Advertising Contracts 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 281 302
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 +96
Contract jobs citing Advertising 97 98 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.72% 0.61% 0.66%
As % of the General category 1.05% 0.97% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 53 104
10th Percentile £222 £200 £316
25th Percentile £300 £275 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £375 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -23.47% -2.00%
75th Percentile £499 £500 £614
90th Percentile £572 £600 £689
England median daily rate £405 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +7.87% -21.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 11
10th Percentile £27.70 £32.94 £21.25
25th Percentile £31.31 £37.25 £28.90
Median hourly rate £48.25 £48.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +1.56% +18.52%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.00 £55.75
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £48.48 £47.75
% change year-on-year -12.33% +1.52% +17.18%

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 9,263 10,110 14,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.80% 62.55% 64.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,145 7,079 10,941
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £720
90th Percentile £800 £825 £823
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.20% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 145 170
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.86
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £33.27
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +5.20% -5.62%
75th Percentile £48.13 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.45 £67.20 £72.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Advertising as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Advertising in London

Advertising
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advertising in London.

Daily rate trend for Advertising in London

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in London

Advertising
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advertising in London.

Hourly rate trend for Advertising in London

Advertising
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Advertising in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in London

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 18 August 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 -9 9 £509 +7.11% 66
South London -3 1 £175 -12.50% 7
Advertising
England

Advertising
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.03%) CMS
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.06%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (2.06%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.06%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.03%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (1.03%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Shopify
1 3 (3.09%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.19%) GCP
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.12%) Azure
3 4 (4.12%) dbt
3 4 (4.12%) Vertex AI
4 3 (3.09%) Asana
4 3 (3.09%) BigCommerce
4 3 (3.09%) Figma
4 3 (3.09%) Google Ads
4 3 (3.09%) OneDrive
4 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.06%) AWS
5 2 (2.06%) Facebook Ads
5 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.06%) SaaS
5 2 (2.06%) Slack
5 2 (2.06%) Smartsheet
5 2 (2.06%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.03%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.03%) DNS
1 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.03%) Firewall
1 1 (1.03%) HTTP
1 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.15%) BigQuery
2 5 (5.15%) Tableau
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.03%) Big Data
4 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Power BI
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
1 4 (4.12%) MLflow
2 3 (3.09%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Babel
3 1 (1.03%) Maven
3 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 56 (57.73%) Marketing
2 23 (23.71%) Finance
2 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.34%) Legal
5 8 (8.25%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (7.22%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.22%) Retail
7 4 (4.12%) Automotive
7 4 (4.12%) French Language
7 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.12%) Italian Language
7 4 (4.12%) Spanish Language
8 3 (3.09%) Games
8 3 (3.09%) Music Industry
8 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.09%) Publishing
9 2 (2.06%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.06%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (14.43%) Senior
2 11 (11.34%) Account Manager
3 10 (10.31%) Analyst
4 7 (7.22%) Consultant
5 6 (6.19%) Designer
5 6 (6.19%) Marketing Manager
5 6 (6.19%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.15%) Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Digital Account Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Client Services Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Development Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Lead
7 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Sales Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) VML
2 2 (2.06%) ATL
2 2 (2.06%) CSS
2 2 (2.06%) Jest
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.06%) React
2 2 (2.06%) Redux
2 2 (2.06%) RESTful
3 1 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) Kafka
3 1 (1.03%) NumPy
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.03%) OpenID
3 1 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.03%) Pandas
3 1 (1.03%) Sass
3 1 (1.03%) Vitest
3 1 (1.03%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Social Media
2 12 (12.37%) Digital Media
3 5 (5.15%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.12%) Motion Graphics
5 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.06%) Animation
6 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.03%) iPad
7 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.03%) Mixed Reality
7 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.03%) Tandem
7 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (17.53%) Digital Marketing
2 17 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (16.49%) Analytics
4 15 (15.46%) CRM
5 14 (14.43%) Ad Operations
5 14 (14.43%) Project Management
6 13 (13.40%) Agile
6 13 (13.40%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (13.40%) Programmatic Advertising
7 12 (12.37%) Campaign Management
8 9 (9.28%) Data Science
8 9 (9.28%) Integrated Marketing
8 9 (9.28%) Marketing Strategy
8 9 (9.28%) Product Marketing
8 9 (9.28%) Roadmaps
9 8 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (8.25%) E-Commerce
9 8 (8.25%) Storytelling
10 7 (7.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.25%) Python
2 7 (7.22%) SQL
3 2 (2.06%) Java
3 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.03%) C++
4 1 (1.03%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.03%) R
4 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) PMP
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) CCNP
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) GDPR
1 3 (3.09%) SLA
2 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.03%) PMO
2 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Salesforce
2 12 (12.37%) Google
3 10 (10.31%) Adobe
4 6 (6.19%) Facebook
5 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.12%) SAP
7 3 (3.09%) Sitecore
7 3 (3.09%) TikTok
7 3 (3.09%) Workday
8 2 (2.06%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.06%) comScore
8 2 (2.06%) Instagram
8 2 (2.06%) Oracle
9 1 (1.03%) Apple
9 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.03%) Cisco
9 1 (1.03%) F5
9 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.03%) Snow
9 1 (1.03%) YouTube