Marketing Contract Job Trends 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 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 78 103
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 +47
Contract jobs citing Marketing 30 36 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.40% 1.51% 1.45%
As % of the General category 2.25% 2.73% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 28
10th Percentile £427 £286 £274
25th Percentile £463 £306 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £424 £588
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% -27.87% +17.50%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £678
90th Percentile £646 £587 £708
England median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £15.08 £24.11 -
25th Percentile £15.94 - -
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% - -
75th Percentile £55.31 - -
90th Percentile £77.63 - -
England median hourly rate £34.25 £31.62 £32.25
% change year-on-year +8.32% -1.95% -14.00%

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 1,332 1,317 1,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 61.95% 55.27% 53.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 756 1,004
10th Percentile £270 £276 £252
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £555 £586 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 78 107
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £14.35 £18.01 £16.70
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +55.35% +7.29%
75th Percentile £48.56 £44.69 £38.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £54.00 £62.39
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% +40.00% +10.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing in the North West over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in the North West

Marketing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Marketing in the North West over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 September 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 +7 20 £525 +10.53% 183
Cheshire -26 6 £435 -26.71% 53
Lancashire +3 3 £620 - 93
Merseyside +6 1 - - 35
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 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.33%) CMS
1 1 (3.33%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.67%) Google Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Relational Database
2 9 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (30.00%) Gradle
2 9 (30.00%) JUnit
2 9 (30.00%) Liquibase
2 9 (30.00%) Mockito
3 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 13 (43.33%) Electronics
2 13 (43.33%) Manufacturing
2 13 (43.33%) Public Sector
2 13 (43.33%) Telecoms
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Retail
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) Data Scientist
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Kafka Developer
3 4 (13.33%) React Developer
3 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Development Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Recruitment Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) E-Commerce Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Senior
6 1 (3.33%) Veeva Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Kafka
1 9 (30.00%) OpenAPI
1 9 (30.00%) React
1 9 (30.00%) Spring
1 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
1 9 (30.00%) Swagger
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Life Science
2 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Digital Marketing
2 13 (43.33%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (43.33%) Programme Management
3 10 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Microservices
4 9 (30.00%) Migration
4 9 (30.00%) TDD
5 6 (20.00%) Analytics
6 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) Build Automation
7 4 (13.33%) CRM
7 4 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) C
5 2 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) IEC 61508
1 2 (6.67%) ISO 26262
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) GxP
2 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.33%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) SCCM
1 1 (3.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) SAP
2 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe
4 1 (3.33%) Apple
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Sitecore