Marketing Contracts in Reading

Marketing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 58 60
Rank change year-on-year +41 +2 -29
Contract jobs citing Marketing 52 33 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.71% 2.77% 2.59%
As % of the General category 12.87% 4.57% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 17
10th Percentile £588 £200 £399
25th Percentile £600 £302 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £469 £515
Median % change year-on-year +38.67% -8.98% -4.19%
75th Percentile £700 £500 £625
90th Percentile - £504 £671
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 722 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 67.67% 60.57% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 341 397
10th Percentile £319 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 9
10th Percentile - £42.00 £39.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £52.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% -4.75% +130.98%
75th Percentile - £76.99 £66.21
90th Percentile - £87.53 £70.80
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Marketing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Marketing in Reading

Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Marketing in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Marketing in Reading

Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Marketing in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Marketing in Reading

Marketing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.92%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) SMS
2 2 (3.85%) Wireless
3 1 (1.92%) BGP
3 1 (1.92%) Broadband
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.92%) Junos
3 1 (1.92%) LAN
3 1 (1.92%) OSPF
3 1 (1.92%) TACACS
3 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
1 4 (7.69%) Selenium
2 3 (5.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 44 (84.62%) Telecoms
2 40 (76.92%) Finance
3 33 (63.46%) Electronics
3 33 (63.46%) Manufacturing
3 33 (63.46%) Public Sector
4 12 (23.08%) Legal
5 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
6 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.77%) Law
7 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Architect
2 21 (40.38%) Active Directory Architect
3 6 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Data Protection Officer
4 5 (9.62%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Communications Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) HR Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Lead
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Automation Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) Gherkin
1 3 (5.77%) PySpark
2 2 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.85%) Podcast
2 2 (3.85%) Social Media
3 1 (1.92%) CMDB
3 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (48.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) Business Intelligence
1 33 (63.46%) Digital Marketing
1 33 (63.46%) Programme Management
2 24 (46.15%) Agile
2 24 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 21 (40.38%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (17.31%) B2C
5 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.54%) Data Privacy
6 6 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 6 (11.54%) DevOps
6 6 (11.54%) Impact Assessments
7 5 (9.62%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (7.69%) Customer Experience
8 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.77%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.62%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Bash
4 3 (5.77%) SQL
5 2 (3.85%) Bicep
6 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 23 (44.23%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) ISEB
4 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 21 (40.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (63.46%) SAP
2 3 (5.77%) Databricks
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco
3 1 (1.92%) Citrix
3 1 (1.92%) Concur
3 1 (1.92%) Dell
3 1 (1.92%) DocuSign
3 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.92%) F5
3 1 (1.92%) HP
3 1 (1.92%) IBM
3 1 (1.92%) Juniper
3 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce