Marketing Strategy Contracts

Marketing Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Marketing Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Marketing Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 526 623
Rank change year-on-year +37 +97 +189
Contract jobs citing Marketing Strategy 67 36 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.092% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.11% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 30
10th Percentile £217 £221 £224
25th Percentile £300 £341 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -28.21%
75th Percentile £500 £481 £469
90th Percentile £575 £548 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £450 £340
% change year-on-year +20.56% +32.35% -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £25.20 £30.38 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £34.69 £37.34
Median hourly rate £29.00 £43.75 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -33.71% +9.84% -4.02%
75th Percentile £35.38 £52.19 £42.32
90th Percentile £38.60 £56.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Marketing Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,981 33,385 47,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,763 21,485 32,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 1,871 1,564
10th Percentile £14.17 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%

Marketing Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Marketing Strategy in the UK

Marketing Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Marketing Strategy in the UK

Marketing Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing Strategy over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing Strategy in the UK

Marketing Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Marketing Strategy in the UK

Marketing Strategy
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 Marketing Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 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 +47 60 £413 +3.13% 502
London +34 45 £407 +1.81% 335
Work from Home +40 20 £273 -31.88% 208
UK excluding London +7 15 £543 +20.56% 192
North of England -7 5 £543 +48.63% 53
South West +29 4 £613 +2.08% 12
South East +24 2 £263 -34.38% 87
Midlands -8 2 £550 -8.33% 18
North East - 2 - - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £543 - 22
North West 0 1 - - 27
West Midlands -6 1 £550 -8.33% 11
Scotland - 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 - - 11
East Midlands - 1 - - 7

Marketing Strategy
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 1 (1.49%) Apache
1 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.49%) CMS
1 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.49%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.43%) AWS
2 7 (10.45%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.96%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) Google Analytics
5 4 (5.97%) GitHub
5 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.48%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.99%) Azure
7 2 (2.99%) Facebook Ads
7 2 (2.99%) Google Ads
7 2 (2.99%) SaaS
7 2 (2.99%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.49%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.49%) Contentsquare
8 1 (1.49%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) DNS
1 4 (5.97%) HTTP
2 2 (2.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) Tableau
3 1 (1.49%) Looker
3 1 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Git
2 4 (5.97%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.97%) Vite
2 4 (5.97%) webpack
3 1 (1.49%) MLflow
General
1 67 (100.00%) Marketing
2 30 (44.78%) Social Skills
3 22 (32.84%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.91%) Finance
5 9 (13.43%) Advertising
6 7 (10.45%) Brand Awareness
6 7 (10.45%) Retail
7 5 (7.46%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.97%) Banking
8 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.99%) Automotive
9 2 (2.99%) French Language
9 2 (2.99%) German Language
9 2 (2.99%) Legal
9 2 (2.99%) Social Science
10 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.49%) Games
10 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Marketing Manager
2 9 (13.43%) Senior
3 5 (7.46%) Senior Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Account Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Consultant
4 4 (5.97%) E-Commerce Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (5.97%) Marketing Consultant
4 4 (5.97%) Product Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Product Marketing Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Senior Marketing Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Web Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) Automation Consultant
5 3 (4.48%) Lead
5 3 (4.48%) Marketing Automation Consultant
5 3 (4.48%) Marketing Director
5 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Consultant
6 2 (2.99%) Architect
6 2 (2.99%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) CSS
1 5 (7.46%) HTML
1 5 (7.46%) Next.js
2 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
2 4 (5.97%) GatsbyJS
2 4 (5.97%) HTML5
2 4 (5.97%) Jest
2 4 (5.97%) Parceljs
2 4 (5.97%) React
2 4 (5.97%) React Native
2 4 (5.97%) Sass
2 4 (5.97%) Vue
3 3 (4.48%) ATL
4 2 (2.99%) Middleware
5 1 (1.49%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.49%) Kafka
5 1 (1.49%) MACH
5 1 (1.49%) OAuth
5 1 (1.49%) Pandas
5 1 (1.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Social Media
2 5 (7.46%) Digital Media
2 5 (7.46%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (5.97%) Blog
4 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.99%) Digital Signage
5 2 (2.99%) Life Science
5 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.99%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.49%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.49%) iPad
6 1 (1.49%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Digital Marketing
2 24 (35.82%) Analytics
3 18 (26.87%) B2B
4 17 (25.37%) CRM
5 16 (23.88%) Marketing Automation
5 16 (23.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (19.40%) Decision-Making
7 12 (17.91%) Project Management
7 12 (17.91%) SEO
8 11 (16.42%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (16.42%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (16.42%) Product Marketing
9 10 (14.93%) B2B Marketing
10 9 (13.43%) Business Strategy
10 9 (13.43%) E-Commerce
11 8 (11.94%) Data-Driven Marketing
11 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.45%) Agile
12 7 (10.45%) Data Management
12 7 (10.45%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.43%) SQL
2 5 (7.46%) Python
2 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
3 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) R
5 1 (1.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) PMI Certification
2 3 (4.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.97%) WCAG
3 3 (4.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Salesforce
2 13 (19.40%) Google
3 9 (13.43%) Facebook
4 8 (11.94%) Adobe
5 5 (7.46%) Instagram
6 4 (5.97%) Amplitude
6 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.48%) Marketo
7 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (2.99%) TikTok
9 1 (1.49%) Apple
9 1 (1.49%) Databricks
9 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.49%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.49%) IBM
9 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.49%) Samsung
9 1 (1.49%) SAP
9 1 (1.49%) Screaming Frog
9 1 (1.49%) Zoho