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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 451 405
Rank change year-on-year -54 -46 -3
Contract jobs citing Advertising 195 110 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the General category 0.62% 0.52% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 60 87
10th Percentile £202 £212 £200
25th Percentile £350 £262 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £488
90th Percentile £638 £588 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £384 £400
% change year-on-year +9.12% -4.06% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 10
10th Percentile £13.17 £22.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £13.50 £26.35 £31.78
Median hourly rate £15.50 £41.08 £42.79
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -4.00% +36.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - - £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% -48.24% +202.92%

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 31,386 21,013 22,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.76% 63.28% 58.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,231 13,114 13,043
10th Percentile £313 £275 £280
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £649
90th Percentile £740 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £478
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,247 919
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.59 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.30 £17.08
Median hourly rate £27.38 £25.00 £32.28
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -22.55% +8.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £44.42 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.10 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.08 £21.39 £30.00
% change year-on-year +26.59% -28.70% +11.11%

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 15 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 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Advertising in the UK

Advertising
Top 15 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 15 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 -55 179 £413 +0.02% 411
London -52 114 £423 +15.75% 311
UK excluding London -44 69 £419 +9.12% 119
Work from Home -53 52 £413 +23.16% 139
South East -54 24 £413 +70.10% 30
East of England - 13 £400 - 9
North of England - 12 £425 - 30
South West -30 10 £333 -47.22% 26
North West - 9 £323 - 17
Scotland - 7 £550 - 2
Midlands -46 3 £500 - 18
West Midlands -43 2 £500 - 10
North East - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 12
East Midlands - 1 - - 8

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 11 (5.64%) CMS
2 7 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.62%) Photoshop
3 8 (4.10%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (3.08%) InDesign
6 3 (1.54%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (1.54%) NUKE
6 3 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.03%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (1.03%) Houdini
8 1 (0.51%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.51%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.51%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.51%) Revit
8 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) Unica
2 1 (0.51%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.18%) Azure
2 12 (6.15%) AWS
3 10 (5.13%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.59%) Adobe Analytics
4 7 (3.59%) GCP
4 7 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.08%) Google Ads
6 5 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.05%) SaaS
8 3 (1.54%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.54%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.54%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.03%) Canva
9 2 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.03%) Google Drive
9 2 (1.03%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.03%) Meta Ads
9 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Advertising
9 2 (1.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) Broadband
2 5 (2.56%) Firewall
3 3 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.03%) DNS
4 2 (1.03%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) BGP
5 1 (0.51%) OSPF
5 1 (0.51%) Profibus
5 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
5 1 (0.51%) VSAN
5 1 (0.51%) WAN
5 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.62%) Power BI
2 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.08%) Tableau
3 5 (2.56%) Metadata
4 4 (2.05%) MySQL
5 2 (1.03%) Looker
5 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.51%) Big Data
6 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.51%) EDMS
6 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.51%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (1.54%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 59 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.08%) Marketing
3 33 (16.92%) Retail
4 29 (14.87%) Finance
5 24 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (6.15%) Publishing
8 8 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.59%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.08%) Banking
10 6 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.08%) Legal
10 6 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.56%) Billing
12 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.03%) German Language
12 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (10.77%) Senior
2 19 (9.74%) Analyst
3 18 (9.23%) Sales Manager
4 14 (7.18%) Architect
5 13 (6.67%) Administrator
6 9 (4.62%) Lead
7 8 (4.10%) Developer
7 8 (4.10%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.59%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.08%) Consultant
9 6 (3.08%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.56%) Marketing Manager
10 5 (2.56%) PPC Specialist
10 5 (2.56%) Technical Specialist
10 5 (2.56%) Web Specialist
11 4 (2.05%) Digital Marketing Manager
11 4 (2.05%) Strategy Analyst
11 4 (2.05%) Web Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.59%) CSS
1 7 (3.59%) HTML
2 5 (2.56%) Vue
3 4 (2.05%) Laravel
4 3 (1.54%) REST
4 3 (1.54%) Terraform
5 2 (1.03%) Plotly
6 1 (0.51%) .NET
6 1 (0.51%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.51%) MIDP
6 1 (0.51%) NumPy
6 1 (0.51%) Nuxt
6 1 (0.51%) Pandas
6 1 (0.51%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.51%) RESTful
6 1 (0.51%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.51%) SAML
6 1 (0.51%) Swagger
6 1 (0.51%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.21%) Social Media
2 11 (5.64%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.59%) Marketing Technology
4 7 (3.59%) Replication
5 5 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.05%) Animation
6 4 (2.05%) Blog
7 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.54%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.54%) NHS
7 3 (1.54%) Photography
8 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.03%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.03%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.03%) IoT
8 2 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.08%) Windows
2 4 (2.05%) Linux
3 2 (1.03%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (16.41%) AI
1 32 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (15.38%) Analytics
3 27 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (10.77%) Agile
5 20 (10.26%) Workflow
6 17 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
8 13 (6.67%) CRM
8 13 (6.67%) Data Analysis
9 12 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (6.15%) Project Management
9 12 (6.15%) Storytelling
10 11 (5.64%) Change Management
10 11 (5.64%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (5.13%) B2B
11 10 (5.13%) Customer Service
11 10 (5.13%) Decision-Making
12 9 (4.62%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (4.62%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.23%) SQL
2 14 (7.18%) Python
3 10 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.05%) PHP
5 3 (1.54%) Java
5 3 (1.54%) R
5 3 (1.54%) Scala
6 2 (1.03%) Go
7 1 (0.51%) LookML
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.69%) Degree
2 10 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.54%) HNC
6 3 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.03%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.03%) HND
7 2 (1.03%) PMP
8 1 (0.51%) ISEB
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
8 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.15%) GDPR
2 10 (5.13%) QA
3 9 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) PMO
5 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.03%) Ansible
3 2 (1.03%) Grafana
3 2 (1.03%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) Control-M
4 1 (0.51%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.31%) Google
3 17 (8.72%) Adobe
4 10 (5.13%) TikTok
5 8 (4.10%) SAP
6 7 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.08%) Apple
8 4 (2.05%) YouTube
9 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.03%) Foundry
10 2 (1.03%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.03%) Informatica
10 2 (1.03%) Intel
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle
10 2 (1.03%) Snapchat
10 2 (1.03%) Sophos
10 2 (1.03%) Splunk
11 1 (0.51%) BMC
11 1 (0.51%) Cisco
11 1 (0.51%) Juniper