Direct Marketing Job Trends

Direct Marketing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Direct Marketing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 666 789 768
Rank change year-on-year +123 -21 +382
Permanent jobs citing Direct Marketing 10 7 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.009% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.011% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £29,400 £32,838 -
25th Percentile - £39,142 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £41,234 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.24% -38.91% -27.03%
75th Percentile - £45,944 £68,750
90th Percentile £37,000 £49,139 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £41,234 -
% change year-on-year -27.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Direct 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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Direct Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Direct Marketing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Direct Marketing in the UK

Direct Marketing
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Direct Marketing

Direct Marketing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Direct Marketing over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Direct Marketing in the UK

Direct Marketing
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Direct Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
UK excluding London +117 7 £30,000 -27.24% 9
England +112 7 £30,000 -32.79% 11
Work from Home +77 6 £30,000 -38.95% 7
East of England - 5 £30,000 -
South East +49 1 £29,000 -40.98% 2
North West - 1 £45,000 - 3
North of England - 1 £45,000 - 5

Direct Marketing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 10 (100.00%) Marketing
2 5 (50.00%) Advertising
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Business Development Executive
2 1 (10.00%) Account Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Database Executive
2 1 (10.00%) Insight Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Insight Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Recruitment Resourcer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Resourcer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Recruitment Resourcer
2 1 (10.00%) Resourcer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Development
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Campaign Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Campaign Management
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science
4 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (10.00%) Invoice Processing
4 1 (10.00%) Line Management
4 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (10.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce