Marketing Job Trends in Manchester

Marketing
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 75 79
Rank change year-on-year +37 +4 +70
Permanent jobs citing Marketing 134 86 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.81% 3.18% 3.15%
As % of the General category 7.73% 4.65% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 99 35 54
10th Percentile £28,914 £33,250 £28,275
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,875 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +26.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £58,438
90th Percentile £78,750 £92,750 £65,000
North West median annual salary £40,000 £57,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -29.82% +20.00% -7.32%

All General Skills
Manchester

Marketing 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,733 1,851 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 62.25% 68.38% 57.20%
Number of salaries quoted 892 751 1,010
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,450
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,625 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £50,818 £50,652
% change year-on-year -6.53% +0.33% -3.52%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Marketing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Marketing
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Marketing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Marketing

Marketing
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Marketing in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Marketing in Manchester

Marketing
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford +8 5 £40,000 - 6
Cheadle - 4 £50,000 -
Rochdale - 3 £34,000 -
Bolton +16 1 £30,000 - 7
Altrincham - 1 - - 3
Marketing
North West

Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (4.48%) WordPress
2 3 (2.24%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (2.24%) Elementor
4 3 (2.24%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.49%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.75%) Sketch
6 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.49%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 33 (24.63%) SaaS
2 13 (9.70%) AWS
3 11 (8.21%) Azure
4 8 (5.97%) GCP
5 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.24%) Google Ads
6 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.75%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.75%) Figma
7 1 (0.75%) Firebase
7 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.75%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.75%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) NAS
2 1 (0.75%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.75%) SMS
2 1 (0.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.24%) Power BI
3 2 (1.49%) MySQL
3 2 (1.49%) Tableau
4 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (1.49%) GitLab
2 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.49%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) Gatling
3 1 (0.75%) JMeter
3 1 (0.75%) JUnit
3 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.75%) Maven
3 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 61 (45.52%) Social Skills
2 40 (29.85%) Finance
3 16 (11.94%) Retail
4 15 (11.19%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.72%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.72%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.97%) Electronics
6 8 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.48%) Advertising
8 6 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.73%) Legal
10 3 (2.24%) Banking
10 3 (2.24%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.24%) Dutch Language
11 2 (1.49%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (18.66%) Senior
2 14 (10.45%) Head of Finance
2 14 (10.45%) Marketing Executive
2 14 (10.45%) Marketing Manager
3 9 (6.72%) Developer
4 8 (5.97%) Product Manager
5 7 (5.22%) Analyst
6 6 (4.48%) Business Development Manager
6 6 (4.48%) Business Manager
6 6 (4.48%) Development Manager
6 6 (4.48%) Digital Marketing Manager
6 6 (4.48%) Senior Developer
6 6 (4.48%) Senior Marketing Executive
7 5 (3.73%) IT Support
7 5 (3.73%) Lead
7 5 (3.73%) PHP Developer
7 5 (3.73%) Product Marketing Manager
7 5 (3.73%) Senior PHP Developer
8 4 (2.99%) Data Engineer
8 4 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.22%) React
2 4 (2.99%) CSS
2 4 (2.99%) HTML
3 3 (2.24%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.24%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (2.24%) Laravel
3 3 (2.24%) Next.js
4 2 (1.49%) Node.js
4 2 (1.49%) RESTful
5 1 (0.75%) .NET
5 1 (0.75%) Django
5 1 (0.75%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.75%) JSR 170
5 1 (0.75%) OSGi
5 1 (0.75%) PySpark
5 1 (0.75%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.75%) Spring
5 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Social Media
2 8 (5.97%) Blog
3 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.73%) NHS
4 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.24%) Digital Signage
5 3 (2.24%) EPoS
5 3 (2.24%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.49%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Cybercrime
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) Life Science
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Windows
2 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (20.15%) Digital Marketing
2 23 (17.16%) B2B
3 16 (11.94%) AI
3 16 (11.94%) CRM
4 13 (9.70%) Agile
4 13 (9.70%) Business Development
5 12 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (8.21%) Customer Experience
7 10 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (6.72%) Customer Service
8 9 (6.72%) Decision-Making
8 9 (6.72%) E-Commerce
8 9 (6.72%) Mentoring
8 9 (6.72%) SEO
9 8 (5.97%) Clean Code
9 8 (5.97%) Programme Management
9 8 (5.97%) Roadmaps
10 7 (5.22%) Data Management
10 7 (5.22%) Digital Strategy
10 7 (5.22%) GTM Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.46%) SQL
2 9 (6.72%) Python
3 5 (3.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.73%) PHP
3 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.24%) Java
4 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.75%) C#
5 1 (0.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (16.42%) ACCA
1 22 (16.42%) CIMA
2 9 (6.72%) Degree
3 8 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.22%) DBS Check
5 6 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.49%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.24%) QA
2 2 (1.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.24%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.24%) cPanel
1 3 (2.24%) Plesk
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.72%) SAP
3 8 (5.97%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.22%) Adobe
5 6 (4.48%) HubSpot
6 5 (3.73%) Google
7 4 (2.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (2.99%) Sitecore
8 3 (2.24%) Cisco
8 3 (2.24%) Dell
8 3 (2.24%) LexisNexis
9 2 (1.49%) PayPal
9 2 (1.49%) Zoho
10 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.75%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle
10 1 (0.75%) VMware