Advertising Contract Job Trends in London

Advertising
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 280 313
Rank change year-on-year -33 +33 +70
Contract jobs citing Advertising 69 98 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the General category 0.72% 1.02% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 53 67
10th Percentile £220 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £355 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -21.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £469 £600
90th Percentile £588 £566 £680
England median daily rate £425 £375 £445
% change year-on-year +13.33% -15.73% -19.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £43.03 £29.56 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £32.09 £17.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 £41.29 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% +10.10% -
75th Percentile £53.81 £61.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £53.93 £63.75 £66.55
England median hourly rate £44.50 £42.50 £28.28
% change year-on-year +4.71% +50.31% -24.60%

All General Skills
London

Advertising 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,590 9,613 12,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.56% 64.39% 64.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,124 8,623
10th Percentile £340 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £700
90th Percentile £787 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 118 160
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.48
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £34.12
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +2.59% +0.87%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £66.13 £76.02 £76.38
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year -21.67% -13.67% +35.16%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Advertising job vacancy trend in London

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Advertising.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Advertising

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising in London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in London

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Advertising.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Advertising

Advertising
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Central London -1 7 £510 -3.55% 58
West London - 2 - - 3
South London -8 1 £175 -12.50% 3
Advertising
England

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.45%) CMS
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Adobe After Effects
1 4 (5.80%) Photoshop
2 3 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (4.35%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.90%) InDesign
4 1 (1.45%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.45%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.45%) Sketch
4 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Endur
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.45%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.14%) Google Analytics
1 7 (10.14%) SaaS
2 3 (4.35%) Figma
2 3 (4.35%) Google Tag Manager
3 2 (2.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Asana
3 2 (2.90%) Facebook Ads
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.45%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.45%) AWS
4 1 (1.45%) Azure
4 1 (1.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.45%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.45%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.45%) PaaS
4 1 (1.45%) Serverless
4 1 (1.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) WebEx
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) Tableau
2 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.45%) Big Data
3 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.45%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.45%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (1.45%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) MLflow
General
1 35 (50.72%) Marketing
2 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (21.74%) Finance
4 8 (11.59%) Legal
5 5 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Games
6 4 (5.80%) Publishing
7 3 (4.35%) Banking
7 3 (4.35%) French Language
7 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.35%) Retail
8 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.90%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.45%) Electronics
9 1 (1.45%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.45%) German Language
9 1 (1.45%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (13.04%) Analyst
2 7 (10.14%) Senior
3 6 (8.70%) Consultant
3 6 (8.70%) Marketing Manager
3 6 (8.70%) Technical Writer
4 5 (7.25%) Designer
5 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Producer
6 3 (4.35%) Solutions Consultant
7 2 (2.90%) Coordinator
7 2 (2.90%) Data Analyst
7 2 (2.90%) Development Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Digital Designer
7 2 (2.90%) Email Marketing Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Product Marketing Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) CSS
1 3 (4.35%) HTML
1 3 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (1.45%) .NET
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Digital Media
2 6 (8.70%) Social Media
3 4 (5.80%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (5.80%) Motion Graphics
3 4 (5.80%) Wiki
4 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.35%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.90%) Animation
5 2 (2.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.45%) FMCG
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) Analytics
1 15 (21.74%) Project Management
2 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (15.94%) Digital Marketing
4 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (11.59%) Agile
5 8 (11.59%) CRM
6 7 (10.14%) Customer Experience
6 7 (10.14%) Data Analysis
6 7 (10.14%) Storytelling
7 6 (8.70%) B2B
7 6 (8.70%) E-Commerce
7 6 (8.70%) Roadmaps
8 5 (7.25%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.25%) Lead Generation
8 5 (7.25%) Marketing Strategy
8 5 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (5.80%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.80%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) SQL
2 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.45%) C#
3 1 (1.45%) MATLAB
3 1 (1.45%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) R
3 1 (1.45%) VB
3 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) PMO
2 1 (1.45%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) Google
2 13 (18.84%) Salesforce
3 7 (10.14%) Adobe
4 5 (7.25%) HubSpot
4 5 (7.25%) Marketo
5 4 (5.80%) Facebook
6 2 (2.90%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle
6 2 (2.90%) YouTube
7 1 (1.45%) Instagram
7 1 (1.45%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.45%) Tealium
7 1 (1.45%) TikTok