Digital Marketing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Marketing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Digital Marketing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital 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 183 211 255
Rank change year-on-year +28 +44 -15
Contract jobs citing Digital Marketing 161 200 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.26% 0.96% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.14% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 147 176
10th Percentile £205 £202 £200
25th Percentile £300 £263 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -6.36% +5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £644 £638
90th Percentile £700 £780 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 3
10th Percentile £17.32 £12.75 £25.75
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.38 £26.13
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -15.25% -
75th Percentile £23.50 £28.75 £39.25
90th Percentile £25.23 £60.00 £43.45
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.36% -35.29% +49.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital Marketing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Digital Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Marketing in the UK excluding London

Digital Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Marketing in the UK excluding London

Digital Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Marketing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Marketing in the UK excluding London

Digital Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Marketing in the UK excluding London

Digital Marketing
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 Digital Marketing within the UK excluding London 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
South East +61 82 £588 +186.59% 193
South West +12 38 £565 -6.61% 62
North of England +22 25 £528 +17.22% 156
North West +15 14 £530 -14.00% 93
North East - 10 £419 - 14
East of England +18 6 £500 +37.93% 52
Scotland +13 5 £450 -21.74% 24
Midlands +15 3 £183 -64.56% 83
West Midlands +11 2 £190 -65.92% 47
Northern Ireland -14 2 - - 3
East Midlands +6 1 £175 +29.63% 29
Yorkshire +3 1 £550 +22.22% 52
Digital Marketing
UK

Digital Marketing
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 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.86%) Confluence
2 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.24%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (1.24%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.39%) Azure
2 16 (9.94%) AWS
3 11 (6.83%) GCP
4 10 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 7 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.11%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.86%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.86%) Google Ads
8 3 (1.86%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.86%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.24%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.24%) Cohesity
9 2 (1.24%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (1.24%) Kong
9 2 (1.24%) PaaS
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) VPN
2 5 (3.11%) Firewall
3 4 (2.48%) DNS
3 4 (2.48%) LAN
4 3 (1.86%) DHCP
4 3 (1.86%) iSCSI
4 3 (1.86%) SAN
4 3 (1.86%) WAN
4 3 (1.86%) Wireless
5 2 (1.24%) IMAP
5 2 (1.24%) Network Security
5 2 (1.24%) Skype
5 2 (1.24%) SMTP
6 1 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.62%) Junos
6 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.62%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.11%) Power BI
4 4 (2.48%) Tableau
5 3 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.86%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.24%) Looker
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.62%) Metadata
7 1 (0.62%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (9.94%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.21%) Git
2 10 (6.21%) GitLab
2 10 (6.21%) Gradle
2 10 (6.21%) JUnit
2 10 (6.21%) Liquibase
2 10 (6.21%) Mockito
3 7 (4.35%) JIRA
3 7 (4.35%) Selenium
4 3 (1.86%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.24%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.24%) NUnit
5 2 (1.24%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.62%) Maven
6 1 (0.62%) Postman
6 1 (0.62%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 161 (100.00%) Marketing
2 131 (81.37%) Public Sector
3 130 (80.75%) Finance
4 129 (80.12%) Electronics
4 129 (80.12%) Manufacturing
4 129 (80.12%) Telecoms
5 34 (21.12%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Retail
8 3 (1.86%) Brand Awareness
9 2 (1.24%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Automotive
10 1 (0.62%) Avionics
10 1 (0.62%) Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.62%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (16.77%) Architect
2 21 (13.04%) Active Directory Architect
2 21 (13.04%) Support Engineer
3 17 (10.56%) Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (9.94%) Senior
5 11 (6.83%) Desktop Engineer
5 11 (6.83%) Desktop Support
5 11 (6.83%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Analyst
6 10 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Lead
7 8 (4.97%) IT Engineer
8 7 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (4.35%) Applications Support
8 7 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (4.35%) Azure Developer
8 7 (4.35%) Digital Executive
8 7 (4.35%) E-Commerce Executive
8 7 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.83%) .NET
1 11 (6.83%) OpenAPI
1 11 (6.83%) React
1 11 (6.83%) Swagger
2 10 (6.21%) CSS
2 10 (6.21%) HTML
2 10 (6.21%) Kafka
2 10 (6.21%) Spring
2 10 (6.21%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.48%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.48%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.86%) PySpark
5 2 (1.24%) Jest
5 2 (1.24%) Node.js
5 2 (1.24%) Playwright
5 2 (1.24%) pytest
5 2 (1.24%) Sass
5 2 (1.24%) YAML
6 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.62%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.32%) NHS
2 8 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.73%) Social Media
4 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.86%) Blog
6 3 (1.86%) LIMS
7 2 (1.24%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.24%) BYOD
7 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.24%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.24%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.24%) iPhone
7 2 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (29.19%) Windows
2 12 (7.45%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.73%) Linux
4 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.24%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Android
5 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (83.23%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (80.12%) Programme Management
3 49 (30.43%) Agile
4 40 (24.84%) Test Automation
5 31 (19.25%) CI/CD
6 29 (18.01%) DevOps
7 22 (13.66%) TDD
8 21 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
9 20 (12.42%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (12.42%) Software Engineering
10 18 (11.18%) Analytics
11 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (9.94%) E-Commerce
13 14 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (7.45%) Containerisation
14 12 (7.45%) CRM
14 12 (7.45%) Service Management
15 11 (6.83%) Email Marketing
15 11 (6.83%) User Experience
15 11 (6.83%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.63%) PowerShell
2 23 (14.29%) SQL
3 14 (8.70%) Java
4 13 (8.07%) Python
4 13 (8.07%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.21%) C#
7 7 (4.35%) Bash
8 3 (1.86%) Bicep
8 3 (1.86%) C++
9 2 (1.24%) Groovy
10 1 (0.62%) C
10 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 39 (24.22%) DV Cleared
3 36 (22.36%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.32%) Degree
5 7 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.48%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.24%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.24%) CISSP
7 2 (1.24%) CLAS
7 2 (1.24%) Dell Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ACCA
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.11%) JSP 440
1 5 (3.11%) QA
2 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.24%) NIST
3 2 (1.24%) RMADS
3 2 (1.24%) WCAG
4 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.62%) GDPR
4 1 (0.62%) MIL-STD-1553
4 1 (0.62%) PMO
4 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (15.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.94%) Docker
3 3 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.24%) NFS
4 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.35%) Terraform
3 4 (2.48%) Ansible
4 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.24%) Grafana
5 2 (1.24%) Puppet
5 2 (1.24%) vRealize
5 2 (1.24%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.62%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 129 (80.12%) SAP
2 13 (8.07%) Google
3 12 (7.45%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.97%) HP
5 6 (3.73%) Dell
6 5 (3.11%) VMware
7 4 (2.48%) Adobe
7 4 (2.48%) Cisco
8 3 (1.86%) Citrix
8 3 (1.86%) Databricks
8 3 (1.86%) Facebook
8 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.24%) IBM
9 2 (1.24%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.24%) NetApp
9 2 (1.24%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.24%) TikTok
10 1 (0.62%) Apple
10 1 (0.62%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.62%) YouTube