Advertising Contracts in the UK excluding London

Advertising
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 341 321
Rank change year-on-year +26 -20 +118
Contract jobs citing Advertising 21 47 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.23% 0.54%
As % of the General category 0.26% 0.42% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 35 86
10th Percentile - £205 £209
25th Percentile £428 £260 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -25.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £613 £450 £663
90th Percentile £646 £534 £713
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +6.25% -21.95% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - - £27.90
25th Percentile - £6.57 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £11.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.31% +152.94%
75th Percentile - £17.87 £51.88
90th Percentile - £34.61 £64.85
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £41.08 £39.77
% change year-on-year -12.97% +3.29% -1.80%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,982 11,233 13,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.39% 54.64% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,937 6,411 9,211
10th Percentile £213 £205 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 1,648 775
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.35
25th Percentile £16.31 £15.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -2.59% +54.67%
75th Percentile £56.58 £53.75 £60.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +47.73%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Advertising as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Advertising in the UK excluding London

Advertising
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advertising in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Advertising in the UK excluding London

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in the UK excluding London

Advertising
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advertising in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Advertising in the UK excluding London

Advertising
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advertising within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Midlands +20 9 £435 +67.31% 57
West Midlands +20 8 £435 +70.59% 26
South East +27 6 £500 +42.86% 177
South West +32 5 £575 +66.67% 66
North of England +10 2 £650 +36.84% 118
North West +9 2 £650 +73.33% 72
East Midlands +8 1 £475 -5.00% 28
Advertising
UK

Advertising
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) GCP
1 1 (4.76%) Google Ads
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) BGP
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (9.52%) DMVPN
2 2 (9.52%) OSPF
2 2 (9.52%) VXLAN
2 2 (9.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
1 1 (4.76%) Metadata
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Marketing
2 2 (9.52%) Military
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) JavaScript Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Network Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Help Desk Operator
4 2 (9.52%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Data Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Email Marketing Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) React
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) jQuery
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Agile
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (28.57%) Project Management
2 5 (23.81%) API Development
2 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
2 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (14.29%) CAFM
3 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 3 (14.29%) Workflow
4 2 (9.52%) A/B Testing
4 2 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (9.52%) Change Management
4 2 (9.52%) Data Management
4 2 (9.52%) Data Science
4 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
4 2 (9.52%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing Automation
5 1 (4.76%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) PHP
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) CCNP
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Apple
3 1 (4.76%) Criteo
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Marketo
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft