Marketing Job Trends in Scotland

Marketing
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Marketing over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 95 15
Rank change year-on-year +40 -80 +43
Permanent jobs citing Marketing 110 43 683
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.75% 1.79% 16.82%
As % of the General category 6.82% 2.56% 23.31%
Number of salaries quoted 35 15 72
10th Percentile £27,050 £32,300 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,125 £45,625 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £74,674 £78,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% -21.74%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,613 1,677 2,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 55.05% 69.73% 72.15%
Number of salaries quoted 640 694 1,546
10th Percentile £25,600 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,813 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £67,053
90th Percentile £80,025 £94,700 £81,250
UK median annual salary £53,719 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.47% +9.09% -10.57%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Marketing job vacancy trend in Scotland

Marketing
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Marketing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Marketing

Marketing
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Marketing in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Marketing in Scotland

Marketing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Edinburgh +33 57 £73,656 +103.19% 9
Glasgow +11 22 £35,000 -46.15% 7
Stirling - 9 - -
West Lothian - 7 - -
North Lanarkshire -10 3 - -
Lanarkshire - 3 - - 3
Midlothian - 1 - - 8
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Marketing
UK

Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (10.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.91%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.45%) Azure
2 22 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (9.09%) GitHub
3 10 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 10 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.27%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.45%) SaaS
5 6 (5.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (24.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (7.27%) Power BI
1 8 (7.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (24.55%) GitLab
1 27 (24.55%) Jenkins
1 27 (24.55%) SonarQube
2 12 (10.91%) JIRA
3 6 (5.45%) Storybook
General
1 49 (44.55%) Finance
2 35 (31.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
4 27 (24.55%) Games
5 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
7 9 (8.18%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (7.27%) Advertising
9 6 (5.45%) Local Government
9 6 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
10 5 (4.55%) Police
11 4 (3.64%) Electronics
11 4 (3.64%) Fire and Rescue
11 4 (3.64%) Multimedia
11 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
12 3 (2.73%) Billing
12 3 (2.73%) French Language
12 3 (2.73%) Greek Language
12 3 (2.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (24.55%) Architect
2 25 (22.73%) Salesforce Architect
3 14 (12.73%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 14 (12.73%) Technical Architect
4 12 (10.91%) Analyst
5 7 (6.36%) Account Manager
5 7 (6.36%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 7 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (4.55%) Business Development Director
7 5 (4.55%) Development Director
7 5 (4.55%) Digital Account Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Procurement Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Field Support Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) IT Support
8 4 (3.64%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Sales Executive
8 4 (3.64%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (33.64%) Lightning Web Components
1 37 (33.64%) REST
1 37 (33.64%) SOAP
2 27 (24.55%) Visualforce
3 6 (5.45%) JSON
3 6 (5.45%) JSON-LD
3 6 (5.45%) Next.js
3 6 (5.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 52 (47.27%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.73%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (10.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (10.91%) Onboarding
4 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.45%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.64%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.64%) Social Media
7 3 (2.73%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.82%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.55%) Agile
1 49 (44.55%) DevOps
2 44 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (39.09%) CI/CD
4 36 (32.73%) Coaching
5 33 (30.00%) OO
6 28 (25.45%) AI
6 28 (25.45%) Asset Management
7 27 (24.55%) Community of Practice
7 27 (24.55%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 27 (24.55%) Continuous Delivery
7 27 (24.55%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (24.55%) Design Patterns
7 27 (24.55%) Event-Driven
7 27 (24.55%) PLM
7 27 (24.55%) Roadmaps
7 27 (24.55%) Scrum
7 27 (24.55%) Static Code Analysis
7 27 (24.55%) Technical Analysis
7 27 (24.55%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 37 (33.64%) Apex Code
2 27 (24.55%) SOQL
2 27 (24.55%) SOSL
3 8 (7.27%) Python
3 8 (7.27%) SQL
4 6 (5.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (8.18%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.36%) CFA
3 5 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.64%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.27%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.45%) WCAG
3 4 (3.64%) SLA
4 2 (1.82%) PERC
Vendors
1 37 (33.64%) Salesforce
2 27 (24.55%) Splunk
3 8 (7.27%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) Adobe
5 1 (0.91%) Aquila