Digital Marketing Contracts

Digital Marketing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Digital Marketing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 358 324
Rank change year-on-year +85 -34 -85
Contract jobs citing Digital Marketing 365 369 718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 292 572
10th Percentile £205 £205 £271
25th Percentile £350 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £692 £638 £644
90th Percentile £825 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +8.57% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 4
10th Percentile £12.75 £43.85 £15.48
25th Percentile £16.80 £51.50 £18.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £62.50 £28.38
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +120.23% -5.40%
75th Percentile £34.06 £63.75 £39.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £66.75 £42.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year -41.18% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Marketing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Digital Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Marketing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Marketing.

Daily rate trend for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Marketing.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 +69 341 £475 -9.52% 517
UK excluding London +11 173 £570 +8.57% 347
London +130 153 £475 -9.52% 172
Work from Home +68 113 £450 -14.29% 277
South East +11 67 £205 - 87
South West -31 57 £650 +8.33% 26
North of England +36 16 £450 -1.64% 112
East of England +15 14 £350 -37.78% 36
North West +25 10 £463 +1.09% 64
Midlands +19 7 £600 -7.69% 79
Scotland +42 6 £575 -19.30% 13
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 3
Yorkshire - 6 £450 - 39
East Midlands - 4 - - 45
West Midlands +1 3 £600 -7.69% 36

Digital Marketing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.11%) CMS
3 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.10%) Confluence
4 4 (1.10%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.10%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.82%) InDesign
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.27%) InVision
7 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) FastStats
2 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.27%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 44 (12.05%) Azure
2 25 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.29%) AWS
6 11 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.74%) Google Analytics
7 10 (2.74%) PaaS
8 9 (2.47%) SaaS
9 6 (1.64%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.64%) IaaS
10 5 (1.37%) ChatGPT
11 4 (1.10%) GCP
11 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.10%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.82%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 3 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.82%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) Firewall
1 8 (2.19%) VPN
2 7 (1.92%) 3G
2 7 (1.92%) 4G
2 7 (1.92%) FTP
3 6 (1.64%) HTTP
3 6 (1.64%) Internet
4 5 (1.37%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.10%) LAN
5 4 (1.10%) Wireless
6 3 (0.82%) Network Security
6 3 (0.82%) SSH
6 3 (0.82%) SSL
6 3 (0.82%) WAN
7 2 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.55%) DNS
7 2 (0.55%) SAN
8 1 (0.27%) ISDN
8 1 (0.27%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.12%) Metadata
2 21 (5.75%) Data Vault
2 21 (5.75%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.11%) Metadata Repository
4 14 (3.84%) Power BI
4 14 (3.84%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
6 7 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.64%) Ingres
7 6 (1.64%) Pentaho
7 6 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (1.64%) QlikView
7 6 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.37%) GIS
8 5 (1.37%) Tableau
9 4 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.82%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.01%) JIRA
2 5 (1.37%) ERwin
3 4 (1.10%) Git
4 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.82%) NUnit
4 3 (0.82%) Postman
4 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) GoCD
6 1 (0.27%) MSI
6 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 365 (100.00%) Marketing
2 276 (75.62%) Manufacturing
3 272 (74.52%) Finance
4 271 (74.25%) Public Sector
5 269 (73.70%) Telecoms
6 267 (73.15%) Electronics
7 86 (23.56%) Social Skills
8 38 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (3.56%) Retail
11 11 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.47%) German Language
12 9 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.92%) Advertising
13 7 (1.92%) Publishing
14 6 (1.64%) Legal
15 5 (1.37%) French Language
16 4 (1.10%) Games
16 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 59 (16.16%) Architect
2 42 (11.51%) Project Manager
3 35 (9.59%) Lead
4 27 (7.40%) Data Architect
4 27 (7.40%) Senior
4 27 (7.40%) Support Engineer
5 24 (6.58%) Consultant
6 22 (6.03%) Analyst
7 16 (4.38%) Chief Architect
7 16 (4.38%) Chief Data Architect
8 15 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (3.84%) Desktop Engineer
9 14 (3.84%) Desktop Support
9 14 (3.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 13 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.56%) Business Manager
10 13 (3.56%) Developer
11 11 (3.01%) Development Manager
12 10 (2.74%) DBA
12 10 (2.74%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.19%) .NET
2 7 (1.92%) HTML
3 6 (1.64%) AngularJS
3 6 (1.64%) CSS
4 5 (1.37%) LDAP
4 5 (1.37%) RESTful
5 3 (0.82%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.82%) Hugging Face
5 3 (0.82%) LangChain
5 3 (0.82%) Playwright
5 3 (0.82%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.55%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.55%) Sass
7 1 (0.27%) Node.js
7 1 (0.27%) NumPy
7 1 (0.27%) OSGi
7 1 (0.27%) REST
7 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.27%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.27%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.41%) NHS
2 21 (5.75%) Reference Data
3 14 (3.84%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (3.56%) Social Media
5 11 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.19%) LIMS
6 8 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.19%) Over-the-Top Content
6 8 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.64%) FMCG
7 6 (1.64%) Replication
8 5 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.37%) Wiki
9 4 (1.10%) Animation
9 4 (1.10%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.10%) Graphic Design
9 4 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.15%) Windows
2 20 (5.48%) Linux
3 17 (4.66%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.10%) Unix
5 4 (1.10%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (75.34%) Business Intelligence
2 267 (73.15%) Programme Management
3 67 (18.36%) Agile
4 42 (11.51%) Project Management
5 34 (9.32%) Analytics
5 34 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (7.67%) Data Modelling
8 27 (7.40%) Data Architecture
9 25 (6.85%) Data Strategy
9 25 (6.85%) User Experience
10 24 (6.58%) Data Integration
11 23 (6.30%) CRM
11 23 (6.30%) DevOps
11 23 (6.30%) Scrum
12 22 (6.03%) Data Governance
12 22 (6.03%) Project Delivery
13 21 (5.75%) SEO
13 21 (5.75%) UML
14 20 (5.48%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.49%) SQL
2 20 (5.48%) Python
3 19 (5.21%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.29%) C#
5 10 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.92%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.55%) Bash
9 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.55%) Java
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) Bicep
10 1 (0.27%) C
10 1 (0.27%) C++
10 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 109 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.88%) DV Cleared
4 34 (9.32%) Degree
5 10 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.37%) CESG Certified Professional
6 5 (1.37%) CISSP
7 4 (1.10%) CLAS
7 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.10%) PMP
7 4 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (0.82%) APMG
8 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.55%) CCNP
9 2 (0.55%) CIMA
9 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.55%) MBA
9 2 (0.55%) PhD
9 2 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.93%) GDPR
2 12 (3.29%) PMO
3 8 (2.19%) HL7
4 7 (1.92%) SLA
5 5 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.37%) JSP 440
5 5 (1.37%) QA
5 5 (1.37%) RMADS
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 14 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.64%) NFS
3 5 (1.37%) Docker
3 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.10%) HDFS
5 3 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (1.10%) Puppet
2 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.82%) Progress Chef
2 3 (0.82%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
3 2 (0.55%) Nessus
3 2 (0.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) SCOM
4 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.27%) vRealize
4 1 (0.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (0.27%) VxRail
4 1 (0.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 267 (73.15%) SAP
2 58 (15.89%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.84%) Sparx
4 11 (3.01%) Adobe
5 9 (2.47%) Google
5 9 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.19%) Dell
6 8 (2.19%) Oracle
7 7 (1.92%) VMware
8 6 (1.64%) Cisco
8 6 (1.64%) Informatica
9 4 (1.10%) Computacenter
9 4 (1.10%) ESRI
9 4 (1.10%) Isilon
9 4 (1.10%) Optimizely
9 4 (1.10%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.10%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud