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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 425 410
Rank change year-on-year -50 -15 +93
Contract jobs citing Advertising 103 140 197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.39% 0.44%
As % of the General category 0.45% 0.64% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 78 136
10th Percentile £212 £200 £206
25th Percentile £313 £275 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -15.29%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £641
90th Percentile £663 £600 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £505 £438
% change year-on-year +6.93% +15.43% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 19
10th Percentile £17.65 £23.96 £13.25
25th Percentile £26.00 £31.78 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +36.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £54.00 £56.72 £45.21
90th Percentile - £63.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £42.50 £14.03
% change year-on-year -57.65% +202.92% -64.48%

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 22,682 21,707 26,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.15% 60.09% 59.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,252 12,898 17,761
10th Percentile £275 £294 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
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 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.61% -2.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,444 788 1,123
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £18.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -13.28% +26.84%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £70.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.11 £26.00 £28.92
% change year-on-year -14.95% -10.11% +31.45%

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 5 December 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 5 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Top 10 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 5 December 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 -68 99 £425 +13.33% 211
London -29 75 £400 +12.68% 92
Work from Home -8 34 £488 +33.56% 120
UK excluding London -47 18 £540 +6.93% 182
South East -9 10 £375 -25.74% 75
South West -5 4 £630 - 19
West Midlands -26 3 £555 +0.91% 12
Midlands -29 3 £555 +0.91% 18
Yorkshire -32 1 - - 16
North of England -44 1 - - 37

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 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.91%) Confluence
3 2 (1.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.97%) SAS
4 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Adobe After Effects
1 5 (4.85%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.94%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (1.94%) InDesign
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.97%) Sketch
5 1 (0.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Endur
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.97%) Shopify
1 1 (0.97%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.80%) Google Analytics
1 7 (6.80%) SaaS
2 4 (3.88%) Azure
2 4 (3.88%) dbt
2 4 (3.88%) Figma
2 4 (3.88%) GCP
2 4 (3.88%) Vertex AI
3 3 (2.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (2.91%) Google Tag Manager
4 2 (1.94%) Asana
4 2 (1.94%) Facebook Ads
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.97%) BigCommerce
5 1 (0.97%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (0.97%) Intacct
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (0.97%) OCI
5 1 (0.97%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.97%) Serverless
5 1 (0.97%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) WebEx
2 4 (3.88%) HTTP
3 2 (1.94%) BGP
3 2 (1.94%) Firewall
3 2 (1.94%) IPsec
3 2 (1.94%) Network Security
3 2 (1.94%) OSPF
3 2 (1.94%) SSL
3 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.94%) VLAN
3 2 (1.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.88%) BigQuery
2 4 (3.88%) Tableau
3 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.94%) Metadata
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.97%) Big Data
5 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.97%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.97%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.85%) JIRA
2 4 (3.88%) MLflow
3 2 (1.94%) Git
4 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (46.60%) Marketing
2 35 (33.98%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.56%) Finance
5 13 (12.62%) Legal
6 9 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (6.80%) Retail
8 6 (5.83%) French Language
8 6 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.85%) Spanish Language
10 4 (3.88%) Games
10 4 (3.88%) Italian Language
10 4 (3.88%) Publishing
11 3 (2.91%) Banking
11 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.97%) Polish Language
13 1 (0.97%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 10 (9.71%) Marketing Manager
2 9 (8.74%) Analyst
3 8 (7.77%) Consultant
3 8 (7.77%) Senior
4 7 (6.80%) Product Manager
5 6 (5.83%) Designer
5 6 (5.83%) Technical Writer
6 5 (4.85%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.88%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.88%) Solutions Consultant
8 3 (2.91%) Developer
8 3 (2.91%) Senior Producer
8 3 (2.91%) Technical Consultant
9 2 (1.94%) Architect
9 2 (1.94%) Coordinator
9 2 (1.94%) Data Analyst
9 2 (1.94%) Digital Designer
9 2 (1.94%) Programme Manager
9 2 (1.94%) Senior Manager
9 2 (1.94%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) CSS
1 4 (3.88%) HTML
1 4 (3.88%) RESTful
2 2 (1.94%) React
3 1 (0.97%) .NET
3 1 (0.97%) ATL
3 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.97%) Next.js
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.97%) REST
3 1 (0.97%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Digital Media
2 8 (7.77%) Social Media
3 5 (4.85%) Marketing Technology
3 5 (4.85%) Motion Graphics
4 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.88%) Wiki
5 3 (2.91%) Animation
5 3 (2.91%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Mixed Reality
7 1 (0.97%) PropTech
7 1 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.97%) Android
3 1 (0.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.97%) OpenVMS
3 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.33%) Analytics
2 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (15.53%) Project Management
5 15 (14.56%) Agile
6 13 (12.62%) AI
7 12 (11.65%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (10.68%) B2B
8 11 (10.68%) Roadmaps
9 10 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (9.71%) Marketing Strategy
10 9 (8.74%) CRM
11 8 (7.77%) Customer Experience
11 8 (7.77%) Data Analysis
11 8 (7.77%) Product Marketing
12 7 (6.80%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (6.80%) Lead Generation
12 7 (6.80%) Storytelling
13 6 (5.83%) Data Science
13 6 (5.83%) Integrated Marketing
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.62%) SQL
2 5 (4.85%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.85%) Python
3 2 (1.94%) C#
3 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
3 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.97%) R
4 1 (0.97%) VB
4 1 (0.97%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.97%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.97%) CIPD
5 1 (0.97%) MCSA
5 1 (0.97%) MCSE
5 1 (0.97%) OCA
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.97%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) PMO
3 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.94%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.97%) Ansible
3 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Google
2 16 (15.53%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.77%) Adobe
4 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.85%) Facebook
5 5 (4.85%) HubSpot
5 5 (4.85%) Marketo
6 4 (3.88%) Oracle
7 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.94%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.94%) HP
8 2 (1.94%) Instagram
9 1 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.97%) Sage
9 1 (0.97%) SAP
9 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.97%) TikTok
9 1 (0.97%) VMware
9 1 (0.97%) YouTube