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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 67 84
Rank change year-on-year -28 +17 +31
Contract jobs citing Marketing 822 1,011 1,073
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.83% 3.24% 2.68%
As % of the General category 4.44% 5.48% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 528 726
10th Percentile £170 £253 £211
25th Percentile £300 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.40% -0.38%
75th Percentile £565 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 46 49
10th Percentile £16.58 £15.12 £18.20
25th Percentile £20.17 £24.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £33.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.30% +10.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £41.84 £42.06 £52.00
90th Percentile £54.00 £70.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% +8.33% -24.05%

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 18,512 18,446 23,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.71% 59.03% 59.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 11,058 16,326
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,147 707 1,021
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.39 £17.08 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.29 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +7.63% +16.69%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £29.50 £29.86
% change year-on-year -17.49% -1.21% +19.44%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +1 508 £440 -7.76% 1,758
South West -10 79 £550 +2.33% 145
South East -56 73 £505 -10.22% 1,406
Midlands -17 54 £447 -4.89% 198
North of England -77 50 £440 -11.11% 319
East Midlands +11 31 £413 +44.74% 98
East of England -12 30 £215 -49.41% 144
West Midlands -37 23 £456 -8.75% 96
North West -63 22 £443 -1.67% 194
Yorkshire -34 19 £450 -20.63% 107
North East -3 9 £175 -53.33% 20
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 45 (5.47%) CMS
2 14 (1.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (1.70%) WordPress
3 12 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.97%) Confluence
5 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.36%) Apache
7 3 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.36%) SugarCRM
7 3 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 41 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.95%) Photoshop
4 14 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (1.09%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.97%) Adobe Premiere
7 8 (0.97%) InDesign
7 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.97%) Trello
8 6 (0.73%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.49%) Notion
10 3 (0.36%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.36%) Snagit
10 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.12%) InVision
12 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (4.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (1.46%) Shopify
4 8 (0.97%) Workfront
5 6 (0.73%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.36%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.24%) Magento
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.12%) Primavera
8 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
8 1 (0.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 81 (9.85%) Azure
2 66 (8.03%) SaaS
3 54 (6.57%) Power Platform
4 45 (5.47%) AWS
5 39 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
5 39 (4.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 38 (4.62%) GCP
7 36 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (3.53%) Google Analytics
9 23 (2.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 22 (2.68%) Figma
11 17 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.07%) Snowflake
12 15 (1.82%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.58%) Google Ads
13 13 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.58%) Serverless
14 12 (1.46%) GitHub
15 8 (0.97%) Asana
15 8 (0.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.80%) Wireless
2 11 (1.34%) SMS
3 7 (0.85%) DNS
4 6 (0.73%) Firewall
5 4 (0.49%) HTTP
6 3 (0.36%) DHCP
6 3 (0.36%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.36%) VPN
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.12%) BGP
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ICM
8 1 (0.12%) Intranet
8 1 (0.12%) Junos
8 1 (0.12%) Network Security
8 1 (0.12%) OSPF
8 1 (0.12%) PSTN
8 1 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.12%) VoIP
8 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.11%) Power BI
2 33 (4.01%) Tableau
3 20 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.31%) BigQuery
5 10 (1.22%) Looker
6 6 (0.73%) Mixpanel
6 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.61%) Metadata
7 5 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.49%) MySQL
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.36%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.36%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (2.92%) JIRA
2 18 (2.19%) Git
3 11 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.85%) MLflow
5 6 (0.73%) Postman
6 5 (0.61%) GitLab
6 5 (0.61%) Vite
6 5 (0.61%) webpack
7 4 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.49%) Clang
7 4 (0.49%) GCC
8 3 (0.36%) Subversion
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.24%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 291 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 286 (34.79%) Finance
3 174 (21.17%) Public Sector
3 174 (21.17%) Telecoms
4 168 (20.44%) Manufacturing
5 162 (19.71%) Electronics
6 119 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (6.33%) Retail
8 50 (6.08%) Advertising
9 32 (3.89%) Legal
10 25 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.95%) Italian Language
15 15 (1.82%) Publishing
16 14 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.70%) French Language
16 14 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.58%) Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (9.61%) Analyst
2 64 (7.79%) Architect
3 60 (7.30%) Senior
4 50 (6.08%) Consultant
5 49 (5.96%) Lead
6 45 (5.47%) Developer
6 45 (5.47%) Marketing Manager
7 42 (5.11%) Project Manager
8 39 (4.74%) IT Support
9 34 (4.14%) Desktop Support
10 32 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 31 (3.77%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
11 31 (3.77%) 2nd Line Support
12 29 (3.53%) Designer
13 28 (3.41%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
14 26 (3.16%) Data Scientist
15 24 (2.92%) Product Manager
16 23 (2.80%) Salesforce Architect
17 21 (2.55%) Data Analyst
18 20 (2.43%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.87%) HTML
2 28 (3.41%) REST
3 27 (3.28%) CSS
4 21 (2.55%) SOAP
5 16 (1.95%) .NET
5 16 (1.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 15 (1.82%) Middleware
7 14 (1.70%) Visualforce
8 12 (1.46%) React
9 11 (1.34%) Pandas
10 8 (0.97%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.85%) Next.js
12 6 (0.73%) PySpark
13 5 (0.61%) .NET Core
13 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.61%) JSON
14 4 (0.49%) HTML5
14 4 (0.49%) Node.js
14 4 (0.49%) React Native
14 4 (0.49%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 49 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 48 (5.84%) Social Media
4 35 (4.26%) Marketing Technology
5 25 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.68%) Digital Media
8 18 (2.19%) Web Conferencing
9 17 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.95%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.70%) Blog
12 13 (1.58%) Cloud Native
13 12 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.97%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.97%) NHS
17 7 (0.85%) CMDB
17 7 (0.85%) Data Structures
17 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.53%) Windows
2 26 (3.16%) Android
3 24 (2.92%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.34%) Linux
5 9 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.24%) Unix
7 2 (0.24%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (29.93%) Digital Marketing
2 221 (26.89%) Business Intelligence
3 168 (20.44%) CRM
4 166 (20.19%) Analytics
4 166 (20.19%) Programme Management
5 139 (16.91%) Agile
6 130 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 125 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (12.29%) Project Management
9 86 (10.46%) Roadmaps
10 84 (10.22%) User Experience
11 74 (9.00%) AI
12 65 (7.91%) Decision-Making
13 64 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (7.54%) Customer Engagement
15 59 (7.18%) Migration
16 57 (6.93%) B2B
16 57 (6.93%) Customer Experience
17 56 (6.81%) DevOps
18 53 (6.45%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 101 (12.29%) SQL
2 67 (8.15%) Python
3 37 (4.50%) JavaScript
4 22 (2.68%) R
5 20 (2.43%) C#
6 18 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 16 (1.95%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.70%) Java
9 11 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.09%) PHP
11 8 (0.97%) C++
12 6 (0.73%) Bash
12 6 (0.73%) C
13 5 (0.61%) Go
14 3 (0.36%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.12%) Tcl
16 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 105 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.25%) Degree
4 24 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 16 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.46%) CISSP
7 12 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.22%) PMP
9 9 (1.09%) CESG Certified Professional
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.85%) PhD
11 6 (0.73%) CISM
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (0.49%) CLAS
14 3 (0.36%) APMG
14 3 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 3 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.57%) GDPR
2 53 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 34 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.89%) QA
5 18 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 15 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.22%) SLA
8 9 (1.09%) RMADS
9 8 (0.97%) NCSC
9 8 (0.97%) PMO
10 7 (0.85%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.85%) NIST
11 5 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.49%) WCAG
13 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.24%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.24%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.46%) Docker
3 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.36%) vSphere
4 2 (0.24%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.24%) XenApp
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (2.55%) Terraform
2 6 (0.73%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.61%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.36%) Ansible
4 3 (0.36%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Grafana
5 2 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (0.24%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (0.24%) Puppet
5 2 (0.24%) 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%) SCCM
6 1 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 185 (22.51%) SAP
2 133 (16.18%) Salesforce
3 90 (10.95%) Microsoft
4 61 (7.42%) Adobe
5 60 (7.30%) Google
6 34 (4.14%) Cisco
7 28 (3.41%) HP
8 26 (3.16%) Apple
8 26 (3.16%) Dell
9 25 (3.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 19 (2.31%) HubSpot
11 15 (1.82%) Facebook
12 13 (1.58%) Oracle
13 12 (1.46%) Databricks
14 11 (1.34%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.34%) YouTube
15 8 (0.97%) Amplitude
15 8 (0.97%) Optimizely
15 8 (0.97%) TikTok
16 7 (0.85%) Instagram