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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 433 411
Rank change year-on-year -70 -22 -24
Contract jobs citing Advertising 182 118 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.57% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 64 86
10th Percentile £240 £215 £200
25th Percentile £360 £274 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £515 £497
90th Percentile £652 £574 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £358
% change year-on-year -1.04% +34.27% -10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 8
10th Percentile £14.73 £23.60 £16.85
25th Percentile £15.13 £27.04 £27.93
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.75 £37.79
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -5.39% +3.41%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.00 £52.50
90th Percentile - - £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £39.68
% change year-on-year -31.82% -44.55% +64.97%

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 30,644 20,748 21,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.86% 63.46% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,940 12,852 13,090
10th Percentile £313 £275 £283
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 £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,203 1,057
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £25.11 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.48% -28.26% +27.27%
75th Percentile £54.45 £47.12 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £70.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.04% -39.23% +27.27%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -53 169 £425 +8.97% 988
London -69 106 £425 +26.87% 672
UK excluding London -58 62 £475 -1.04% 393
Work from Home -51 51 £413 +23.16% 316
South East -48 22 £528 +0.48% 126
South West -20 19 £618 - 50
North of England - 10 £267 - 87
East of England - 7 £400 - 53
North West - 7 £120 - 45
West Midlands -41 2 £500 +14.94% 32
Midlands -50 2 £500 +14.94% 49
North East - 2 - - 8
Scotland - 2 £550 - 19
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 39

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 8 (4.40%) CMS
2 7 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.55%) SAS
6 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 6 (3.30%) InDesign
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.30%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.65%) DaVinci Resolve
3 3 (1.65%) NUKE
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.10%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (1.10%) Houdini
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.55%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.55%) Navisworks
5 1 (0.55%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.55%) Revit
5 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.85%) SAP EHS
2 6 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.55%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.55%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.69%) Azure
2 12 (6.59%) AWS
3 9 (4.95%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.40%) Adobe Analytics
5 7 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.30%) GCP
6 6 (3.30%) SaaS
7 5 (2.75%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.75%) Google Ads
8 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.65%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.65%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.10%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.10%) Google Drive
9 2 (1.10%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.10%) Meta Ads
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) Broadband
2 5 (2.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.10%) DNS
4 2 (1.10%) VLAN
4 2 (1.10%) VPN
4 2 (1.10%) VSAN
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%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.40%) Power BI
2 5 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.75%) Metadata
2 5 (2.75%) MySQL
2 5 (2.75%) Tableau
3 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.55%) Ataccama
4 1 (0.55%) Big Data
4 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.55%) Looker
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.55%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (1.10%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.55%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.55%) Postman
2 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.98%) Marketing
3 28 (15.38%) Retail
4 25 (13.74%) Finance
5 18 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (6.04%) Publishing
7 7 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.85%) Legal
8 6 (3.30%) Banking
8 6 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Billing
10 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.10%) Electronics
12 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.10%) Front Office
12 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (9.89%) Analyst
1 18 (9.89%) Sales Manager
1 18 (9.89%) Senior
2 14 (7.69%) Architect
2 14 (7.69%) Lead
3 10 (5.49%) Developer
3 10 (5.49%) Project Manager
4 8 (4.40%) Consultant
4 8 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.85%) Business Analyst
5 7 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (2.75%) Administrator
6 5 (2.75%) Data Engineer
6 5 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (2.75%) PPC Specialist
6 5 (2.75%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (2.20%) Marketing Manager
7 4 (2.20%) Marketing Specialist
7 4 (2.20%) Web Marketing Specialist
7 4 (2.20%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.30%) CSS
1 6 (3.30%) HTML
1 6 (3.30%) Vue
2 5 (2.75%) Laravel
3 4 (2.20%) SAP Basis
4 3 (1.65%) Terraform
5 2 (1.10%) Plotly
5 2 (1.10%) REST
6 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.55%) Kafka
6 1 (0.55%) NumPy
6 1 (0.55%) Nuxt
6 1 (0.55%) Pandas
6 1 (0.55%) Quarkus
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 (8.24%) Social Media
2 7 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
2 7 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.30%) Replication
4 5 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.20%) Animation
5 4 (2.20%) Blog
6 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
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%) IoT
7 2 (1.10%) Life Science
7 2 (1.10%) Photography
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.30%) Windows
2 5 (2.75%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (16.48%) AI
2 28 (15.38%) Analytics
3 27 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (10.44%) Agile
6 16 (8.79%) Workflow
7 14 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
8 13 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 13 (7.14%) Project Management
9 12 (6.59%) Actionable Insight
10 11 (6.04%) CRM
10 11 (6.04%) Digital Marketing
10 11 (6.04%) Storytelling
11 10 (5.49%) Change Management
11 10 (5.49%) Data Analysis
12 9 (4.95%) B2B
12 9 (4.95%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (4.95%) Migration
12 9 (4.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.34%) SQL
2 13 (7.14%) Python
3 9 (4.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.75%) PHP
5 4 (2.20%) Java
6 2 (1.10%) Go
6 2 (1.10%) R
6 2 (1.10%) Scala
7 1 (0.55%) LookML
7 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.04%) Degree
4 5 (2.75%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.10%) PMP
7 1 (0.55%) APMP
7 1 (0.55%) ISEB
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.04%) QA
2 9 (4.95%) GDPR
3 8 (4.40%) 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%) PERC
5 1 (0.55%) PMO
5 1 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.10%) vSphere
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.10%) Ansible
3 2 (1.10%) SCCM
4 1 (0.55%) Argo
4 1 (0.55%) Control-M
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (12.64%) Google
2 17 (9.34%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.79%) SAP
4 15 (8.24%) Adobe
5 11 (6.04%) TikTok
6 5 (2.75%) Apple
7 4 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.65%) YouTube
9 2 (1.10%) Foundry
9 2 (1.10%) Informatica
9 2 (1.10%) Intel
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle
9 2 (1.10%) Snapchat
9 2 (1.10%) Sophos
9 2 (1.10%) Splunk
9 2 (1.10%) VMware
10 1 (0.55%) BMC
10 1 (0.55%) Juniper
10 1 (0.55%) Sage