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 13 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 415 431
Rank change year-on-year -69 +16 -29
Contract jobs citing Advertising 142 102 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.56% 0.56% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 60 95
10th Percentile £308 £248 £200
25th Percentile £368 £313 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £541 £550
90th Percentile £728 £616 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £475 £375
% change year-on-year -11.47% +26.67% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 14
10th Percentile £30.23 £26.07 £6.57
25th Percentile £41.25 £27.54 £14.88
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.75 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -10.06% -0.05%
75th Percentile £43.75 £48.81 £50.00
90th Percentile £51.05 £50.84 £63.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.15 - £15.11
% change year-on-year - - -64.87%

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 25,341 18,360 24,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.69% 63.35% 58.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,487 11,672 15,642
10th Percentile £306 £289 £275
25th Percentile £408 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,622 780 1,929
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.39 £17.31 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.30 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.48% -10.82%
75th Percentile £60.94 £56.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £24.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.04% -1.72%

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 13 May 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 13 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Top 13 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 13 May 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 -78 129 £428 +0.59% 266
London -65 73 £450 +20.00% 156
UK excluding London -60 55 £421 -11.47% 158
Work from Home -43 34 £423 +12.67% 138
South East -41 17 £461 +24.24% 56
North of England -59 17 £413 -36.46% 42
South West -25 11 £618 +7.39% 29
North West -26 11 £413 -36.46% 20
Midlands -57 6 £417 -4.08% 21
West Midlands -59 6 £417 -4.08% 13
Yorkshire - 6 £415 - 18
East of England - 3 £495 - 4
Scotland - 1 - - 3

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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) CICS
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.70%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.70%) InDesign
6 1 (0.70%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Sprinklr
2 7 (4.93%) SAP EHS
3 6 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.70%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.79%) SaaS
2 10 (7.04%) AWS
3 6 (4.23%) Azure
3 6 (4.23%) Figma
4 4 (2.82%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (2.82%) Google Analytics
4 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.11%) GCP
5 3 (2.11%) GitHub
5 3 (2.11%) Google Workspace
5 3 (2.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.41%) Facebook Ads
6 2 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.41%) Route 53
7 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.70%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.70%) Meta Ads
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) DNS
2 2 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (1.41%) DHCP
2 2 (1.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.70%) NAS
3 1 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) SAN
3 1 (0.70%) VLAN
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.52%) MySQL
3 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.82%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.82%) Oracle Database 12c
3 4 (2.82%) Power BI
4 3 (2.11%) Tableau
5 2 (1.41%) Metadata
6 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.70%) DataStage
6 1 (0.70%) IDMS
6 1 (0.70%) Looker
6 1 (0.70%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.41%) Claude Code
2 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.41%) Git
2 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.41%) Mocha
2 2 (1.41%) webpack
3 1 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.70%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.70%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.70%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.70%) Postman
3 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (30.28%) Marketing
2 35 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.01%) Finance
4 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.45%) Legal
6 11 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (7.75%) Retail
7 9 (6.34%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (4.23%) Public Speaking
10 5 (3.52%) Publishing
11 3 (2.11%) Banking
11 3 (2.11%) Electronics
11 3 (2.11%) French Language
11 3 (2.11%) Wearables
12 2 (1.41%) Billing
12 2 (1.41%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.70%) Danish Language
13 1 (0.70%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.70%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 15 (10.56%) Consultant
2 12 (8.45%) Developer
3 11 (7.75%) Analyst
3 11 (7.75%) Project Manager
3 11 (7.75%) Senior
4 8 (5.63%) Lead
4 8 (5.63%) Sales Manager
5 6 (4.23%) Designer
6 5 (3.52%) Architect
6 5 (3.52%) Business Analyst
6 5 (3.52%) Clinical Project Manager
6 5 (3.52%) Database Engineer
7 4 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Implementation Consultant
7 4 (2.82%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (2.82%) Product Manager
7 4 (2.82%) Products Support Manager
7 4 (2.82%) React Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Support Engineer
7 4 (2.82%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) Laravel
1 4 (2.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 4 (2.82%) React
1 4 (2.82%) SAP Basis
1 4 (2.82%) Vue
1 4 (2.82%) XML
2 2 (1.41%) .NET
2 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.41%) Enzyme
2 2 (1.41%) Jest
2 2 (1.41%) Node.js
2 2 (1.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.70%) CSS
3 1 (0.70%) DCOM
3 1 (0.70%) HTML
3 1 (0.70%) J2EE
3 1 (0.70%) Kafka
3 1 (0.70%) Next.js
3 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.70%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Self-Motivation
1 14 (9.86%) Social Media
2 12 (8.45%) Marketing Technology
3 10 (7.04%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.63%) Life Science
5 4 (2.82%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.41%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.41%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.41%) FMCG
6 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.41%) IoT
6 2 (1.41%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.41%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (1.41%) Video on Demand
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.93%) Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Unix
3 4 (2.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.70%) Solaris
4 1 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (16.90%) Agile
2 21 (14.79%) Analytics
3 20 (14.08%) AI
3 20 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (14.08%) Project Management
4 16 (11.27%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (8.45%) Digital Marketing
5 12 (8.45%) Migration
6 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (7.75%) Storytelling
7 10 (7.04%) Decision-Making
8 9 (6.34%) Data Analytics
8 9 (6.34%) Project Delivery
9 8 (5.63%) Biotechnology
9 8 (5.63%) Data Migration
9 8 (5.63%) Marketing Strategy
10 7 (4.93%) Ad Operations
10 7 (4.93%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (4.93%) CI/CD
10 7 (4.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.56%) SQL
2 13 (9.15%) Python
3 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.52%) Shell Script
3 5 (3.52%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.82%) Java
4 4 (2.82%) Korn
4 4 (2.82%) PHP
4 4 (2.82%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.70%) Bicep
6 1 (0.70%) C#
6 1 (0.70%) COBOL
6 1 (0.70%) Go
6 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.97%) Degree
4 6 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.82%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.82%) PMP
6 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) APMP
8 1 (0.70%) CAPM
8 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.70%) MBA
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.23%) QA
2 5 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.82%) GDPR
3 4 (2.82%) PERC
4 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.41%) PMO
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.82%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.41%) vSphere
3 1 (0.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.23%) Ansible
3 4 (2.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (2.82%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (2.82%) Terraform
4 2 (1.41%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.41%) PowerCLI
4 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.41%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (1.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.70%) Argo
5 1 (0.70%) Control-M
5 1 (0.70%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) vRealize
5 1 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (11.27%) Google
2 12 (8.45%) SAP
3 11 (7.75%) Adobe
4 10 (7.04%) TikTok
5 8 (5.63%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.63%) Oracle
5 8 (5.63%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.52%) Facebook
6 5 (3.52%) Instagram
6 5 (3.52%) Pinterest
6 5 (3.52%) Snapchat
6 5 (3.52%) Tealium
6 5 (3.52%) YouTube
7 4 (2.82%) Pega
8 3 (2.11%) Cisco
8 3 (2.11%) Splunk
8 3 (2.11%) VMware
9 2 (1.41%) IBM
9 2 (1.41%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.41%) Sage