Marketing Contracts in the South East

Marketing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 50 59 66
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Marketing 129 177 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.29% 3.18% 3.34%
As % of the General category 6.98% 6.29% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 87 136
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £233 £205 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.94% -9.67%
75th Percentile £700 £513 £538
90th Percentile - £568 £637
England median daily rate £490 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +5.95% -11.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 3
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.90 £29.73
25th Percentile £17.46 £22.50 £41.08
Median hourly rate £22.90 £27.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% -54.17% +100.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £30.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £34.15 £68.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £34.65 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +1.91% -6.85% -2.67%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,848 2,816 3,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 61.40% 50.67% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,546 2,305
10th Percentile £228 £205 £242
25th Percentile £389 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 327 167
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.93 £18.40
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%
75th Percentile £59.69 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.07 £72.98
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Marketing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Marketing in the South East

Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Marketing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Marketing in the South East

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in the South East

Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Marketing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Marketing in the South East

Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Marketing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Marketing in the South East

Marketing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +16 66 £650 +40.54% 208
Berkshire +21 59 £650 +36.84% 105
Hampshire +37 28 £325 -27.78% 79
Surrey +9 19 £207 -56.42% 52
West Sussex +14 5 £350 -24.32% 15
Buckinghamshire -2 4 £756 +77.88% 68
Kent -7 4 £205 - 28
Oxfordshire +5 3 £550 +57.14% 62
East Sussex -2 3 £600 +71.43% 40
Marketing
England

Marketing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (0.78%) CMS
1 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.78%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.53%) Power Platform
2 8 (6.20%) Adobe Analytics
2 8 (6.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 7 (5.43%) Azure
4 5 (3.88%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.55%) GCP
6 2 (1.55%) Google Ads
6 2 (1.55%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.55%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (1.55%) PaaS
6 2 (1.55%) SaaS
7 1 (0.78%) AWS
7 1 (0.78%) Contentsquare
7 1 (0.78%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.78%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) Wireless
2 3 (2.33%) DHCP
2 3 (2.33%) DNS
2 3 (2.33%) iSCSI
2 3 (2.33%) LAN
2 3 (2.33%) SMS
3 2 (1.55%) Firewall
3 2 (1.55%) VLAN
3 2 (1.55%) VPN
3 2 (1.55%) WAN
4 1 (0.78%) BGP
4 1 (0.78%) Broadband
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.78%) Junos
4 1 (0.78%) OSPF
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) TACACS
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) Tableau
2 10 (7.75%) Power BI
3 6 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.10%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (2.33%) Looker
6 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.78%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
2 4 (3.10%) JIRA
2 4 (3.10%) Selenium
3 3 (2.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.78%) Maven
General
1 77 (59.69%) Finance
2 73 (56.59%) Telecoms
3 64 (49.61%) Electronics
4 63 (48.84%) Manufacturing
4 63 (48.84%) Public Sector
5 36 (27.91%) Social Skills
6 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (9.30%) Legal
8 7 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.10%) Retail
10 3 (2.33%) Law
10 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.55%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.55%) Automotive
11 2 (1.55%) Aviation
11 2 (1.55%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.78%) Advertising
12 1 (0.78%) Banking
12 1 (0.78%) German Language
12 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (19.38%) Architect
2 21 (16.28%) Active Directory Architect
3 14 (10.85%) Analyst
4 8 (6.20%) Support Engineer
5 7 (5.43%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (5.43%) Desktop Support
5 7 (5.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (5.43%) Digital Executive
5 7 (5.43%) E-Commerce Executive
5 7 (5.43%) Senior
6 6 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) IT Engineer
7 5 (3.88%) Data Analyst
7 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Officer
8 4 (3.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Marketing Analyst
9 3 (2.33%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) Security Architect
9 3 (2.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) CSS
1 5 (3.88%) HTML
2 3 (2.33%) Gherkin
2 3 (2.33%) PySpark
3 2 (1.55%) VML
3 2 (1.55%) YAML
4 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.78%) Google Maps API
4 1 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.78%) Java EE
4 1 (0.78%) React
4 1 (0.78%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) NHS
2 7 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.88%) Social Media
4 3 (2.33%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.33%) LIMS
5 2 (1.55%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.55%) Podcast
5 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.78%) CMDB
6 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) FPGA
6 1 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Verilog
6 1 (0.78%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.58%) Windows
2 7 (5.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (63.57%) Digital Marketing
2 73 (56.59%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (48.06%) Programme Management
4 28 (21.71%) CRM
5 27 (20.93%) Agile
6 25 (19.38%) Analytics
7 24 (18.60%) Test Automation
8 21 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
9 14 (10.85%) Email Marketing
10 13 (10.08%) E-Commerce
10 13 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (8.53%) B2C
13 10 (7.75%) Customer Experience
13 10 (7.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 10 (7.75%) Project Management
14 9 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
14 9 (6.98%) Change Management
15 8 (6.20%) Data Analysis
15 8 (6.20%) Psychology
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.38%) PowerShell
2 17 (13.18%) SQL
3 7 (5.43%) Python
4 4 (3.10%) Bash
5 2 (1.55%) Bicep
6 1 (0.78%) C
6 1 (0.78%) C++
6 1 (0.78%) Java
6 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.71%) DV Cleared
3 13 (10.08%) Degree
4 10 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) ISEB
6 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.55%) MBA
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.78%) HND
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
7 1 (0.78%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.78%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) QA
2 3 (2.33%) JSP 440
3 2 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) MIL-STD-1553
4 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) NFS
2 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.55%) vRealize
1 2 (1.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (0.78%) Ansible
2 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 63 (48.84%) SAP
2 11 (8.53%) Adobe
3 8 (6.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.88%) Google
5 4 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.33%) Cisco
6 3 (2.33%) Databricks
6 3 (2.33%) Dell
6 3 (2.33%) HP
7 2 (1.55%) Concur
7 2 (1.55%) IBM
7 2 (1.55%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.55%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.55%) Splunk
7 2 (1.55%) TikTok
7 2 (1.55%) VMware
8 1 (0.78%) Citrix
8 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.78%) F5
8 1 (0.78%) Juniper