Digital Marketing Job Trends

Digital Marketing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Digital Marketing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 237 323
Rank change year-on-year -9 +86 +94
Permanent jobs citing Digital Marketing 683 563 845
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 1.35% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.45% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 440 244 502
10th Percentile £25,613 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.48% -19.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £56,500
90th Percentile £77,600 £82,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -22.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Marketing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

Digital Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Digital Marketing job vacancy trend in the UK

Digital Marketing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Marketing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 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
England -4 601 £40,500 -17.58% 250
UK excluding London +8 470 £40,000 -5.88% 185
Work from Home -50 198 £52,500 +5.00% 118
London -46 156 £65,250 +0.38% 96
North of England +36 131 £35,000 -17.65% 43
South East -66 97 £50,000 +11.11% 65
South West 0 89 £55,000 +20.88% 14
North West +14 69 £37,500 -5.66% 29
Midlands -19 56 £36,375 -14.41% 20
East of England -22 55 £34,500 +6.98% 41
Yorkshire -23 40 £55,000 -5.01% 7
West Midlands -16 28 £32,750 -18.13% 12
East Midlands -52 28 £42,500 - 8
Northern Ireland - 24 £45,000 - 2
North East -18 22 £35,000 -22.22% 7
Scotland -22 12 £35,000 -20.45% 1
Wales -31 6 £40,000 -5.88% 2

Digital Marketing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 56 (8.20%) CMS
2 41 (6.00%) WordPress
3 14 (2.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.44%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.29%) CICS
5 2 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (7.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 16 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.20%) Photoshop
4 13 (1.90%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.59%) InDesign
8 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.29%) Elementor
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (4.25%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (2.93%) Workfront
3 14 (2.05%) Shopify
4 11 (1.61%) Magento
5 5 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.29%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 74 (10.83%) Google Analytics
2 57 (8.35%) Google Ads
3 49 (7.17%) SaaS
4 34 (4.98%) iPaaS
5 20 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
5 20 (2.93%) Google Tag Manager
6 16 (2.34%) Canva
7 15 (2.20%) GCP
8 14 (2.05%) Sprout Social
9 12 (1.76%) Google Data Studio
10 11 (1.61%) Asana
10 11 (1.61%) AWS
11 10 (1.46%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.02%) Azure
12 7 (1.02%) GitHub
12 7 (1.02%) Google Sheets
13 6 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 6 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (0.59%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 64 (9.37%) Broadband
2 7 (1.02%) DNS
3 5 (0.73%) DHCP
3 5 (0.73%) SMS
3 5 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.59%) Firewall
4 4 (0.59%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) LAN
5 2 (0.29%) SSL
5 2 (0.29%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Intranet
6 1 (0.15%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.47%) Metadata
2 29 (4.25%) Looker
3 20 (2.93%) Big Data
4 10 (1.46%) Power BI
5 7 (1.02%) Tableau
6 5 (0.73%) MySQL
7 4 (0.59%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.59%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.29%) DB2
8 2 (0.29%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.73%) Git
3 3 (0.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.15%) GCC
4 1 (0.15%) GitLab
4 1 (0.15%) Postman
4 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 683 (100.00%) Marketing
2 191 (27.96%) Social Skills
3 132 (19.33%) Finance
4 93 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (10.98%) Telecoms
6 73 (10.69%) Public Sector
7 72 (10.54%) Advertising
8 71 (10.40%) Manufacturing
9 69 (10.10%) Electronics
10 52 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (5.86%) Retail
13 25 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (3.07%) Banking
15 19 (2.78%) Brand Awareness
16 15 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (1.76%) Legal
18 9 (1.32%) Games
18 9 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (13.18%) Marketing Executive
2 83 (12.15%) Marketing Manager
3 70 (10.25%) Digital Executive
4 69 (10.10%) Digital Marketing Executive
5 61 (8.93%) Senior
6 49 (7.17%) Digital Marketing Manager
7 38 (5.56%) Development Manager
8 36 (5.27%) Campaign Manager
9 35 (5.12%) Product Manager
10 34 (4.98%) Business Manager
11 33 (4.83%) Business Development Manager
12 32 (4.69%) Senior Manager
13 30 (4.39%) Lead
14 29 (4.25%) Product Owner
15 20 (2.93%) Lecturer
16 17 (2.49%) Trainee
17 15 (2.20%) Analyst
17 15 (2.20%) Developer
17 15 (2.20%) Sales Executive
18 14 (2.05%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.86%) HTML
2 32 (4.69%) CSS
3 13 (1.90%) SAP CAF
4 6 (0.88%) Pandas
5 5 (0.73%) LangChain
5 5 (0.73%) PyTorch
5 5 (0.73%) RESTful
5 5 (0.73%) scikit-learn
5 5 (0.73%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.44%) jQuery
6 3 (0.44%) Node.js
7 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.29%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.29%) DOM
7 2 (0.29%) Flask
7 2 (0.29%) HTML5
7 2 (0.29%) Kafka
7 2 (0.29%) NestJS
7 2 (0.29%) Next.js
7 2 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 166 (24.30%) Social Media
2 88 (12.88%) Marketing Technology
3 75 (10.98%) Product Ownership
4 63 (9.22%) Over-the-Top Content
5 35 (5.12%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.95%) IoT
7 22 (3.22%) Driving Licence
8 21 (3.07%) Blog
8 21 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.93%) Web Conferencing
10 17 (2.49%) Video Editing
11 16 (2.34%) Algorithms
12 15 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.61%) Photography
14 10 (1.46%) Podcast
15 9 (1.32%) Graphic Design
15 9 (1.32%) NHS
16 6 (0.88%) Cloud Native
17 4 (0.59%) Digital Media
17 4 (0.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.88%) Windows
2 4 (0.59%) Linux
3 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (33.24%) Analytics
2 160 (23.43%) SEO
3 150 (21.96%) B2B
4 115 (16.84%) Customer Experience
5 111 (16.25%) Decision-Making
6 91 (13.32%) Roadmaps
7 84 (12.30%) Agile
7 84 (12.30%) AI
8 80 (11.71%) Personalization
9 78 (11.42%) Business Intelligence
10 73 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (10.40%) User Experience
11 71 (10.40%) User Stories
12 68 (9.96%) Marketing Strategy
13 67 (9.81%) E-Commerce
13 67 (9.81%) Product Backlog
13 67 (9.81%) Programme Management
14 65 (9.52%) Product Vision
14 65 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
15 63 (9.22%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.10%) Python
2 23 (3.37%) SQL
3 14 (2.05%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.76%) PHP
5 10 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.32%) C#
7 7 (1.02%) Bash
8 6 (0.88%) C++
9 3 (0.44%) Java
9 3 (0.44%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.29%) COBOL
10 2 (0.29%) JCL
11 1 (0.15%) Bicep
11 1 (0.15%) SHACL
11 1 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 86 (12.59%) Degree
2 45 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.66%) Master's Degree
3 25 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.93%) HND
6 14 (2.05%) ACCA
6 14 (2.05%) CISSP
7 13 (1.90%) CISM
7 13 (1.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 10 (1.46%) CIMA
9 6 (0.88%) A+ Certification
10 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.44%) MBA
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.10%) GDPR
2 24 (3.51%) QA
3 21 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.90%) GRC
5 13 (1.90%) NIST
6 11 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.88%) SLA
8 4 (0.59%) IFRS
8 4 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.44%) PERC
10 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) PMO
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (2.05%) Docker
2 4 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) RACF
4 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.02%) Terraform
3 4 (0.59%) Ansible
3 4 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.15%) Puppet
5 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 152 (22.25%) Google
2 104 (15.23%) Adobe
3 69 (10.10%) SAP
4 49 (7.17%) Microsoft
5 26 (3.81%) HubSpot
6 18 (2.64%) Instagram
6 18 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.05%) Screaming Frog
8 13 (1.90%) Hootsuite
9 11 (1.61%) Wrike
10 10 (1.46%) Braze
11 9 (1.32%) Pardot
12 7 (1.02%) Ahrefs
13 6 (0.88%) Apple
13 6 (0.88%) Palantir
13 6 (0.88%) YouTube
14 5 (0.73%) Facebook
15 4 (0.59%) Marketo
15 4 (0.59%) TikTok
16 3 (0.44%) Hotjar