Advertising Contracts in the South West

Advertising
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 146 140
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing Advertising 4 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.23% 0.30% 0.71%
As % of the General category 0.39% 0.61% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile - - £239
25th Percentile £538 £260 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £345 £450
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -23.33% -17.24%
75th Percentile £631 £430 £500
90th Percentile £643 £434 £590
England median daily rate £435 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +8.75% -20.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £54.18
25th Percentile - £6.57 £58.56
Median hourly rate - £7.85 £66.75
Median % change year-on-year - -88.24% -
75th Percentile - £9.14 £74.56
90th Percentile - - £78.73
England median hourly rate £42.50 £45.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.10% -3.68% +20.25%

All General Skills
South West

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 common skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,019 1,650 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 58.23% 50.20% 47.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 993 1,181
10th Percentile £213 £246 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 278 108
10th Percentile £15.14 £12.94 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.15 £18.15 £39.04
Median hourly rate £32.25 £45.00 £59.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -24.87% +42.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £88.25
England median hourly rate £28.18 £30.83 £31.76
% change year-on-year -8.58% -2.94% +47.72%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Advertising as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Advertising in the South West

Advertising
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advertising in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Advertising in the South West

Advertising
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advertising in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Advertising in the South West

Advertising
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Wiltshire +32 3 £575 +36.90% 5
Somerset - 1 £650 - 21
Advertising
England

Advertising
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Google Ads
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) DMVPN
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Monetization
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) Criteo
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto