Advertising Job Trends in Birmingham

Advertising
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Advertising in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Advertising over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 102 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing Advertising 7 28 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.40% 1.55% 0.74%
As % of the General category 0.79% 2.31% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 7
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,125 £26,850
25th Percentile £44,375 £50,938 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,375 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,500 -
West Midlands median annual salary £38,875 £57,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year -32.39% +31.43% -17.06%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Advertising falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 881 1,213 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.63% 67.24% 57.52%
Number of salaries quoted 591 503 659
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £57,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +7.98% -3.18%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,875 £65,568
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £80,014
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +6.06% -5.71%

Advertising
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Advertising relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Advertising job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Advertising
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Advertising.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Advertising

Advertising
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Advertising in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Advertising in Birmingham

Advertising
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible