Direct Marketing Job Trends

Direct Marketing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Direct Marketing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 623 824
Rank change year-on-year -57 +201 +48
Permanent jobs citing Direct Marketing 19 13 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.032% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.034% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 36
10th Percentile £28,500 - £25,750
25th Percentile £29,875 £24,500 £30,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £25,000 £40,169
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -37.76% -23.49%
75th Percentile £33,750 £25,500 £46,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £25,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -37.50% -23.81%

All Process & 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 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

Direct Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Direct Marketing job vacancy trend 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
Top 8 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 9 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 -51 13 £32,500 +30.00% 3
UK excluding London -60 11 £32,500 +30.00% 3
Work from Home +15 5 £29,000 - 4
South East -27 5 £29,000 +16.00%
North of England - 5 £32,500 -
North West - 5 £32,500 -
London -10 3 - - 1
Wales - 1 £29,000 - 1

Direct 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 3 (15.79%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (10.53%) Google Sheets
2 1 (5.26%) Canva
2 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.26%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.26%) Typeform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Tableau
General
1 19 (100.00%) Marketing
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (26.32%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Finance
6 1 (5.26%) Advertising
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Business Development Manager
1 5 (26.32%) Business Manager
1 5 (26.32%) Development Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Marketing Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Email Marketing Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Email Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Account Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.26%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Marketing Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IT Recruitment Resourcer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Resourcer
5 1 (5.26%) Recruitment Resourcer
5 1 (5.26%) Resourcer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Digital Marketing Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
1 5 (26.32%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Digital Marketing
2 6 (31.58%) Customer Service
3 5 (26.32%) Business Development
3 5 (26.32%) CRM
3 5 (26.32%) Line Management
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Email Marketing
5 3 (15.79%) Demand Generation
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Budget Management
6 2 (10.53%) Creative Marketing
6 2 (10.53%) Customer Acquisition
6 2 (10.53%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (10.53%) Customer Retention
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Pay per click
6 2 (10.53%) SEO
6 2 (10.53%) Social Media Marketing
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PERC
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) Marketo
3 1 (5.26%) Optimizely
3 1 (5.26%) Pardot