Advertising Contract Job Trends in the North West

Advertising
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 120 132
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing Advertising 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.048% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.30% 0.083% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £378 - £389
25th Percentile £393 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -34.69% +26.83% +13.89%
75th Percentile £472 - £603
90th Percentile £490 - £646
England median daily rate £425 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -24.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £10.62
25th Percentile - - £11.22
Median hourly rate - - £12.78
75th Percentile - - £14.66
90th Percentile - - £15.46
England median hourly rate £44.75 £49.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -9.14% +159.22% -45.71%

All General Skills
North West

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 general skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,693 1,198 1,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 59.40% 58.04% 54.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 691 945
10th Percentile £200 £266 £265
25th Percentile £356 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £583
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 98 199
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.97 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.55 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.90 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +18.73% +68.74% -31.85%
75th Percentile £56.97 £49.69 £36.72
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.92 £46.54
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £25.90
% change year-on-year -21.76% +17.59% -20.32%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Advertising job vacancy trend in the North West

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Advertising.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Advertising

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Advertising.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Advertising

Advertising
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 March 2026. 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
Cheshire - 3 £425 - 4
Manchester - 2 £436 - 13
Advertising
England

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DataStage
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) BYOD
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Android Development
2 1 (20.00%) BPMN
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (20.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware
1 1 (20.00%) Zscaler