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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 449 402
Rank change year-on-year -61 -47 -15
Contract jobs citing Advertising 181 109 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.52% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 59 90
10th Percentile £200 £212 £200
25th Percentile £347 £281 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £488
90th Percentile £638 £588 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £525 £358
% change year-on-year -21.43% +46.85% -15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 9
10th Percentile £13.21 £22.80 £16.85
25th Percentile £14.31 £26.70 £31.62
Median hourly rate £15.50 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.53% - +30.77%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.00 £48.75
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 30,759 20,913 22,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.39% 63.27% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,866 13,017 13,104
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £420 £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 £740 £738 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.66% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,720 1,230 965
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.57 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.19 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% -24.02% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £21.39 £31.97
% change year-on-year +28.56% -33.09% +21.79%

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 8 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 8 October 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 8 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 -36 167 £413 -2.92% 976
London -60 108 £425 +8.97% 663
UK excluding London -58 61 £413 -21.43% 380
Work from Home -56 48 £416 +16.45% 335
South East -49 23 £413 +7.49% 119
East of England - 11 £400 - 49
South West -31 10 £333 -47.22% 46
North of England - 10 £273 - 94
North West - 7 £120 - 52
Scotland - 5 £550 - 13
West Midlands -44 2 £500 - 31
Midlands -49 2 £500 - 49
North East - 2 - - 10
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 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 10 (5.52%) CMS
2 7 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.87%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.87%) Photoshop
3 6 (3.31%) InDesign
3 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.66%) DaVinci Resolve
4 3 (1.66%) NUKE
5 2 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.10%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (1.10%) Houdini
5 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.55%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.55%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.55%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.55%) Revit
6 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.55%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.73%) Azure
2 12 (6.63%) AWS
3 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.87%) Adobe Analytics
4 7 (3.87%) GCP
4 7 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.31%) Google Ads
6 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.21%) SaaS
8 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.66%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.66%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.10%) Canva
9 2 (1.10%) Google Drive
9 2 (1.10%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.10%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.10%) Meta Ads
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.87%) Broadband
2 5 (2.76%) Firewall
3 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.10%) DNS
4 2 (1.10%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) BGP
5 1 (0.55%) OSPF
5 1 (0.55%) Profibus
5 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.55%) VLAN
5 1 (0.55%) VSAN
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.42%) Power BI
2 6 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.31%) Tableau
3 4 (2.21%) Metadata
3 4 (2.21%) MySQL
4 2 (1.10%) Looker
4 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.55%) Ataccama
5 1 (0.55%) Big Data
5 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.55%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (1.66%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 54 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.20%) Marketing
3 30 (16.57%) Retail
4 25 (13.81%) Finance
5 22 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.39%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (6.63%) Publishing
8 8 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.31%) Banking
9 6 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.31%) Legal
9 6 (3.31%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.76%) Billing
11 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.10%) Electronics
12 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.10%) Front Office
12 2 (1.10%) German Language
12 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (10.50%) Analyst
1 19 (10.50%) Senior
2 18 (9.94%) Sales Manager
3 14 (7.73%) Architect
4 10 (5.52%) Administrator
5 8 (4.42%) Developer
5 8 (4.42%) Lead
5 8 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.87%) Business Analyst
6 7 (3.87%) Project Manager
7 6 (3.31%) Consultant
7 6 (3.31%) Data Engineer
8 5 (2.76%) Marketing Manager
8 5 (2.76%) PPC Specialist
8 5 (2.76%) Technical Specialist
8 5 (2.76%) Web Specialist
9 4 (2.21%) Strategy Analyst
9 4 (2.21%) Technical Manager
9 4 (2.21%) Web Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.87%) CSS
1 7 (3.87%) HTML
2 5 (2.76%) Vue
3 4 (2.21%) Laravel
4 3 (1.66%) REST
4 3 (1.66%) Terraform
5 2 (1.10%) Plotly
6 1 (0.55%) .NET
6 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.55%) Kafka
6 1 (0.55%) MIDP
6 1 (0.55%) NumPy
6 1 (0.55%) Nuxt
6 1 (0.55%) Pandas
6 1 (0.55%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.55%) RESTful
6 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.55%) SAML
6 1 (0.55%) Swagger
6 1 (0.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Social Media
2 9 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.87%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.87%) Marketing Technology
3 7 (3.87%) Replication
3 7 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.21%) Animation
5 4 (2.21%) Blog
6 3 (1.66%) NHS
7 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.10%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.10%) IoT
7 2 (1.10%) Photography
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.31%) Windows
2 4 (2.21%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (17.13%) AI
2 29 (16.02%) Analytics
2 29 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (11.05%) Agile
5 18 (9.94%) Workflow
6 16 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (8.29%) Translating Business Requirements
8 12 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (6.63%) CRM
8 12 (6.63%) Data Analysis
8 12 (6.63%) Storytelling
9 10 (5.52%) B2B
9 10 (5.52%) Change Management
9 10 (5.52%) Customer Service
9 10 (5.52%) Decision-Making
9 10 (5.52%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (5.52%) Project Management
10 8 (4.42%) Machine Learning
10 8 (4.42%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.94%) SQL
2 13 (7.18%) Python
3 10 (5.52%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.21%) PHP
5 3 (1.66%) Java
5 3 (1.66%) R
5 3 (1.66%) Scala
6 2 (1.10%) Go
7 1 (0.55%) LookML
7 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (7.18%) Degree
2 10 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.21%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.55%) HNC
7 1 (0.55%) HND
7 1 (0.55%) ISEB
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.55%) PhD
7 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.55%) PMP
7 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) GDPR
2 10 (5.52%) QA
3 9 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) PMO
5 1 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.10%) Ansible
3 2 (1.10%) Grafana
3 2 (1.10%) SCCM
4 1 (0.55%) Control-M
4 1 (0.55%) Kibana
4 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.71%) Google
3 16 (8.84%) Adobe
4 10 (5.52%) TikTok
5 6 (3.31%) Apple
5 6 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.31%) SAP
6 4 (2.21%) YouTube
7 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.10%) Foundry
8 2 (1.10%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.10%) Informatica
8 2 (1.10%) Intel
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle
8 2 (1.10%) Snapchat
8 2 (1.10%) Sophos
8 2 (1.10%) Splunk
9 1 (0.55%) BMC
9 1 (0.55%) Juniper
9 1 (0.55%) Sage