Marketing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Marketing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 52 50
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Marketing 5,897 5,682 9,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.95% 5.61% 6.30%
As % of the General category 9.96% 8.22% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,991 2,308 3,813
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,557 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,437 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All General Skills
UK

Marketing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Marketing.

Salary trend for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Marketing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 +20 4,145 £42,500 -5.56% 1,452
England +3 4,028 £45,000 -18.18% 2,379
Work from Home +3 1,912 £45,000 -24.37% 1,204
Scotland +54 1,528 £42,500 +5.95% 77
London +15 1,437 £55,000 -15.38% 962
South East +7 807 £43,000 -4.02% 347
North of England -14 665 £42,500 -15.00% 456
Midlands +57 462 £40,000 -5.88% 271
North West +56 380 £45,000 - 275
South West +11 352 £43,500 -3.33% 165
West Midlands +43 269 £40,000 -11.11% 163
Yorkshire -19 260 £40,750 -18.89% 145
East of England -11 248 £42,750 -25.65% 134
East Midlands +52 193 £39,000 +11.43% 108
Wales -39 43 £55,000 +4.76% 25
Northern Ireland +30 41 £35,000 -46.15% 10
North East -39 25 £39,750 -0.63% 38
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 3

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:

Application Platforms
1 323 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 230 (3.90%) CMS
3 190 (3.22%) WordPress
4 105 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 76 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 64 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 59 (1.00%) Apache
8 57 (0.97%) Confluence
9 38 (0.64%) SAS
10 37 (0.63%) FileNet
11 19 (0.32%) Drupal
11 19 (0.32%) nginx
12 18 (0.31%) Umbraco
13 17 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
13 17 (0.29%) IIS
14 12 (0.20%) Headless CMS
15 11 (0.19%) CICS
16 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 8 (0.14%) Joomla!
18 5 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 325 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 279 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 207 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 134 (2.27%) Photoshop
5 89 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 89 (1.51%) Adobe Illustrator
6 79 (1.34%) InDesign
7 68 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
8 45 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
9 35 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
10 33 (0.56%) Sketch
11 32 (0.54%) UserZoom
12 29 (0.49%) Trello
13 26 (0.44%) Adobe XD
14 16 (0.27%) SPSS
15 12 (0.20%) AutoCAD
16 10 (0.17%) MS Visio
17 9 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
18 8 (0.14%) Blender
18 8 (0.14%) InVision
Business Applications
1 120 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.10%) Shopify
3 61 (1.03%) Magento
4 33 (0.56%) Endur
5 27 (0.46%) SDL Web 8
6 17 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
7 14 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 11 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 8 (0.14%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
9 8 (0.14%) SAP CX
10 6 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.085%) Raiser’s Edge
12 4 (0.068%) MIS ActiveH
12 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
12 4 (0.068%) Sage 500
12 4 (0.068%) Sage X3
13 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
13 3 (0.051%) Relativity
13 3 (0.051%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 826 (14.01%) AWS
2 440 (7.46%) Azure
3 364 (6.17%) Power Platform
4 243 (4.12%) SaaS
5 209 (3.54%) Google Analytics
6 168 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
7 156 (2.65%) Figma
8 147 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (1.68%) GCP
10 98 (1.66%) Power Automate
11 86 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 77 (1.31%) Datadog
13 75 (1.27%) SurveyMonkey
14 64 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
15 61 (1.03%) GitHub
16 55 (0.93%) Serverless
17 53 (0.90%) Google Ads
18 47 (0.80%) Amazon S3
19 40 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
20 38 (0.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 227 (3.85%) Broadband
2 82 (1.39%) Kerberos
3 44 (0.75%) DNS
4 42 (0.71%) Firewall
5 41 (0.70%) Wireless
6 40 (0.68%) 5G
7 35 (0.59%) Intranet
7 35 (0.59%) Network Security
8 29 (0.49%) Internet
9 28 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (0.36%) Unified Communications
11 20 (0.34%) HTTP
12 18 (0.31%) DSL
12 18 (0.31%) SMS
12 18 (0.31%) WAN
13 17 (0.29%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.25%) MQTT
15 14 (0.24%) FTP
15 14 (0.24%) LAN
16 12 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (5.17%) NoSQL
2 288 (4.88%) Big Data
3 282 (4.78%) Power BI
4 188 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 188 (3.19%) Tableau
5 158 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 97 (1.64%) MongoDB
7 88 (1.49%) Metadata
8 73 (1.24%) MySQL
9 64 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 61 (1.03%) Looker
11 57 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 57 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 53 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
13 45 (0.76%) RDBMS
14 40 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 40 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
15 34 (0.58%) Hadoop
16 29 (0.49%) DB2
17 26 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 214 (3.63%) Git
2 187 (3.17%) JIRA
3 182 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 73 (1.24%) Bitbucket
5 65 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 63 (1.07%) Visual Studio
7 46 (0.78%) GitLab
8 37 (0.63%) JUnit
9 33 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 29 (0.49%) JMeter
11 27 (0.46%) Moq
11 27 (0.46%) NUnit
12 23 (0.39%) Maven
13 20 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
14 19 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
14 19 (0.32%) Jasmine
14 19 (0.32%) Mockito
14 19 (0.32%) SpecFlow
15 18 (0.31%) Subversion
16 16 (0.27%) Eclipse
General
1 2,595 (44.01%) Finance
2 1,778 (30.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,766 (29.95%) Social Skills
4 1,598 (27.10%) Law
5 796 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
6 500 (8.48%) Retail
7 489 (8.29%) Advertising
8 294 (4.99%) Manufacturing
9 278 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 276 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
11 274 (4.65%) Legal
12 250 (4.24%) Financial Institution
13 235 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
14 231 (3.92%) Telecoms
15 228 (3.87%) Electronics
16 198 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
17 191 (3.24%) Banking
18 122 (2.07%) Games
19 102 (1.73%) Publishing
20 98 (1.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,026 (17.40%) Lead
2 1,006 (17.06%) Software Engineer
3 831 (14.09%) Senior
4 563 (9.55%) Lead Software Engineer
5 562 (9.53%) Developer
6 323 (5.48%) Analyst
7 305 (5.17%) Java Engineer
7 305 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 218 (3.70%) Consultant
9 214 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 202 (3.43%) Project Manager
11 200 (3.39%) Python Engineer
12 195 (3.31%) Python Software Engineer
13 192 (3.26%) Architect
14 188 (3.19%) Designer
15 187 (3.17%) Lead Java Engineer
16 185 (3.14%) Engineering Manager
17 182 (3.09%) Development Manager
18 180 (3.05%) Software Engineering Manager
19 171 (2.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (8.53%) HTML
2 444 (7.53%) CSS
3 360 (6.10%) React
4 260 (4.41%) .NET
5 239 (4.05%) Spring
6 186 (3.15%) AngularJS
7 174 (2.95%) RESTful
8 166 (2.81%) Web Services
9 160 (2.71%) Spring Boot
10 144 (2.44%) Kafka
11 108 (1.83%) PySpark
12 107 (1.81%) XML
13 101 (1.71%) ASP.NET
14 100 (1.70%) JSON
15 97 (1.64%) Node.js
16 94 (1.59%) HTML5
17 82 (1.39%) GraphQL
18 79 (1.34%) REST
19 76 (1.29%) LDAP
20 75 (1.27%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 637 (10.80%) Cloud Native
2 554 (9.39%) Social Media
3 273 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 250 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
5 242 (4.10%) Marketing Technology
6 240 (4.07%) Algorithms
7 223 (3.78%) Management Information System
8 204 (3.46%) Public Cloud
9 135 (2.29%) Blog
9 135 (2.29%) Market Risk
9 135 (2.29%) Reference Data
10 120 (2.03%) Graphic Design
11 115 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 102 (1.73%) Photography
13 95 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 77 (1.31%) Driving Licence
15 75 (1.27%) Mobile App
16 71 (1.20%) IoT
17 67 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
18 63 (1.07%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 176 (2.98%) Windows
2 163 (2.76%) Linux
3 47 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 30 (0.51%) Android
5 26 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 23 (0.39%) Unix
8 16 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.051%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.051%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.017%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.017%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.017%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,900 (32.22%) Agile
2 1,433 (24.30%) Software Engineering
3 1,222 (20.72%) SDLC
4 1,088 (18.45%) Analytics
5 1,033 (17.52%) CI/CD
6 987 (16.74%) Operational Stability
7 978 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
8 867 (14.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 836 (14.18%) Digital Marketing
10 782 (13.26%) Machine Learning
11 696 (11.80%) Decision-Making
12 675 (11.45%) Project Management
13 621 (10.53%) Community of Practice
14 602 (10.21%) Roadmaps
15 572 (9.70%) CRM
16 560 (9.50%) User Experience
17 528 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
18 472 (8.00%) Business Development
19 466 (7.90%) Mentoring
20 460 (7.80%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 995 (16.87%) SQL
2 858 (14.55%) Java
3 846 (14.35%) Python
4 599 (10.16%) JavaScript
5 277 (4.70%) C#
6 210 (3.56%) Scala
7 174 (2.95%) PHP
8 158 (2.68%) TypeScript
9 118 (2.00%) R
10 109 (1.85%) Go
11 101 (1.71%) C
12 76 (1.29%) C++
13 71 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 65 (1.10%) Prolog
14 65 (1.10%) SPARQL
15 53 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 44 (0.75%) PowerShell
17 40 (0.68%) VB
18 31 (0.53%) Bash
19 26 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,179 (19.99%) Degree
2 179 (3.04%) Master's Degree
3 148 (2.51%) DBS Check
4 122 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (1.15%) PhD
6 61 (1.03%) MBA
7 56 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (0.95%) Security Cleared
8 40 (0.68%) SC Cleared
9 30 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.42%) CISSP
11 23 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 23 (0.39%) HND
11 23 (0.39%) PMP
12 20 (0.34%) ACCA
13 17 (0.29%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.27%) CISM
15 15 (0.25%) HNC
16 13 (0.22%) CISA
16 13 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.04%) QA
2 170 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 79 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 76 (1.29%) GDPR
5 69 (1.17%) PMO
6 64 (1.09%) SLA
7 60 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 26 (0.44%) NIST
9 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.27%) WCAG
11 14 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 13 (0.22%) GRC
13 12 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.17%) GMP
15 7 (0.12%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.068%) IEC 61131
16 4 (0.068%) JTAG
17 3 (0.051%) GAMP
17 3 (0.051%) MiFID
17 3 (0.051%) PSD2
System Software
1 100 (1.70%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.56%) Docker
3 48 (0.81%) Firmware
4 22 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.32%) HDFS
5 19 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
8 6 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.051%) NFS
10 1 (0.017%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.017%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 224 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.48%) Terraform
3 88 (1.49%) Grafana
4 55 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.15%) SCCM
6 7 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.10%) Ansible
7 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.085%) Rancher
8 5 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.068%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.068%) Puppet
10 3 (0.051%) Autotask
10 3 (0.051%) Nessus
10 3 (0.051%) Nmap
11 2 (0.034%) Argo
11 2 (0.034%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.017%) Nagios
Vendors
1 744 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 362 (6.14%) Google
3 306 (5.19%) Adobe
4 253 (4.29%) Oracle
5 217 (3.68%) SAP
6 178 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 115 (1.95%) Databricks
8 112 (1.90%) Facebook
9 96 (1.63%) Splunk
10 90 (1.53%) Dynatrace
11 64 (1.09%) Qualtrics
12 51 (0.86%) Instagram
13 49 (0.83%) Sybase
14 45 (0.76%) YouTube
15 44 (0.75%) TikTok
16 40 (0.68%) HubSpot
17 38 (0.64%) Alteryx
18 37 (0.63%) Twitter
19 35 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
20 31 (0.53%) OpenLink