Digital Marketing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Digital Marketing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Digital Marketing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 80 83
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Digital Marketing 8 6 18
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.66% 0.56% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.63% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 16
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile £170 £475 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £500 £713
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% -29.82% -1.72%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £738
90th Percentile £694 - -
North West median daily rate £175 £500 £713
% change year-on-year -65.00% -29.82% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Digital Marketing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,082 955 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.87% 89.50% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 567 983
10th Percentile £309 £294 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 49
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.97 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.39 £22.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +8.33% -21.36%
75th Percentile £52.88 £36.19 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £75.90
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.73
% change year-on-year +1.60% -12.53% +34.66%

Digital Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Digital Marketing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Digital Marketing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Marketing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Marketing in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Marketing in Manchester

Digital Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Marketing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Marketing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cheadle - 2 £550 -
Digital Marketing
North West

Digital Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (100.00%) Electronics
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 8 (100.00%) Marketing
1 8 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 5 (62.50%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (62.50%) Desktop Support
1 5 (62.50%) IT Support
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Android
1 5 (62.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) FMEA
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) C++
1 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) IEC 61508
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 26262
2 1 (12.50%) IEC 62304
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (62.50%) Apple
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) Dell
2 5 (62.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian