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 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 433 423
Rank change year-on-year -69 -10 -33
Contract jobs citing Advertising 178 126 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the General category 0.60% 0.61% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 71 90
10th Percentile £263 £220 £200
25th Percentile £324 £300 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £514 £524
90th Percentile £652 £575 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £435 £295
% change year-on-year +5.57% +47.33% -32.51%
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 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -24.74% -
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 29,505 20,771 22,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.01% 63.48% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,438 12,920 13,838
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £415 £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 £745 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.89% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,281 1,174 1,263
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.46 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £16.80
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +27.47%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.90 £70.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £22.14 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.53% -36.74% +34.62%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -61 168 £430 +7.50% 300
London -59 107 £430 +28.36% 165
UK excluding London -46 60 £459 +5.57% 172
Work from Home -61 44 £413 -5.15% 110
South East -58 21 £488 -7.14% 38
South West -29 18 £618 +7.39% 36
North of England -58 15 £413 - 38
North West -38 12 £413 - 20
Midlands -58 2 £516 +18.51% 31
West Midlands -64 2 £516 +18.51% 19
Scotland - 2 £475 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 15
East of England - 2 £413 - 17
North East - 1 - - 7

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 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.69%) CMS
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.25%) InDesign
5 4 (2.25%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.69%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (1.69%) NUKE
7 2 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.12%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (1.12%) Houdini
8 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.93%) SAP EHS
2 6 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.37%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.56%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.87%) Azure
1 14 (7.87%) SaaS
2 11 (6.18%) AWS
3 9 (5.06%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.93%) GCP
4 7 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.81%) Google Analytics
6 4 (2.25%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (2.25%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.69%) Google Ads
7 3 (1.69%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.69%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.12%) Canva
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.12%) Facebook Ads
8 2 (1.12%) GitHub
8 2 (1.12%) Google Drive
8 2 (1.12%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.12%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) Broadband
1 5 (2.81%) Firewall
2 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) VLAN
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) VSAN
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
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 8 (4.49%) Power BI
2 7 (3.93%) Tableau
3 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.81%) MySQL
5 4 (2.25%) Metadata
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) Looker
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (1.12%) 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 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.03%) Marketing
3 33 (18.54%) Finance
4 27 (15.17%) Retail
5 20 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.87%) Legal
7 12 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.49%) Banking
8 8 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.49%) Publishing
9 6 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.81%) Public Speaking
11 4 (2.25%) Electronics
11 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.69%) Billing
12 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (11.80%) Senior
2 17 (9.55%) Analyst
2 17 (9.55%) Sales Manager
3 14 (7.87%) Consultant
3 14 (7.87%) Project Manager
4 12 (6.74%) Architect
5 11 (6.18%) Developer
5 11 (6.18%) Lead
6 7 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.37%) Business Analyst
8 5 (2.81%) Clinical Project Manager
8 5 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (2.25%) Implementation Consultant
9 4 (2.25%) Marketing Manager
9 4 (2.25%) PPC Specialist
9 4 (2.25%) Support Engineer
9 4 (2.25%) Technical Manager
10 3 (1.69%) Service Desk Analyst
10 3 (1.69%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.81%) Laravel
1 5 (2.81%) Vue
2 4 (2.25%) SAP Basis
2 4 (2.25%) XML
3 3 (1.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (1.12%) Plotly
4 2 (1.12%) Terraform
5 1 (0.56%) .NET
5 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.56%) ATL
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%) Pandas
5 1 (0.56%) Quarkus
5 1 (0.56%) React
5 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Social Media
2 13 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.62%) Marketing Technology
4 9 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.81%) Life Science
6 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.25%) Animation
6 4 (2.25%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.25%) IoT
6 4 (2.25%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.69%) Blog
7 3 (1.69%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.12%) Photography
8 2 (1.12%) Podcast
8 2 (1.12%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.37%) Linux
1 6 (3.37%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Unix
2 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (14.61%) Analytics
1 26 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (14.04%) AI
3 19 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (10.11%) Agile
5 17 (9.55%) Project Management
6 14 (7.87%) Actionable Insight
6 14 (7.87%) Digital Marketing
6 14 (7.87%) Migration
6 14 (7.87%) Storytelling
7 12 (6.74%) Decision-Making
8 11 (6.18%) CRM
8 11 (6.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (6.18%) Workflow
9 9 (5.06%) Data Analytics
9 9 (5.06%) Machine Learning
10 8 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (4.49%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (4.49%) Marketing Strategy
10 8 (4.49%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.80%) SQL
2 16 (8.99%) Python
3 6 (3.37%) Java
3 6 (3.37%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.81%) PHP
5 4 (2.25%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.12%) Korn
8 1 (0.56%) Go
8 1 (0.56%) LookML
8 1 (0.56%) R
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.30%) Degree
4 7 (3.93%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) PMP
7 1 (0.56%) APMP
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
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 (4.49%) GDPR
2 6 (3.37%) QA
3 4 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.25%) PERC
4 2 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) PMO
5 1 (0.56%) PSD2
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.69%) vSphere
3 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Docker
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Ansible
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.12%) PowerCLI
3 2 (1.12%) SCCM
3 2 (1.12%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Control-M
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) vRealize
4 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (14.04%) Google
2 18 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.55%) TikTok
4 13 (7.30%) SAP
5 9 (5.06%) Adobe
6 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.25%) Pega
7 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.25%) Snapchat
7 4 (2.25%) Tealium
8 3 (1.69%) Facebook
8 3 (1.69%) Pinterest
8 3 (1.69%) Splunk
8 3 (1.69%) VMware
8 3 (1.69%) YouTube
9 2 (1.12%) Brandwatch
9 2 (1.12%) Cisco
9 2 (1.12%) Instagram
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle
9 2 (1.12%) Sophos