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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 424 414
Rank change year-on-year -46 -10 +72
Contract jobs citing Advertising 109 141 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.48% 0.65% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 75 139
10th Percentile £213 £216 £204
25th Percentile £313 £275 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £539 £481 £638
90th Percentile £648 £600 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £458 £438
% change year-on-year +21.31% +4.57% -18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 22
10th Percentile £17.30 £31.62 £13.55
25th Percentile £22.00 £35.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £43.08 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% +37.84% -16.67%
75th Percentile £54.00 £62.25 £50.30
90th Percentile - £63.75 £64.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £52.50 £14.03
% change year-on-year -65.71% +274.20% -73.15%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,592 21,553 27,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.98% 59.07% 59.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,137 12,709 18,375
10th Percentile £274 £288 £285
25th Percentile £400 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,476 811 1,113
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.89 £17.44 £16.92
Median hourly rate £24.09 £29.00 £31.45
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% -7.79% +25.80%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £58.48
90th Percentile £69.82 £70.25 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £27.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.38% -1.36% +25.00%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Top 8 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 21 November 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
England -44 104 £450 +20.00% 402
London -35 81 £400 +9.59% 231
Work from Home -7 34 £500 +29.03% 208
UK excluding London -38 17 £555 +21.31% 222
South East +1 11 £525 +3.96% 90
South West +3 3 £630 - 37
West Midlands -21 3 £555 +15.63% 9
Midlands -28 3 £555 +15.63% 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 8 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.92%) SAS
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Adobe After Effects
1 5 (4.59%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.83%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (1.83%) InDesign
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.92%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.92%) Sketch
5 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Endur
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.92%) Shopify
1 1 (0.92%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.26%) GCP
2 8 (7.34%) dbt
2 8 (7.34%) Vertex AI
3 7 (6.42%) Google Analytics
3 7 (6.42%) SaaS
4 5 (4.59%) Azure
5 3 (2.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Figma
5 3 (2.75%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.83%) Asana
6 2 (1.83%) AWS
6 2 (1.83%) Facebook Ads
6 2 (1.83%) Google Ads
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.92%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.92%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.92%) MailChimp
7 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) WebEx
2 5 (4.59%) HTTP
3 2 (1.83%) BGP
3 2 (1.83%) Firewall
3 2 (1.83%) IPsec
3 2 (1.83%) Network Security
3 2 (1.83%) OSPF
3 2 (1.83%) SSL
3 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.83%) VLAN
3 2 (1.83%) VPN
4 1 (0.92%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (7.34%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.67%) Tableau
4 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) Metadata
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) Big Data
6 1 (0.92%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.92%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.34%) MLflow
2 5 (4.59%) JIRA
3 2 (1.83%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) Babel
4 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 53 (48.62%) Marketing
2 39 (35.78%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.68%) Finance
5 13 (11.93%) Legal
6 9 (8.26%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (7.34%) Retail
8 7 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.67%) French Language
9 4 (3.67%) Italian Language
9 4 (3.67%) Publishing
9 4 (3.67%) Spanish Language
10 3 (2.75%) Automotive
10 3 (2.75%) Banking
10 3 (2.75%) Games
10 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.92%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 11 (10.09%) Product Manager
2 10 (9.17%) Analyst
2 10 (9.17%) Marketing Manager
3 9 (8.26%) Senior
4 7 (6.42%) Consultant
5 6 (5.50%) Business Analyst
5 6 (5.50%) Designer
5 6 (5.50%) Technical Writer
6 5 (4.59%) Developer
7 4 (3.67%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.75%) Architect
8 3 (2.75%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.75%) Senior Producer
8 3 (2.75%) Solutions Consultant
8 3 (2.75%) Technical Consultant
9 2 (1.83%) Account Manager
9 2 (1.83%) Product Marketing Manager
9 2 (1.83%) Senior Manager
9 2 (1.83%) Senior Project Manager
9 2 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) CSS
2 4 (3.67%) HTML
2 4 (3.67%) RESTful
3 2 (1.83%) React
4 1 (0.92%) .NET
4 1 (0.92%) ATL
4 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.92%) Jest
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.92%) Redux
4 1 (0.92%) REST
4 1 (0.92%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Digital Media
2 9 (8.26%) Marketing Technology
2 9 (8.26%) Social Media
3 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Motion Graphics
5 4 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.67%) Wiki
6 3 (2.75%) Animation
6 3 (2.75%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Mixed Reality
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.92%) PropTech
8 1 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Android
3 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.92%) OpenVMS
3 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.94%) Analytics
2 23 (21.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (15.60%) Agile
5 16 (14.68%) AI
6 15 (13.76%) Project Management
6 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
7 13 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (11.93%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (10.09%) B2B
8 11 (10.09%) CRM
8 11 (10.09%) Data Science
9 9 (8.26%) Customer Experience
9 9 (8.26%) Machine Learning
9 9 (8.26%) Marketing Strategy
9 9 (8.26%) Product Management
9 9 (8.26%) Product Roadmap
9 9 (8.26%) Product Vision
9 9 (8.26%) Programmatic Advertising
10 8 (7.34%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.93%) SQL
2 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.59%) Python
4 2 (1.83%) C#
4 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.92%) BrightScript
5 1 (0.92%) Java
5 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.92%) R
5 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.92%) VB
5 1 (0.92%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.92%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (5.50%) Degree
1 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.83%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.92%) CIPD
4 1 (0.92%) MCSA
4 1 (0.92%) MCSE
4 1 (0.92%) OCA
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.92%) SnowPro
4 1 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.83%) GDPR
1 2 (1.83%) QA
1 2 (1.83%) SLA
2 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.83%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.92%) Ansible
3 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Google
2 15 (13.76%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.34%) Adobe
4 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.59%) HubSpot
5 5 (4.59%) Marketo
6 4 (3.67%) Facebook
6 4 (3.67%) Oracle
7 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.83%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.83%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.83%) HP
8 2 (1.83%) YouTube
9 1 (0.92%) Criteo
9 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.92%) Roku
9 1 (0.92%) Sage
9 1 (0.92%) SAP
9 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.92%) TikTok