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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 342 329
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 +130
Contract jobs citing Advertising 21 37 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.20% 0.48%
As % of the General category 0.22% 0.38% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 80
10th Percentile £388 £194 £193
25th Percentile £428 £254 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £275 £450
Median % change year-on-year +58.04% -38.83% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £488 £616
90th Percentile £658 £558 £731
UK median daily rate £405 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +7.87% -21.05% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.73 £13.14
25th Percentile - £31.54 £16.28
Median hourly rate £18.00 £48.48 £37.03
Median % change year-on-year -62.87% +30.93% -6.27%
75th Percentile - £57.23 £52.81
90th Percentile - £61.14 £67.63
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £47.99 £47.75
% change year-on-year -11.44% +0.50% +17.90%

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 9,429 9,759 12,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.37% 53.74% 55.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,640 5,625 7,972
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £358 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 854 1,136 825
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.85 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.14 £38.12 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.92% +52.48% +25.00%
75th Percentile £46.92 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.39 £71.01
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +14.35%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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
South East +14 8 £525 +110.00% 121
West Midlands -6 8 £435 +67.31% 32
Midlands -8 8 £435 +67.31% 46
South West +22 4 £613 +77.54% 32
North West -7 2 £650 +136.36% 36
North of England -22 2 £650 +36.84% 86
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
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Google Ads
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) BGP
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (14.29%) OSPF
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (9.52%) IPsec
3 2 (9.52%) Network Security
3 2 (9.52%) SSL
3 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.52%) VLAN
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
3 2 (9.52%) Wireless
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (4.76%) DMVPN
4 1 (4.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Marketing
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) JavaScript Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Help Desk Operator
2 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (4.76%) Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Email Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) IT Support
3 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Project Management
3 5 (23.81%) API Development
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) CAFM
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Workflow
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Change Management
5 2 (9.52%) Data Privacy
5 2 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (9.52%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 5 (23.81%) PHP
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Criteo
2 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) Apple
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Marketo
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) VMware