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 1 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 443 403
Rank change year-on-year -62 -40 -10
Contract jobs citing Advertising 181 114 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.54% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 61 90
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £350 £275 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £488
90th Percentile £652 £588 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -11.90% +31.25% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 9
10th Percentile £13.53 £22.80 £16.85
25th Percentile £15.00 £26.70 £31.62
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% - +16.31%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - - £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% -48.24% +123.21%

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 30,797 20,995 22,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.09% 63.51% 58.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,960 13,047 13,078
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £420 £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 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,644 1,219 1,011
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.16
Median hourly rate £28.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.32% -28.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.27 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £21.39 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.58% -38.89% +30.69%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -42 168 £425 +6.25% 982
London -65 107 £425 +24.09% 671
UK excluding London -51 61 £463 -11.90% 388
Work from Home -49 49 £413 +23.16% 327
South East -46 22 £438 +14.01% 114
South West -22 16 £618 -1.98% 56
North of England - 9 £120 - 89
East of England - 9 £400 - 47
North West - 6 £120 - 51
Scotland - 3 £550 - 19
West Midlands -38 2 £500 - 34
Midlands -49 2 £500 - 50
North East - 2 - - 9
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 35

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 9 (4.97%) CMS
2 7 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (3.31%) InDesign
3 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.31%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.66%) DaVinci Resolve
4 3 (1.66%) NUKE
5 2 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.10%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (1.10%) Houdini
6 1 (0.55%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.55%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.55%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.55%) Revit
6 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.31%) SAP EHS
2 2 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.55%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.73%) Azure
2 13 (7.18%) AWS
3 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.87%) Adobe Analytics
4 7 (3.87%) GCP
4 7 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.76%) Google Ads
6 4 (2.21%) SaaS
7 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.66%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.66%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.10%) Google Drive
8 2 (1.10%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.10%) Meta Ads
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Advertising
8 2 (1.10%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) Broadband
2 5 (2.76%) Firewall
3 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.10%) DNS
4 2 (1.10%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) BGP
5 1 (0.55%) OSPF
5 1 (0.55%) Profibus
5 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.55%) VLAN
5 1 (0.55%) VSAN
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.42%) Power BI
2 6 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.31%) Tableau
3 5 (2.76%) MySQL
4 4 (2.21%) Metadata
5 2 (1.10%) Looker
5 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.55%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.55%) Big Data
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.55%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (1.66%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 53 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.55%) Marketing
3 29 (16.02%) Retail
4 25 (13.81%) Finance
5 19 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (6.63%) Publishing
8 8 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.31%) Banking
9 6 (3.31%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.76%) Billing
10 5 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.76%) Legal
11 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.10%) German Language
13 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (10.50%) Analyst
1 19 (10.50%) Senior
2 18 (9.94%) Sales Manager
3 14 (7.73%) Architect
4 13 (7.18%) Lead
5 9 (4.97%) Developer
5 9 (4.97%) Project Manager
6 8 (4.42%) Administrator
6 8 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.87%) Business Analyst
7 7 (3.87%) Consultant
8 6 (3.31%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (2.76%) PPC Specialist
9 5 (2.76%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (2.76%) Web Specialist
10 4 (2.21%) Senior Strategy Analyst
10 4 (2.21%) Strategy Analyst
10 4 (2.21%) Web Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.87%) CSS
1 7 (3.87%) HTML
2 6 (3.31%) Vue
3 5 (2.76%) Laravel
4 3 (1.66%) REST
4 3 (1.66%) Terraform
5 2 (1.10%) Plotly
6 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.55%) Kafka
6 1 (0.55%) MIDP
6 1 (0.55%) NumPy
6 1 (0.55%) Nuxt
6 1 (0.55%) Pandas
6 1 (0.55%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.55%) RESTful
6 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.55%) SAML
6 1 (0.55%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.55%) Swagger
6 1 (0.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.73%) Social Media
2 7 (3.87%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.87%) Replication
3 6 (3.31%) Marketing Technology
3 6 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.21%) Animation
5 4 (2.21%) Blog
6 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.10%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.10%) IoT
6 2 (1.10%) NHS
6 2 (1.10%) Photography
6 2 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.31%) Windows
2 5 (2.76%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (16.57%) AI
2 29 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (14.92%) Analytics
4 25 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (11.05%) Agile
6 18 (9.94%) Workflow
7 15 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (8.29%) Translating Business Requirements
8 12 (6.63%) Storytelling
9 11 (6.08%) CRM
9 11 (6.08%) Data Analysis
9 11 (6.08%) Project Management
10 10 (5.52%) Change Management
10 10 (5.52%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (5.52%) Decision-Making
11 9 (4.97%) B2B
11 9 (4.97%) Digital Marketing
11 9 (4.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (4.42%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.94%) SQL
2 13 (7.18%) Python
3 10 (5.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.76%) PHP
5 3 (1.66%) Java
5 3 (1.66%) R
5 3 (1.66%) Scala
6 2 (1.10%) Go
7 1 (0.55%) LookML
7 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.63%) Degree
1 12 (6.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.21%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.10%) PMP
6 1 (0.55%) APMP
6 1 (0.55%) ISEB
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.55%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.55%) PhD
6 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) QA
2 9 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.97%) GDPR
3 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) PMO
4 1 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.10%) Ansible
3 2 (1.10%) Grafana
3 2 (1.10%) SCCM
4 1 (0.55%) Control-M
4 1 (0.55%) Kibana
4 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (12.15%) Google
2 20 (11.05%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.29%) Adobe
4 11 (6.08%) SAP
5 10 (5.52%) TikTok
6 6 (3.31%) Apple
7 4 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.66%) YouTube
9 2 (1.10%) Foundry
9 2 (1.10%) Informatica
9 2 (1.10%) Intel
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle
9 2 (1.10%) Snapchat
9 2 (1.10%) Sophos
9 2 (1.10%) Splunk
10 1 (0.55%) BMC
10 1 (0.55%) Cisco
10 1 (0.55%) Juniper
10 1 (0.55%) Sage