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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 443 431
Rank change year-on-year -55 -12 -41
Contract jobs citing Advertising 177 120 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.60% 0.58% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 68 88
10th Percentile £263 £228 £200
25th Percentile £338 £300 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £415 £375
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +10.60% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £521 £500
90th Percentile £652 £579 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £435 £295
% change year-on-year +6.32% +47.33% -30.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 11
10th Percentile £15.00 £23.60 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.00 £27.04 £31.94
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.75 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -17.01% -9.32%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - - £50.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £48.48
% change year-on-year -31.82% -54.62% +30.93%

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 29,557 20,661 22,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.16% 63.52% 57.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,441 12,839 13,661
10th Percentile £313 £275 £291
25th Percentile £418 £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 £741 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,305 1,166 1,210
10th Percentile £13.77 £13.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £16.80 £16.17 £17.12
Median hourly rate £31.10 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.20 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.53 £22.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year +42.98% -38.75% +38.46%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -54 168 £440 +6.09% 839
London -50 106 £438 +30.11% 599
UK excluding London -64 60 £463 +6.32% 296
Work from Home -57 46 £413 -5.15% 253
South East -52 22 £528 +0.48% 67
South West -25 19 £618 +7.39% 61
North of England -65 13 £413 - 71
North West -39 11 £413 - 41
West Midlands -52 3 £456 +4.83% 31
Midlands -60 3 £456 +4.83% 53
East of England - 2 £413 - 30
North East - 1 - - 10
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 25
Scotland - 1 £475 - 6

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 7 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.26%) CMS
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.26%) InDesign
5 4 (2.26%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.69%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (1.69%) NUKE
7 2 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.13%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (1.13%) Houdini
8 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.95%) SAP EHS
2 6 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.26%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.56%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.91%) Azure
2 13 (7.34%) SaaS
3 12 (6.78%) AWS
4 8 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.95%) GCP
5 7 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.39%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (2.26%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.26%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.69%) Google Ads
8 3 (1.69%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.69%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.13%) Canva
9 2 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.13%) Facebook Ads
9 2 (1.13%) GitHub
9 2 (1.13%) Google Drive
9 2 (1.13%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.13%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) Broadband
1 5 (2.82%) Firewall
2 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.13%) DNS
3 2 (1.13%) VLAN
3 2 (1.13%) VPN
3 2 (1.13%) VSAN
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) OSPF
4 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.95%) Power BI
2 6 (3.39%) Tableau
3 5 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.82%) MySQL
3 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.26%) Metadata
5 1 (0.56%) Big Data
5 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.56%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (1.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.56%) Mocha
2 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 48 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.03%) Marketing
3 33 (18.64%) Finance
4 27 (15.25%) Retail
5 19 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.78%) Legal
7 11 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (5.08%) Publishing
9 8 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.95%) Banking
11 6 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.82%) Public Speaking
13 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.26%) Electronics
13 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.26%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.69%) Billing
14 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
15 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
15 2 (1.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 21 (11.86%) Senior
2 18 (10.17%) Sales Manager
3 16 (9.04%) Analyst
4 14 (7.91%) Consultant
4 14 (7.91%) Project Manager
5 12 (6.78%) Architect
6 11 (6.21%) Developer
6 11 (6.21%) Lead
7 7 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.39%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.82%) Clinical Project Manager
9 5 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (2.26%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.26%) Implementation Consultant
10 4 (2.26%) Marketing Manager
10 4 (2.26%) PPC Specialist
10 4 (2.26%) Technical Manager
11 3 (1.69%) Strategy Analyst
11 3 (1.69%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.82%) Laravel
1 5 (2.82%) Vue
2 4 (2.26%) SAP Basis
2 4 (2.26%) XML
3 3 (1.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (1.13%) CSS
4 2 (1.13%) HTML
4 2 (1.13%) Plotly
4 2 (1.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.56%) .NET
5 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.56%) ATL
5 1 (0.56%) DCOM
5 1 (0.56%) Enzyme
5 1 (0.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.56%) Jest
5 1 (0.56%) Node.js
5 1 (0.56%) NumPy
5 1 (0.56%) Quarkus
5 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.04%) Social Media
2 12 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.08%) Marketing Technology
4 8 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.82%) Life Science
6 4 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.26%) Animation
6 4 (2.26%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.26%) Blog
6 4 (2.26%) IoT
6 4 (2.26%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.69%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.69%) Replication
8 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.13%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.13%) Photography
8 2 (1.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.82%) Linux
1 5 (2.82%) Windows
2 2 (1.13%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (15.25%) AI
1 27 (15.25%) Analytics
2 24 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (10.73%) Agile
5 17 (9.60%) Project Management
6 14 (7.91%) Migration
7 13 (7.34%) Actionable Insight
7 13 (7.34%) Digital Marketing
7 13 (7.34%) Storytelling
7 13 (7.34%) Workflow
8 12 (6.78%) Decision-Making
9 11 (6.21%) CRM
10 9 (5.08%) Machine Learning
10 9 (5.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (4.52%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (4.52%) Data Analytics
11 8 (4.52%) Marketing Strategy
11 8 (4.52%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.86%) SQL
2 15 (8.47%) Python
3 8 (4.52%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.39%) Java
5 5 (2.82%) PHP
6 4 (2.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.56%) Go
8 1 (0.56%) Korn
8 1 (0.56%) LookML
8 1 (0.56%) R
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (9.60%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) Degree
4 7 (3.95%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) PMP
7 1 (0.56%) APMP
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) ISEB
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) MBA
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) GDPR
2 6 (3.39%) QA
3 4 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.26%) PERC
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) PMO
4 1 (0.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.13%) vSphere
3 1 (0.56%) Docker
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.13%) Ansible
3 2 (1.13%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Control-M
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (13.56%) Google
2 19 (10.73%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.04%) TikTok
4 13 (7.34%) SAP
5 11 (6.21%) Adobe
6 5 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.26%) Pega
7 4 (2.26%) Tealium
8 3 (1.69%) Facebook
8 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.69%) Snapchat
8 3 (1.69%) YouTube
9 2 (1.13%) Brandwatch
9 2 (1.13%) Foundry
9 2 (1.13%) Instagram
9 2 (1.13%) Oracle
9 2 (1.13%) Pinterest
9 2 (1.13%) Sophos
9 2 (1.13%) Splunk
9 2 (1.13%) VMware