7 (2.62%) HubSpot
9 6 (2.25%) Marketo
9 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.87%) mParticle
10 5 (1.87%) Remedy
10 5 (1.87%) Tealium
11 4 (1.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (1.50%) VMware
12 3 (1.12%) Computacenter
12 3 (1.12%) Juniper
12 3 (1.12%) YouTube
267 Digital Marketing jobs in England