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 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 62 71
Rank change year-on-year -33 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing Marketing 850 993 1,062
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.69% 3.52% 2.91%
As % of the General category 4.38% 5.70% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 544 730
10th Percentile £192 £245 £210
25th Percentile £300 £337 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.15% -1.67%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.15% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 30 36
10th Percentile £15.65 £18.20 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.33 £30.06 £21.69
Median hourly rate £23.83 £34.75 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -31.44% +20.35% -23.00%
75th Percentile £33.36 £58.00 £45.90
90th Percentile £41.80 £80.75 £56.88
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £32.50 £28.88
% change year-on-year -26.69% +12.55% -23.00%

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 general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 19,392 17,428 21,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.32% 61.76% 59.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,289 10,550 14,617
10th Percentile £283 £300 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,238 596 1,010
10th Percentile £14.11 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.93 £18.47 £16.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.95 £74.25 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £27.39 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% -17.02% +32.00%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -13 514 £433 -3.89% 916
South East -58 91 £505 -8.18% 947
Midlands -18 70 £425 -6.75% 610
South West -30 56 £550 - 379
North of England -83 51 £400 -20.00% 780
East Midlands +11 47 £413 +47.32% 254
East of England +5 43 £475 +10.14% 469
North West -45 28 £450 -9.55% 403
West Midlands -36 23 £588 +17.50% 321
Yorkshire -47 16 £300 -46.28% 326
North East -14 7 £175 -53.33% 51
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 44 (5.18%) CMS
2 16 (1.88%) WordPress
3 14 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (1.29%) Confluence
6 8 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.59%) Drupal
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.35%) SugarCRM
9 2 (0.24%) Apache
9 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.88%) Photoshop
5 11 (1.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 11 (1.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (1.06%) Trello
7 8 (0.94%) InDesign
8 7 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (0.59%) 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%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.12%) Blender
13 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (1.18%) Shopify
4 6 (0.71%) Workfront
5 5 (0.59%) Eloqua
6 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.24%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.24%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP SRM
7 2 (0.24%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.12%) Endur
8 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (9.41%) Azure
2 74 (8.71%) SaaS
3 64 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 44 (5.18%) AWS
5 41 (4.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 40 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
7 38 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (4.12%) GCP
9 30 (3.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 26 (3.06%) Google Analytics
11 21 (2.47%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.35%) Figma
12 20 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.00%) Serverless
14 13 (1.53%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.41%) GitHub
16 11 (1.29%) Google Ads
16 11 (1.29%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (1.18%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.82%) Wireless
2 18 (2.12%) SMS
3 6 (0.71%) HTTP
3 6 (0.71%) VPN
4 5 (0.59%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Intranet
5 4 (0.47%) Network Security
5 4 (0.47%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.35%) BGP
6 3 (0.35%) DHCP
6 3 (0.35%) Firewall
6 3 (0.35%) Junos
6 3 (0.35%) LAN
6 3 (0.35%) OSPF
7 2 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) VLAN
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ICM
8 1 (0.12%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.65%) Power BI
2 28 (3.29%) Tableau
3 15 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.41%) BigQuery
5 10 (1.18%) Looker
6 6 (0.71%) MySQL
6 6 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.47%) Mixpanel
7 4 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.24%) Big Data
9 2 (0.24%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.24%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.24%) Parquet
9 2 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (3.18%) JIRA
2 8 (0.94%) Git
2 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.71%) Postman
4 3 (0.35%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.35%) GitLab
4 3 (0.35%) JUnit
4 3 (0.35%) MLflow
4 3 (0.35%) Storybook
4 3 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 3 (0.35%) Vite
4 3 (0.35%) webpack
5 2 (0.24%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.24%) Clang
5 2 (0.24%) GCC
5 2 (0.24%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.12%) ESLint
6 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
General
1 313 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 308 (36.24%) Finance
3 201 (23.65%) Public Sector
4 196 (23.06%) Telecoms
5 188 (22.12%) Electronics
6 186 (21.88%) Manufacturing
7 131 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
8 51 (6.00%) Retail
9 45 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (4.82%) Advertising
11 40 (4.71%) Legal
12 23 (2.71%) German Language
13 22 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (2.35%) Banking
14 20 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.88%) Italian Language
16 15 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.76%) Publishing
17 13 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (11.29%) Analyst
2 71 (8.35%) Architect
3 55 (6.47%) Consultant
4 51 (6.00%) Lead
5 49 (5.76%) Marketing Manager
6 48 (5.65%) Senior
7 43 (5.06%) Developer
8 41 (4.82%) Business Analyst
9 38 (4.47%) IT Support
10 37 (4.35%) Project Manager
11 31 (3.65%) Salesforce Architect
12 30 (3.53%) Desktop Support
13 28 (3.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
13 28 (3.29%) 2nd Line Support
13 28 (3.29%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
14 27 (3.18%) Designer
15 26 (3.06%) Data Scientist
16 21 (2.47%) Coordinator
17 20 (2.35%) Data Analyst
17 20 (2.35%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.65%) HTML
2 39 (4.59%) REST
3 27 (3.18%) CSS
4 23 (2.71%) SOAP
5 17 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 17 (2.00%) Middleware
6 15 (1.76%) .NET
6 15 (1.76%) Visualforce
7 13 (1.53%) JSON
8 11 (1.29%) React
9 8 (0.94%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.82%) Pandas
11 6 (0.71%) OAuth
11 6 (0.71%) PySpark
11 6 (0.71%) RESTful
12 5 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
12 5 (0.59%) Kafka
12 5 (0.59%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.47%) Ajax
13 4 (0.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.47%) Social Media
2 49 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 43 (5.06%) Marketing Technology
5 25 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.24%) Digital Media
8 19 (2.24%) Web Conferencing
9 14 (1.65%) e-Learning
9 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.65%) NHS
10 13 (1.53%) Learning Management System
10 13 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.41%) Blog
12 11 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.94%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.82%) Android
1 24 (2.82%) Mac OS
2 21 (2.47%) Windows
3 17 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.59%) Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (32.59%) Digital Marketing
2 243 (28.59%) Business Intelligence
3 191 (22.47%) Programme Management
4 168 (19.76%) Analytics
5 165 (19.41%) CRM
6 145 (17.06%) Agile
7 134 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 104 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (10.59%) Project Management
10 84 (9.88%) Roadmaps
11 83 (9.76%) Migration
12 79 (9.29%) AI
13 78 (9.18%) User Experience
14 71 (8.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 66 (7.76%) Customer Engagement
16 63 (7.41%) B2B
17 62 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (7.18%) Decision-Making
19 60 (7.06%) Workflow
20 59 (6.94%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (10.12%) SQL
2 69 (8.12%) Python
3 43 (5.06%) JavaScript
4 20 (2.35%) C#
5 19 (2.24%) R
6 17 (2.00%) Apex Code
7 15 (1.76%) Java
8 14 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.71%) C++
11 4 (0.47%) C
11 4 (0.47%) PHP
12 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.35%) Go
13 2 (0.24%) Bash
13 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.12%) Tcl
14 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 140 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 128 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.94%) Degree
4 24 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.65%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.18%) CISSP
9 9 (1.06%) PMP
10 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.71%) CISM
12 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CESG Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) CSPO
14 3 (0.35%) APMG
14 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 3 (0.35%) JNCIA
14 3 (0.35%) JNCIP
14 3 (0.35%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.35%) GDPR
2 50 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.59%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.76%) QA
5 27 (3.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (1.41%) PMO
7 10 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.94%) PERC
8 8 (0.94%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) NCSC
10 5 (0.59%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.59%) NIST
10 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.59%) RMADS
11 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.47%) WCAG
12 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.24%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.71%) Docker
3 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (0.94%) Terraform
2 5 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (0.35%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.35%) SCCM
3 3 (0.35%) vRealize
4 2 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.24%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.12%) FreeIPA
5 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 205 (24.12%) SAP
2 156 (18.35%) Salesforce
3 102 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 68 (8.00%) Adobe
5 63 (7.41%) Google
6 36 (4.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 35 (4.12%) Cisco
8 26 (3.06%) Apple
9 25 (2.94%) HP
10 24 (2.82%) Dell
11 23 (2.71%) HubSpot
12 13 (1.53%) Facebook
12 13 (1.53%) Tealium
13 12 (1.41%) OneTrust
14 10 (1.18%) Databricks
14 10 (1.18%) mParticle
15 9 (1.06%) Marketo
15 9 (1.06%) Oracle
15 9 (1.06%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.94%) YouTube