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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 63 73
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 +33
Contract jobs citing Marketing 855 1,050 1,131
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.76% 3.46% 2.94%
As % of the General category 4.41% 5.71% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 573 772
10th Percentile £170 £248 £215
25th Percentile £311 £343 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 32 43
10th Percentile £15.90 £17.08 £17.30
25th Percentile £20.15 £27.50 £21.38
Median hourly rate £23.83 £33.75 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +16.38% -22.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £56.50 £47.27
90th Percentile £50.35 £79.05 £58.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £31.62 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.65% +5.40% -20.00%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,379 18,404 22,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.58% 60.70% 59.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,319 11,118 15,590
10th Percentile £275 £300 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,255 665 1,041
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.80 £18.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -6.31% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -13.36% -13.28% +26.84%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -7 510 £450 - 455
South East -57 94 £505 -8.18% 541
South West -26 65 £550 -0.90% 174
Midlands -20 64 £423 -5.90% 266
North of England -72 54 £435 -12.56% 344
East Midlands +10 41 £402 +43.57% 113
East of England +4 41 £215 -50.86% 180
North West -40 27 £443 -10.15% 191
West Midlands -39 23 £463 -7.50% 144
Yorkshire -41 20 £450 -19.43% 116
North East -10 7 £175 -51.72% 38
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 (5.03%) CMS
2 17 (1.99%) WordPress
3 14 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.17%) Confluence
6 8 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.35%) Drupal
8 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.35%) SugarCRM
9 2 (0.23%) Apache
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 46 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.11%) Photoshop
5 13 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (1.29%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (1.05%) Adobe Premiere
8 8 (0.94%) InDesign
8 8 (0.94%) Trello
9 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.47%) Notion
13 3 (0.35%) Camtasia
13 3 (0.35%) Snagit
14 1 (0.12%) CapCut
14 1 (0.12%) Sketch
14 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 14 (1.64%) Shopify
4 6 (0.70%) Workfront
5 5 (0.58%) Eloqua
6 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
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
7 2 (0.23%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.12%) Endur
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (9.36%) Azure
2 69 (8.07%) SaaS
3 56 (6.55%) Power Platform
4 46 (5.38%) AWS
5 41 (4.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 38 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (4.33%) GCP
8 36 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (3.63%) Google Analytics
10 28 (3.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 18 (2.11%) Figma
11 18 (2.11%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.11%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.75%) Snowflake
13 14 (1.64%) Serverless
14 13 (1.52%) GitHub
15 12 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.40%) Google Ads
16 10 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.81%) Wireless
2 11 (1.29%) SMS
3 7 (0.82%) 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
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
8 2 (0.23%) BGP
8 2 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) Firewall
8 2 (0.23%) Internet
8 2 (0.23%) Junos
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%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.15%) Power BI
2 30 (3.51%) Tableau
3 16 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.52%) BigQuery
5 9 (1.05%) Looker
6 7 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.82%) 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
10 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.23%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.23%) Metadata
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.23%) Parquet
10 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (3.04%) JIRA
2 14 (1.64%) Git
3 10 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.70%) Postman
5 4 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.47%) Clang
5 4 (0.47%) GCC
5 4 (0.47%) MLflow
5 4 (0.47%) Vite
5 4 (0.47%) webpack
6 3 (0.35%) GitLab
6 3 (0.35%) JUnit
6 3 (0.35%) Storybook
6 3 (0.35%) Subversion
6 3 (0.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.23%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 311 (36.37%) Finance
1 311 (36.37%) Social Skills
2 196 (22.92%) Public Sector
2 196 (22.92%) Telecoms
3 190 (22.22%) Electronics
4 189 (22.11%) Manufacturing
5 131 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (6.32%) Retail
7 45 (5.26%) Advertising
8 43 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (4.91%) Legal
10 23 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.46%) Banking
13 18 (2.11%) Italian Language
14 16 (1.87%) Publishing
15 15 (1.75%) French Language
15 15 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.64%) German Language
Job Titles
1 91 (10.64%) Analyst
2 66 (7.72%) Architect
3 52 (6.08%) Consultant
3 52 (6.08%) Senior
4 48 (5.61%) Lead
5 46 (5.38%) Project Manager
6 45 (5.26%) Marketing Manager
7 43 (5.03%) Developer
8 40 (4.68%) Business Analyst
9 39 (4.56%) IT Support
10 31 (3.63%) Desktop Support
11 30 (3.51%) Salesforce Architect
12 28 (3.27%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
12 28 (3.27%) 2nd Line Support
12 28 (3.27%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
13 27 (3.16%) Designer
14 26 (3.04%) Data Scientist
15 21 (2.46%) Coordinator
16 19 (2.22%) Data Analyst
16 19 (2.22%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.15%) HTML
2 34 (3.98%) REST
3 24 (2.81%) CSS
4 23 (2.69%) SOAP
5 17 (1.99%) Middleware
6 16 (1.87%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (1.75%) Visualforce
8 14 (1.64%) .NET
9 12 (1.40%) React
10 11 (1.29%) JSON
11 8 (0.94%) Pandas
11 8 (0.94%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.70%) PySpark
12 6 (0.70%) RESTful
13 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
13 5 (0.58%) Next.js
13 5 (0.58%) Node.js
13 5 (0.58%) OAuth
14 4 (0.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.78%) Social Media
2 51 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 47 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.03%) Marketing Technology
5 25 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (2.57%) Digital Media
9 18 (2.11%) Web Conferencing
10 16 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.52%) Blog
12 13 (1.52%) e-Learning
13 12 (1.40%) NHS
14 11 (1.29%) Learning Management System
14 11 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.05%) Cloud Native
16 8 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.39%) Windows
2 24 (2.81%) Android
2 24 (2.81%) Mac OS
3 15 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.29%) Linux
5 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (31.81%) Digital Marketing
2 240 (28.07%) Business Intelligence
3 191 (22.34%) Programme Management
4 169 (19.77%) CRM
5 168 (19.65%) Analytics
6 144 (16.84%) Agile
7 136 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 116 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (11.11%) Project Management
10 84 (9.82%) Roadmaps
11 82 (9.59%) User Experience
12 80 (9.36%) Migration
13 76 (8.89%) AI
14 72 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 64 (7.49%) Customer Engagement
16 61 (7.13%) Workflow
17 60 (7.02%) B2B
17 60 (7.02%) Decision-Making
18 59 (6.90%) DevOps
19 56 (6.55%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 83 (9.71%) SQL
2 72 (8.42%) Python
3 44 (5.15%) JavaScript
4 21 (2.46%) R
5 19 (2.22%) C#
6 18 (2.11%) Java
7 16 (1.87%) Apex Code
7 16 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.17%) C++
10 6 (0.70%) C
10 6 (0.70%) PHP
11 5 (0.58%) Bash
11 5 (0.58%) Go
12 3 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.12%) Tcl
13 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 136 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 124 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.12%) Degree
4 22 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 11 (1.29%) CISSP
8 10 (1.17%) PMP
9 7 (0.82%) CESG Certified Professional
9 7 (0.82%) CISM
9 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (0.35%) APMG
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.35%) CSPO
11 3 (0.35%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 3 (0.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.60%) GDPR
2 52 (6.08%) Accessibility
3 38 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 34 (3.98%) QA
5 24 (2.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.17%) PMO
8 9 (1.05%) SLA
9 8 (0.94%) NCSC
10 7 (0.82%) PERC
10 7 (0.82%) RMADS
11 5 (0.58%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.47%) NIST
12 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.47%) WCAG
13 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 15 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.94%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
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 10 (1.17%) Terraform
2 4 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.35%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (0.35%) vRealize
4 2 (0.23%) Grafana
4 2 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Puppet
4 2 (0.23%) SCCM
4 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.12%) FreeIPA
5 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 208 (24.33%) SAP
2 155 (18.13%) Salesforce
3 99 (11.58%) Microsoft
4 66 (7.72%) Adobe
5 64 (7.49%) Google
6 35 (4.09%) Cisco
6 35 (4.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 26 (3.04%) Apple
8 25 (2.92%) HP
9 24 (2.81%) Dell
9 24 (2.81%) HubSpot
10 15 (1.75%) Facebook
11 12 (1.40%) Oracle
11 12 (1.40%) Tealium
12 11 (1.29%) OneTrust
13 9 (1.05%) Databricks
14 8 (0.94%) Marketo
14 8 (0.94%) mParticle
14 8 (0.94%) TikTok
14 8 (0.94%) YouTube