Marketing Consultant Contracts

Marketing Consultant
UK

The median Marketing Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 589 708
Rank change year-on-year +76 +119 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Marketing Consultant 6 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.027% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £573
25th Percentile £513 £350 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £538 - £656
90th Percentile - £575 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £575
% change year-on-year - -26.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Marketing Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Marketing Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Marketing Consultant in the UK

Marketing Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Marketing Consultant in the UK

Marketing Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Marketing Consultant in the UK

Marketing Consultant
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +58 6 £525 +5.00% 9
London +32 4 £525 -12.50% 9
Work from Home +51 3 £525 +5.00% 4
UK excluding London +51 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Marketing Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Marketing Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Marketing Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Marketing
2 5 (83.33%) Marketing Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Marketing Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) CRM
3 4 (66.67%) Salesforce
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) PMP
4 3 (50.00%) PMI Certification
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Data Management
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Customer Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
4 3 (50.00%) Product Marketing
4 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (50.00%) Marketo
5 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) CSS
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) HTML
6 1 (16.67%) Law

Marketing Consultant Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 6 (100.00%) Marketing
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Police
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Marketing Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) CRM
2 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Marketing Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Product Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing Mix
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (50.00%) PMP
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 3 (50.00%) Marketo
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud