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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 769 675 775
Rank change year-on-year -94 +100 +25
Permanent jobs citing Direct Marketing 13 14 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.028% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.031% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 20
10th Percentile £27,385 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,571 £27,250 £30,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,511 £30,000 £40,064
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -25.12% -40.65%
75th Percentile £29,321 - £46,250
90th Percentile £29,428 - £48,789
UK excluding London median annual salary £28,511 £30,000 £41,234
% change year-on-year -4.96% -27.24% -

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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

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 16 August 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 -91 12 £28,023 -6.59% 7
UK excluding London -102 7 £28,511 -4.96% 5
London -45 6 - - 3
Work from Home -32 4 £29,000 -3.33% 1
East of England -32 3 - - 2
South East -43 2 - -
South West - 1 £28,023 -
Wales - 1 £29,000 -

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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) FastStats
1 1 (7.69%) FastStats PeopleStage
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
1 6 (46.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 13 (100.00%) Marketing
2 10 (76.92%) Finance
3 8 (61.54%) Retail
4 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
6 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (7.69%) Automotive
7 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analytics Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Support Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Development Executive
3 1 (7.69%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Automation Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Marketing Technology
2 6 (46.15%) Algorithms
3 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Media
5 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CRM
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Campaign Analysis
3 7 (53.85%) Coaching
4 6 (46.15%) AI
4 6 (46.15%) Analytics
4 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (46.15%) Business Transformation
4 6 (46.15%) Customer Analytics
4 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (46.15%) Machine Learning
4 6 (46.15%) Mathematics
4 6 (46.15%) Migration
4 6 (46.15%) Multichannel Marketing
4 6 (46.15%) Personalization
4 6 (46.15%) Physics
4 6 (46.15%) Post-Campaign Analysis
4 6 (46.15%) Statistical Analysis
4 6 (46.15%) Statistical Modelling
4 6 (46.15%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
1 6 (46.15%) R
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) PERC
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Apteco
1 1 (7.69%) dotdigital
1 1 (7.69%) Facebook
1 1 (7.69%) Marketo
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Pardot