Advertising Contract Job Trends

Advertising
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 444 416
Rank change year-on-year -55 -28 -31
Contract jobs citing Advertising 175 115 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.58% 0.55% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 64 90
10th Percentile £263 £215 £200
25th Percentile £357 £274 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £390 £365
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +6.85% -18.89%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £497
90th Percentile £652 £574 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £315
% change year-on-year +9.20% +38.10% -21.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 8
10th Percentile £15.00 £23.60 £16.85
25th Percentile £15.25 £27.04 £27.93
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.75 £37.79
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -5.39% +2.07%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.00 £52.50
90th Percentile - - £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £39.68
% change year-on-year -31.82% -44.55% +64.97%

All General Skills
UK

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,223 20,950 22,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.69% 63.60% 57.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,737 12,987 13,281
10th Percentile £313 £275 £283
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,489 1,199 1,107
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.08
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -30.14% +30.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £48.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.22 £21.39 £35.36
% change year-on-year +41.28% -39.51% +34.70%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Advertising relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Advertising job vacancy trend in the UK

Advertising
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Advertising.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Advertising

Advertising
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advertising over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Advertising.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Advertising

Advertising
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Advertising over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
England -83 164 £445 +14.10% 1,048
London -70 105 £438 +30.60% 760
UK excluding London -59 58 £475 +9.20% 351
Work from Home -43 49 £413 +15.41% 344
South East -55 20 £543 +3.33% 108
South West -29 19 £618 - 47
North of England - 11 £413 - 77
North West - 8 £267 - 45
East of England - 5 £400 - 53
Midlands -46 2 £500 +14.94% 48
West Midlands -54 2 £500 +14.94% 28
North East - 2 - - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 30
Scotland - 1 £475 - 14

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.43%) CMS
3 4 (2.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.29%) InDesign
3 4 (2.29%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.71%) DaVinci Resolve
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.71%) NUKE
5 2 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.14%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (1.14%) Houdini
6 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.00%) SAP EHS
2 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.14%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.57%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.00%) Azure
2 11 (6.29%) AWS
3 8 (4.57%) Adobe Analytics
3 8 (4.57%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.57%) SaaS
4 7 (4.00%) GCP
4 7 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.86%) Google Ads
6 3 (1.71%) Google Analytics
6 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.71%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.71%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.14%) Facebook Ads
7 2 (1.14%) Google Drive
7 2 (1.14%) Meta Ads
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Advertising
7 2 (1.14%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) Broadband
2 5 (2.86%) Firewall
3 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.14%) DNS
4 2 (1.14%) VLAN
4 2 (1.14%) VPN
4 2 (1.14%) VSAN
5 1 (0.57%) BGP
5 1 (0.57%) OSPF
5 1 (0.57%) Profibus
5 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.57%) WAN
5 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.00%) Power BI
2 5 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.86%) Metadata
2 5 (2.86%) MySQL
2 5 (2.86%) Tableau
3 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.57%) Ataccama
4 1 (0.57%) Big Data
4 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.57%) Looker
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.57%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
1 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.57%) JIRA
1 1 (0.57%) Postman
1 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.71%) Marketing
3 28 (16.00%) Retail
4 26 (14.86%) Finance
5 17 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.14%) Publishing
7 7 (4.00%) Legal
8 6 (3.43%) Banking
8 6 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.29%) Billing
10 4 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.71%) Electronics
11 3 (1.71%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.14%) German Language
12 2 (1.14%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (10.86%) Senior
2 18 (10.29%) Sales Manager
3 17 (9.71%) Analyst
4 14 (8.00%) Architect
5 12 (6.86%) Lead
6 11 (6.29%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.71%) Developer
8 9 (5.14%) Consultant
9 8 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 5 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.86%) PPC Specialist
13 4 (2.29%) Administrator
13 4 (2.29%) Marketing Manager
13 4 (2.29%) Technical Manager
13 4 (2.29%) Technical Specialist
14 3 (1.71%) IT Sales Executive
14 3 (1.71%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.43%) Vue
2 5 (2.86%) CSS
2 5 (2.86%) HTML
2 5 (2.86%) Laravel
3 4 (2.29%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.14%) Plotly
4 2 (1.14%) REST
4 2 (1.14%) Terraform
4 2 (1.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.57%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.57%) Kafka
5 1 (0.57%) NumPy
5 1 (0.57%) Nuxt
5 1 (0.57%) Pandas
5 1 (0.57%) Quarkus
5 1 (0.57%) RESTful
5 1 (0.57%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.57%) SAML
5 1 (0.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.14%) Social Media
2 8 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.86%) Replication
6 4 (2.29%) Animation
6 4 (2.29%) Blog
6 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.71%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.71%) IoT
7 3 (1.71%) Life Science
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Photography
8 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.86%) Linux
1 5 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (1.14%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.14%) AI
2 29 (16.57%) Analytics
3 25 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (10.29%) Agile
6 15 (8.57%) Workflow
7 14 (8.00%) Project Management
8 13 (7.43%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (7.43%) Decision-Making
8 13 (7.43%) Digital Marketing
9 12 (6.86%) Translating Business Requirements
10 11 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (6.29%) CRM
10 11 (6.29%) Storytelling
11 9 (5.14%) B2B
11 9 (5.14%) Data Analysis
11 9 (5.14%) Migration
11 9 (5.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (5.14%) Thought Leadership
12 8 (4.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.71%) SQL
2 14 (8.00%) Python
3 9 (5.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.86%) Java
4 5 (2.86%) PHP
5 2 (1.14%) Go
5 2 (1.14%) R
5 2 (1.14%) Scala
6 1 (0.57%) LookML
6 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.86%) Degree
4 5 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.71%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.14%) PMP
7 1 (0.57%) APMP
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) ISEB
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) GDPR
2 8 (4.57%) QA
3 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.14%) PERC
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) PMO
5 1 (0.57%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.14%) vSphere
3 1 (0.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.14%) Ansible
3 2 (1.14%) SCCM
4 1 (0.57%) Argo
4 1 (0.57%) Control-M
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) Google
2 17 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.57%) SAP
4 13 (7.43%) Adobe
5 12 (6.86%) TikTok
6 4 (2.29%) Apple
6 4 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.71%) YouTube
8 2 (1.14%) Brandwatch
8 2 (1.14%) Facebook
8 2 (1.14%) Foundry
8 2 (1.14%) Informatica
8 2 (1.14%) NetBase
8 2 (1.14%) Pega
8 2 (1.14%) Snapchat
8 2 (1.14%) Sophos
8 2 (1.14%) Splunk
8 2 (1.14%) Tealium
8 2 (1.14%) VMware