Marketing Contract Job Trends in Essex

Marketing
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Marketing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.69% - -
As % of the General category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £215 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -49.41% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.92 £15.73 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.57% -73.78% -41.99%

All General Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 66 67 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 55.93% 53.17% 59.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 89
10th Percentile £153 £180 £186
25th Percentile £196 £272 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £319 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -34.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £493 £447 £575
90th Percentile £624 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £13.20 £17.59 £20.50
25th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £22.09
Median hourly rate £29.75 £23.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.35% -54.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £64.43 £42.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.85 £79.50
East of England median hourly rate £20.00 £16.46 £17.72
% change year-on-year +21.51% -7.11% -10.55%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Marketing job vacancy trend in Essex

Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Marketing

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Marketing

Marketing
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the Essex region over the 6 months to 29 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
Basildon - 1 £465 - 6
Maldon - 1 - - 3
Marketing
East of England

Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) OSGi
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI