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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Marketing 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 0.79% - 2.59%
As % of the General category 1.49% - 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile £458 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.42%
75th Percentile £473 - £725
90th Percentile - - £813
East of England median daily rate £215 £375 £524
% change year-on-year -42.67% -28.40% +4.75%

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 67 77 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 52.76% 57.89% 55.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 88
10th Percentile £161 £181 £246
25th Percentile £225 £300 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -33.33% +5.95%
75th Percentile £511 £494 £576
90th Percentile £637 £595 £603
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 6
10th Percentile - £18.79 £31.67
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.88 £47.19
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.45% -27.86% +127.64%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £74.30 £66.95 £84.72
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year -21.30% +115.12% -10.55%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Marketing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Marketing 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 17 September 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 - 3
Marketing
East of England

Marketing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI