Marketing Contracts in the North West

Marketing
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 97 122
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 +21
Contract jobs citing Marketing 38 33 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.81% 1.19% 0.91%
As % of the General category 3.08% 2.21% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 18
10th Percentile £217 £291 £267
25th Percentile £375 £325 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £425 £493
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -13.71% -6.19%
75th Percentile £630 £519 £684
90th Percentile £681 £575 £690
England median daily rate £475 £475 £515
% change year-on-year - -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £38.00 £33.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year +15.15% -10.81% -7.50%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,232 1,494 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 58.58% 54.07% 52.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 881 1,106
10th Percentile £299 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £518 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.27% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 192 88
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £14.62
25th Percentile £14.55 £15.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £29.27 £23.48 £24.08
Median % change year-on-year +24.69% -2.49% +2.93%
75th Percentile £58.42 £42.93 £35.21
90th Percentile £76.25 £51.90 £55.60
England median hourly rate £27.17 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.67% +10.00% +28.26%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Marketing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Marketing in the North West

Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Marketing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Marketing in the North West

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing in the North West over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in the North West

Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Marketing in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Marketing in the North West

Marketing
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 Marketing within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Manchester +12 22 £513 +20.59% 628
Cheshire -6 7 £550 -12.00% 164
Lancashire +4 6 £625 - 209
Merseyside +3 3 £650 +152.43% 87
Marketing
England

Marketing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.63%) CMS
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (2.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Chatbot
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) InVision
3 1 (2.63%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (13.16%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Figma
4 2 (5.26%) Google Ads
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) Azure
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.63%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (26.32%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.63%) Big Data
3 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Gradle
1 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
1 10 (26.32%) JUnit
1 10 (26.32%) Liquibase
1 10 (26.32%) Mockito
2 5 (13.16%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Axure RP
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 18 (47.37%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Public Sector
3 10 (26.32%) Electronics
3 10 (26.32%) Manufacturing
3 10 (26.32%) Telecoms
4 7 (18.42%) Legal
4 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Advertising
7 1 (2.63%) Automotive
7 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Consultant
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Java Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) React Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Recruitment Consultant
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Content Designer
5 3 (7.89%) Designer
5 3 (7.89%) UX Designer
6 2 (5.26%) Customer Executive
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Programme Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) Kafka
1 10 (26.32%) OpenAPI
1 10 (26.32%) React
1 10 (26.32%) Spring
1 10 (26.32%) Spring Boot
1 10 (26.32%) Swagger
2 1 (2.63%) CSS
2 1 (2.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Social Media
2 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.63%) Life Science
3 1 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Photography
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Android
1 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Agile
2 12 (31.58%) Digital Marketing
3 11 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (28.95%) Migration
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
4 10 (26.32%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) Microservices
4 10 (26.32%) Programme Management
4 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 10 (26.32%) TDD
5 7 (18.42%) Asset Management
5 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 6 (15.79%) Recruitment Marketing
7 5 (13.16%) Build Automation
7 5 (13.16%) Clean Code
7 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (13.16%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) Java
1 10 (26.32%) SQL
1 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
2 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.63%) GxP
3 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) SAP
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.26%) Adobe
4 2 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) Apple
5 1 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.63%) Criteo
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Facebook
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.63%) Twitter
5 1 (2.63%) YouTube