Marketing Contract Job Trends in England

Marketing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -32 +8 +40
Contract jobs citing Marketing 859 1,043 1,136
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.80% 3.37% 2.92%
As % of the General category 4.43% 5.59% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 564 778
10th Percentile £170 £248 £212
25th Percentile £304 £343 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.08% -0.71%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £450 £489 £523
% change year-on-year -7.93% -6.55% -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 39 43
10th Percentile £16.13 £17.08 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.88 £28.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +14.78% -23.33%
75th Percentile £36.88 £57.25 £44.39
90th Percentile £52.64 £80.75 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.06 £29.00
% change year-on-year -25.14% +10.55% -22.67%

All General Skills
England

Marketing 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 19,391 18,671 23,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.13% 60.27% 59.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,328 11,210 15,788
10th Percentile £275 £300 £288
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 693 1,033
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.23 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £17.46
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.88 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% -6.44% +29.31%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.40 £71.25 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £24.05 £28.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -14.13% -12.50% +28.00%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Marketing job vacancy trend in England

Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Marketing

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing in England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in England

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Marketing

Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Marketing in England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Marketing in England

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 Marketing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 0 521 £450 - 639
South East -53 91 £505 -8.18% 671
South West -17 65 £550 -0.90% 111
Midlands -23 60 £425 -5.35% 152
North of England -77 54 £443 -10.15% 178
East of England +1 39 £215 -49.41% 99
East Midlands +11 38 £407 +45.45% 62
North West -55 26 £450 -8.16% 109
West Midlands -38 22 £463 -7.50% 88
Yorkshire -29 21 £450 -19.43% 53
North East -12 7 £175 -50.00% 18
Marketing
UK

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 43 (5.01%) CMS
2 17 (1.98%) WordPress
3 14 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 10 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.16%) Confluence
4 10 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.35%) Drupal
6 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.35%) SugarCRM
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 45 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.21%) Photoshop
5 14 (1.63%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (1.28%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (1.05%) Adobe Premiere
7 9 (1.05%) InDesign
8 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.93%) Trello
9 6 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.47%) Notion
12 3 (0.35%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.35%) Snagit
13 1 (0.12%) Blender
13 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.86%) Salesforce CRM
3 15 (1.75%) Shopify
4 6 (0.70%) Eloqua
4 6 (0.70%) Workfront
5 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.35%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.23%) Magento
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.23%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.23%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.23%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP SRM
8 1 (0.12%) Endur
8 1 (0.12%) Primavera
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (9.66%) Azure
2 73 (8.50%) SaaS
3 57 (6.64%) Power Platform
4 46 (5.36%) AWS
5 40 (4.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 39 (4.54%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (4.54%) GCP
7 37 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (3.61%) Google Analytics
9 27 (3.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 19 (2.21%) Figma
10 19 (2.21%) PowerApps
11 17 (1.98%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.75%) Snowflake
13 14 (1.63%) Serverless
14 13 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.51%) GitHub
15 12 (1.40%) Google Ads
16 10 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.79%) Wireless
2 11 (1.28%) SMS
3 7 (0.81%) HTTP
4 6 (0.70%) DNS
5 5 (0.58%) VPN
6 4 (0.47%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.35%) Intranet
7 3 (0.35%) LAN
8 2 (0.23%) BGP
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) Firewall
8 2 (0.23%) Internet
8 2 (0.23%) Junos
8 2 (0.23%) Network Security
8 2 (0.23%) OSPF
8 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
8 2 (0.23%) WAN
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco ICM
9 1 (0.12%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.12%) Power BI
2 32 (3.73%) Tableau
3 19 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.86%) BigQuery
5 9 (1.05%) Looker
6 7 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.70%) MySQL
8 4 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.47%) Mixpanel
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.23%) Big Data
10 2 (0.23%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.23%) Parquet
10 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (3.03%) JIRA
2 15 (1.75%) Git
3 10 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.81%) MLflow
5 6 (0.70%) Postman
6 4 (0.47%) Clang
6 4 (0.47%) GCC
6 4 (0.47%) Vite
6 4 (0.47%) webpack
7 3 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 3 (0.35%) JUnit
7 3 (0.35%) Storybook
7 3 (0.35%) Subversion
7 3 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.23%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 317 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 307 (35.74%) Finance
3 192 (22.35%) Public Sector
3 192 (22.35%) Telecoms
4 186 (21.65%) Manufacturing
5 184 (21.42%) Electronics
6 132 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (6.40%) Retail
8 49 (5.70%) Advertising
9 40 (4.66%) Legal
10 36 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (2.21%) Banking
13 19 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (2.21%) Italian Language
14 17 (1.98%) Publishing
15 15 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.75%) French Language
15 15 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (10.59%) Analyst
2 65 (7.57%) Architect
3 54 (6.29%) Senior
4 53 (6.17%) Consultant
5 47 (5.47%) Lead
6 46 (5.36%) Developer
7 45 (5.24%) Marketing Manager
7 45 (5.24%) Project Manager
8 40 (4.66%) Business Analyst
9 39 (4.54%) IT Support
10 31 (3.61%) Desktop Support
11 29 (3.38%) Salesforce Architect
12 28 (3.26%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
12 28 (3.26%) 2nd Line Support
12 28 (3.26%) Data Scientist
12 28 (3.26%) Designer
12 28 (3.26%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
13 23 (2.68%) Product Manager
14 21 (2.44%) Coordinator
15 20 (2.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.47%) HTML
2 33 (3.84%) REST
3 28 (3.26%) CSS
4 23 (2.68%) SOAP
5 17 (1.98%) Middleware
6 16 (1.86%) .NET
6 16 (1.86%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (1.75%) Visualforce
8 13 (1.51%) React
9 11 (1.28%) JSON
10 10 (1.16%) Pandas
11 8 (0.93%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.70%) OAuth
12 6 (0.70%) PySpark
12 6 (0.70%) RESTful
13 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.58%) Next.js
13 5 (0.58%) Node.js
14 4 (0.47%) HTML5 Canvas
14 4 (0.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.52%) Social Media
2 53 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 47 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 45 (5.24%) Marketing Technology
5 25 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.91%) Digital Media
5 25 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.10%) Web Conferencing
8 17 (1.98%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.75%) Blog
9 15 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.40%) NHS
11 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.16%) e-Learning
13 8 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.93%) Learning Management System
14 7 (0.81%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.38%) Windows
2 24 (2.79%) Android
2 24 (2.79%) Mac OS
3 15 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.28%) Linux
5 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (31.08%) Digital Marketing
2 240 (27.94%) Business Intelligence
3 186 (21.65%) Programme Management
4 173 (20.14%) Analytics
5 171 (19.91%) CRM
6 150 (17.46%) Agile
7 140 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 124 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (11.41%) Project Management
10 91 (10.59%) Roadmaps
11 83 (9.66%) User Experience
12 79 (9.20%) AI
13 76 (8.85%) Migration
14 71 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 65 (7.57%) Customer Engagement
16 61 (7.10%) B2B
16 61 (7.10%) Decision-Making
17 60 (6.98%) DevOps
18 58 (6.75%) Customer Experience
18 58 (6.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.48%) SQL
2 74 (8.61%) Python
3 47 (5.47%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.68%) R
5 21 (2.44%) C#
6 18 (2.10%) Java
7 17 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.86%) Apex Code
9 15 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.16%) C++
11 6 (0.70%) C
11 6 (0.70%) PHP
12 5 (0.58%) Bash
13 4 (0.47%) Go
14 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.12%) Korn
15 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.12%) Tcl
15 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 132 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 120 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.55%) Degree
4 23 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.75%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.40%) CISSP
9 10 (1.16%) PMP
10 8 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
11 7 (0.81%) CISM
11 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.70%) PhD
13 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.35%) CCNP
14 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.35%) CLAS
14 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.22%) GDPR
2 52 (6.05%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.54%) Data Quality
4 35 (4.07%) QA
5 24 (2.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.16%) PMO
8 9 (1.05%) SLA
9 8 (0.93%) NCSC
9 8 (0.93%) RMADS
10 6 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.58%) NIST
12 4 (0.47%) PERC
12 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.47%) WCAG
13 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.93%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (1.28%) Terraform
2 6 (0.70%) Kubeflow
3 4 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.35%) Ansible
4 3 (0.35%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (0.35%) vRealize
5 2 (0.23%) Grafana
5 2 (0.23%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.23%) Puppet
5 2 (0.23%) SCCM
5 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.12%) FreeIPA
6 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 204 (23.75%) SAP
2 152 (17.69%) Salesforce
3 100 (11.64%) Microsoft
4 65 (7.57%) Adobe
5 61 (7.10%) Google
6 35 (4.07%) Cisco
6 35 (4.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 26 (3.03%) HP
8 25 (2.91%) Apple
9 24 (2.79%) Dell
9 24 (2.79%) HubSpot
10 16 (1.86%) Facebook
11 13 (1.51%) Oracle
12 10 (1.16%) OneTrust
12 10 (1.16%) Tealium
13 9 (1.05%) Databricks
13 9 (1.05%) YouTube
14 8 (0.93%) Instagram
14 8 (0.93%) Marketo
14 8 (0.93%) TikTok