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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 99 17
Rank change year-on-year +39 -82 +42
Permanent jobs citing Marketing 94 42 457
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.45% 1.59% 14.91%
As % of the General category 5.99% 2.33% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 33 13 61
10th Percentile £25,203 £26,300 £25,000
25th Percentile - £38,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £80,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 - £72,433
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -13.04%

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 1,569 1,804 2,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 57.51% 68.15% 75.28%
Number of salaries quoted 652 735 1,384
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £31,968
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £54,891 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,810 £92,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.44%

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 5 January 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 5 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
Edinburgh +28 52 £67,500 +125.00% 16
Glasgow +23 25 £35,000 -53.33% 20
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian - 3 - -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 4
North Lanarkshire -14 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 5
Dunbartonshire - 1 - - 1
Fife - 1 - - 1
Aberdeen - 1 - - 8
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 (12.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.06%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (1.06%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.79%) Azure
2 22 (23.40%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (10.64%) GitHub
3 10 (10.64%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (10.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 10 (10.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.51%) Snowflake
5 6 (6.38%) Serverless
6 3 (3.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (8.51%) Power BI
1 8 (8.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) GitLab
1 15 (15.96%) Jenkins
1 15 (15.96%) SonarQube
2 12 (12.77%) JIRA
3 6 (6.38%) Storybook
General
1 43 (45.74%) Finance
2 32 (34.04%) Social Skills
3 25 (26.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (15.96%) Games
6 10 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (10.64%) Public Sector
7 7 (7.45%) Police
8 6 (6.38%) Local Government
9 5 (5.32%) Advertising
9 5 (5.32%) Manufacturing
10 4 (4.26%) Electronics
10 4 (4.26%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (4.26%) Multimedia
10 4 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (4.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (3.19%) French Language
11 3 (3.19%) Greek Language
11 3 (3.19%) Italian Language
11 3 (3.19%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 15 (15.96%) Architect
2 14 (14.89%) Salesforce Architect
3 12 (12.77%) Analyst
4 8 (8.51%) Account Manager
4 8 (8.51%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 8 (8.51%) Technical Architect
5 6 (6.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (5.32%) Digital Account Manager
6 5 (5.32%) Procurement Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Field Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Field Support Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) IT Support
7 4 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) PPC Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.60%) Lightning Web Components
1 25 (26.60%) REST
1 25 (26.60%) SOAP
2 15 (15.96%) Visualforce
3 6 (6.38%) JSON
3 6 (6.38%) JSON-LD
3 6 (6.38%) Next.js
3 6 (6.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (42.55%) Product Ownership
2 12 (12.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (12.77%) Onboarding
2 12 (12.77%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.26%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.26%) Social Media
6 3 (3.19%) Digital Media
6 3 (3.19%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Agile
1 37 (39.36%) DevOps
2 36 (38.30%) Coaching
3 31 (32.98%) CI/CD
4 30 (31.91%) AI
5 28 (29.79%) Asset Management
5 28 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (23.40%) Backlog Refinement
6 22 (23.40%) Sprint Planning
6 22 (23.40%) Sprint Retrospective
7 21 (22.34%) OO
8 16 (17.02%) Test Automation
9 15 (15.96%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (15.96%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 15 (15.96%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (15.96%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (15.96%) Digital Marketing
9 15 (15.96%) Static Code Analysis
9 15 (15.96%) Technical Analysis
9 15 (15.96%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.60%) Apex Code
2 15 (15.96%) SOQL
2 15 (15.96%) SOSL
3 8 (8.51%) Python
3 8 (8.51%) SQL
4 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.45%) CFA
1 7 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.26%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.38%) WCAG
3 4 (4.26%) SLA
4 2 (2.13%) PERC
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Salesforce
2 15 (15.96%) Splunk
3 5 (5.32%) SAP
4 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.06%) Adobe