Meta Ads Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Meta Ads
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Meta Ads skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 504 739
Rank change year-on-year -63 +235 -
Permanent jobs citing Meta Ads 16 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.042% 0.004%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.085% 0.14% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 3
10th Percentile £27,813 £26,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £27,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £31,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -21.25% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £37,001 -
90th Percentile - £42,650 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £34,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year +53.28% -8.67% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Meta Ads falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,858 8,713 22,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.77% 30.68% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,122 6,201 17,420
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Meta Ads
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Meta Ads in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Meta Ads in the UK excluding London

Meta Ads
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Meta Ads within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
West Midlands -15 10 £60,000 +62.16%
Midlands -16 10 £60,000 +62.16%
East of England -14 2 £26,750 -
South East -37 2 £40,000 +26.98%
North West -21 1 £45,000 +55.17%
North of England -54 1 £45,000 +55.17%
South West - 1 £30,000 -
Meta Ads
UK

Meta Ads
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (56.25%) SaaS
2 6 (37.50%) Google Ads
3 2 (12.50%) Google Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 11 (68.75%) Marketing
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Advertising
4 2 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Marketing Manager
1 6 (37.50%) Performance Manager
2 2 (12.50%) PPC Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Executive
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Marketing Executive
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing Executive
3 1 (6.25%) PPC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Smart Home
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Lead Generation
2 8 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (25.00%) CRM
4 4 (25.00%) Marketing Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) B2C
5 3 (18.75%) Pay per click
6 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (12.50%) Affiliate Marketing
6 2 (12.50%) Affiliate Network
6 2 (12.50%) Competitor Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Acquisition
6 2 (12.50%) Marketing Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Remarketing
6 2 (12.50%) SEO
6 2 (12.50%) Time Management
7 1 (6.25%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
7 1 (6.25%) Customer Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) Facebook
2 4 (25.00%) Instagram
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft