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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 436 409
Rank change year-on-year -71 -27 -19
Contract jobs citing Advertising 179 117 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.56% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 68 89
10th Percentile £263 £218 £200
25th Percentile £341 £297 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £402 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +7.27% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £500
90th Percentile £652 £575 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £435 £295
% change year-on-year +7.76% +47.33% -26.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 9
10th Percentile £15.00 £23.60 £16.85
25th Percentile £15.25 £27.04 £31.62
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.75 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -17.01% +1.35%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.00 £50.71
90th Percentile - - £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £48.48
% change year-on-year -31.82% -54.62% +101.56%

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 30,189 20,828 22,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.42% 63.61% 57.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,788 12,892 13,343
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £419 £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 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,378 1,179 1,137
10th Percentile £13.64 £13.50 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.17 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £38.07
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -33.94% +38.44%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.74 £21.40 £38.12
% change year-on-year +43.68% -43.87% +46.62%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -55 168 £435 +8.14% 772
London -69 104 £435 +29.85% 535
UK excluding London -61 62 £469 +7.76% 306
Work from Home -68 49 £413 -5.15% 237
South East -52 23 £528 +0.48% 79
South West -30 19 £618 - 52
North of England - 13 £413 - 75
North West - 10 £413 - 43
East of England - 4 £400 - 37
West Midlands -51 2 £500 +14.94% 25
Midlands -55 2 £500 +14.94% 49
North East - 2 - - 7
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 29
Scotland - 1 £475 - 11

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 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.79%) CMS
3 3 (1.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.23%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.23%) InDesign
5 4 (2.23%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.68%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (1.68%) 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 (3.91%) SAP EHS
2 6 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.68%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.56%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.82%) Azure
2 12 (6.70%) AWS
3 11 (6.15%) SaaS
4 8 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.91%) Adobe Analytics
5 7 (3.91%) GCP
5 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.79%) Google Ads
7 4 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.68%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.68%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.68%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.12%) Facebook Ads
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub
9 2 (1.12%) Google Drive
9 2 (1.12%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Advertising
9 2 (1.12%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) Broadband
2 5 (2.79%) Firewall
3 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.12%) DNS
4 2 (1.12%) VLAN
4 2 (1.12%) VPN
4 2 (1.12%) VSAN
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) OSPF
5 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.56%) WAN
5 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.91%) Power BI
2 6 (3.35%) Tableau
3 5 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.79%) Metadata
3 5 (2.79%) MySQL
3 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.56%) Ataccama
4 1 (0.56%) Big Data
4 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.56%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
1 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
1 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
1 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.56%) JIRA
1 1 (0.56%) Mocha
1 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 51 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.35%) Marketing
3 30 (16.76%) Finance
4 27 (15.08%) Retail
5 21 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (6.15%) Legal
8 9 (5.03%) Publishing
9 8 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.91%) Banking
11 6 (3.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.79%) Public Speaking
13 4 (2.23%) Electronics
13 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.23%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.68%) Billing
14 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
15 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (11.73%) Senior
2 18 (10.06%) Sales Manager
3 16 (8.94%) Analyst
4 14 (7.82%) Consultant
5 13 (7.26%) Project Manager
6 12 (6.70%) Architect
6 12 (6.70%) Lead
7 11 (6.15%) Developer
8 7 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.35%) Business Analyst
10 5 (2.79%) Clinical Project Manager
10 5 (2.79%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.79%) PPC Specialist
11 4 (2.23%) Administrator
11 4 (2.23%) Implementation Consultant
11 4 (2.23%) Marketing Manager
11 4 (2.23%) Technical Manager
12 3 (1.68%) IT Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.79%) Laravel
1 5 (2.79%) Vue
2 4 (2.23%) SAP Basis
2 4 (2.23%) XML
3 3 (1.68%) CSS
3 3 (1.68%) HTML
3 3 (1.68%) Unity (Game Engine)
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%) DCOM
5 1 (0.56%) Enzyme
5 1 (0.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.56%) Jest
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.56%) Pandas
5 1 (0.56%) Quarkus
5 1 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.94%) Social Media
2 11 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.47%) Marketing Technology
4 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.79%) Life Science
6 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.23%) Animation
6 4 (2.23%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.23%) Blog
6 4 (2.23%) IoT
6 4 (2.23%) Replication
6 4 (2.23%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Photography
8 2 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
1 5 (2.79%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.20%) AI
1 29 (16.20%) Analytics
2 24 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (10.06%) Agile
5 16 (8.94%) Project Management
6 14 (7.82%) Actionable Insight
6 14 (7.82%) Workflow
7 13 (7.26%) Decision-Making
7 13 (7.26%) Digital Marketing
7 13 (7.26%) Migration
8 12 (6.70%) Storytelling
9 11 (6.15%) CRM
10 10 (5.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (5.03%) B2B
11 9 (5.03%) Machine Learning
11 9 (5.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (5.03%) Thought Leadership
11 9 (5.03%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (4.47%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.73%) SQL
2 15 (8.38%) Python
3 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.35%) Java
5 5 (2.79%) PHP
6 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.12%) 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 16 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.82%) Degree
2 14 (7.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.91%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.79%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.12%) PMP
6 1 (0.56%) APMP
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) ISEB
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) MBA
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.56%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.47%) GDPR
2 7 (3.91%) QA
3 6 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.68%) PERC
5 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.12%) 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 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.12%) Ansible
3 2 (1.12%) 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 (13.41%) Google
2 20 (11.17%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.82%) SAP
3 14 (7.82%) TikTok
4 11 (6.15%) Adobe
5 5 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.68%) Apple
6 3 (1.68%) Pega
6 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.68%) Snapchat
6 3 (1.68%) Tealium
6 3 (1.68%) YouTube
7 2 (1.12%) Brandwatch
7 2 (1.12%) Facebook
7 2 (1.12%) Foundry
7 2 (1.12%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) NetBase
7 2 (1.12%) Sophos
7 2 (1.12%) Splunk
7 2 (1.12%) VMware