Marketing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Marketing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 40 56 75
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 -27
Contract jobs citing Marketing 66 91 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.37% 3.39% 2.63%
As % of the General category 6.85% 6.13% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 54
10th Percentile £525 £201 £340
25th Percentile £581 £213 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% -7.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £700 £525 £588
90th Percentile - £533 £650
South East median daily rate £481 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.94% -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 0
10th Percentile - £22.50 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £23.44 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.64% - -
75th Percentile £15.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - £68.38 -
South East median hourly rate £22.90 £27.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.72% -54.17% +100.00%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 963 1,485 1,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 63.73% 55.29% 62.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 787 1,231
10th Percentile £265 £205 £303
25th Percentile £409 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £601
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 137 41
10th Percentile - £17.86 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.61 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.38 £48.40 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% +49.85% +84.57%
75th Percentile £61.37 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.71 £75.24 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Marketing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Marketing in the Thames Valley

Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Marketing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Marketing in the Thames Valley

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in the Thames Valley

Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Marketing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Marketing in the Thames Valley

Marketing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +21 59 £650 +36.84% 104
Buckinghamshire -2 4 £756 +77.88% 67
Oxfordshire +5 3 £550 +57.14% 62
Marketing
South East

Marketing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.52%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.61%) Azure
2 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
3 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (3.03%) Google Analytics
3 2 (3.03%) PaaS
3 2 (3.03%) SaaS
4 1 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.52%) AWS
4 1 (1.52%) Figma
4 1 (1.52%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) SMS
2 2 (3.03%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.03%) Wireless
3 1 (1.52%) BGP
3 1 (1.52%) Broadband
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.52%) Junos
3 1 (1.52%) LAN
3 1 (1.52%) OSPF
3 1 (1.52%) TACACS
3 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) Tableau
2 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Git
1 4 (6.06%) Selenium
2 3 (4.55%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 47 (71.21%) Telecoms
2 44 (66.67%) Finance
3 37 (56.06%) Electronics
3 37 (56.06%) Public Sector
4 36 (54.55%) Manufacturing
5 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
6 12 (18.18%) Legal
7 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.55%) Law
9 3 (4.55%) Retail
10 2 (3.03%) Automotive
11 1 (1.52%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (1.52%) German Language
11 1 (1.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Architect
2 21 (31.82%) Active Directory Architect
3 6 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) Senior
4 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Officer
5 4 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Communications Specialist
6 3 (4.55%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Administrator
7 2 (3.03%) Analyst
7 2 (3.03%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Implementation Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Implementation Project Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Platform Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Senior Tester
7 2 (3.03%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) Gherkin
1 3 (4.55%) PySpark
2 2 (3.03%) VML
2 2 (3.03%) YAML
3 1 (1.52%) CSS
3 1 (1.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.55%) Social Media
3 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) Podcast
4 1 (1.52%) CMDB
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (37.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.06%) Business Intelligence
1 37 (56.06%) Digital Marketing
2 36 (54.55%) Programme Management
3 25 (37.88%) Agile
4 24 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 21 (31.82%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (15.15%) B2C
6 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (10.61%) CRM
7 7 (10.61%) Data Protection
7 7 (10.61%) Project Management
8 6 (9.09%) Analytics
8 6 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.09%) Data Privacy
8 6 (9.09%) DevOps
8 6 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
9 5 (7.58%) Customer Experience
9 5 (7.58%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (7.58%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.09%) SQL
3 5 (7.58%) Python
4 4 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (1.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.85%) DV Cleared
3 7 (10.61%) Degree
3 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.09%) ISEB
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) MBA
5 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PMP
5 1 (1.52%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (1.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.52%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) NFS
2 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.03%) vRealize
1 2 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 37 (56.06%) SAP
2 4 (6.06%) Adobe
3 3 (4.55%) Databricks
3 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.03%) Concur
4 2 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) Splunk
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Citrix
5 1 (1.52%) Dell
5 1 (1.52%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.52%) F5
5 1 (1.52%) HP
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) Juniper
5 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto