Advertising Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Advertising
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Advertising 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.25% 0.58% -
As % of the General category 0.58% 1.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £619 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £618 £575 £345
% change year-on-year +7.39% +66.67% -23.33%

All General Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 172 78 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 42.68% 45.61% 53.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 59 65
10th Percentile £319 £325 £202
25th Percentile £406 £459 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £620 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +16.98% +3.41%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £600
90th Percentile £677 £723 £673
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 2 28
10th Percentile £14.68 - £12.50
25th Percentile £24.50 - £22.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £14.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +246.74% -42.32% -37.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile £65.00 - £42.40
South West median hourly rate £39.00 £26.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.17% -41.11% -20.07%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Advertising job vacancy trend in Somerset

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Advertising.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Advertising

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Advertising.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Advertising

Advertising
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Yeovil - 1 £638 - 1
Advertising
South West

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware