Digital Marketing Contracts

Digital Marketing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Digital Marketing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 358 314
Rank change year-on-year +107 -44 -84
Contract jobs citing Digital Marketing 418 402 776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.68% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.76% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 316 619
10th Percentile £205 £205 £313
25th Percentile £333 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £644
90th Percentile £788 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 4
10th Percentile £12.75 £26.00 £15.48
25th Percentile £16.80 £26.75 £18.44
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £28.38
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +49.75% -5.40%
75th Percentile £34.31 £63.75 £39.21
90th Percentile £67.50 - £42.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £29.50 -
% change year-on-year -15.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Marketing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Digital Marketing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Marketing.

Daily rate trend for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Marketing.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Marketing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Digital Marketing in the UK

Digital Marketing
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +96 392 £475 -9.52% 477
UK excluding London +43 191 £525 -4.55% 317
London +143 174 £516 -1.71% 172
Work from Home +86 138 £470 -10.48% 279
South West -18 67 £625 +4.17% 32
South East +14 63 £205 - 59
North of England +45 21 £450 +97.80% 110
East of England +25 18 £350 -33.33% 40
North West +27 15 £650 +185.71% 63
Midlands +24 9 £425 -34.62% 62
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 4
Yorkshire - 6 £450 - 41
Scotland +39 5 £575 -17.86% 14
East Midlands +24 5 £135 - 29
West Midlands +17 4 £600 -7.69% 33

Digital 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 23 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.07%) CMS
3 10 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.72%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.24%) Liferay
7 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.96%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.72%) InDesign
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.24%) InVision
6 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (2.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) FastStats
2 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.24%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.68%) Azure
2 32 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (5.50%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.78%) AWS
5 19 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.31%) PaaS
7 13 (3.11%) IaaS
8 12 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (2.87%) SaaS
9 10 (2.39%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.44%) ChatGPT
10 6 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.20%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 4 (0.96%) Figma
12 4 (0.96%) GCP
12 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.96%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.72%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.63%) Firewall
1 11 (2.63%) VPN
2 9 (2.15%) FTP
2 9 (2.15%) HTTP
3 8 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.67%) 3G
4 7 (1.67%) 4G
5 6 (1.44%) DNS
6 5 (1.20%) LAN
6 5 (1.20%) WAN
6 5 (1.20%) Wireless
7 4 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.72%) InfiniBand
8 3 (0.72%) Internet
8 3 (0.72%) Skype
8 3 (0.72%) SSH
8 3 (0.72%) SSL
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.48%) Network Security
9 2 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.89%) Metadata
2 21 (5.02%) Data Vault
2 21 (5.02%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 16 (3.83%) Power BI
5 15 (3.59%) Metadata Repository
6 9 (2.15%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.44%) Ingres
7 6 (1.44%) Pentaho
7 6 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (1.44%) QlikView
7 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.44%) Tableau
8 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.96%) GIS
8 4 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.72%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.63%) ERwin
2 10 (2.39%) JIRA
3 9 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.44%) Git
5 5 (1.20%) NUnit
6 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.72%) Postman
7 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.24%) GitLab
9 1 (0.24%) GoCD
9 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 418 (100.00%) Marketing
2 323 (77.27%) Finance
3 322 (77.03%) Manufacturing
4 321 (76.79%) Public Sector
5 319 (76.32%) Telecoms
6 317 (75.84%) Electronics
7 101 (24.16%) Social Skills
8 41 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (4.78%) Retail
10 18 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.63%) German Language
12 10 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.67%) Legal
14 6 (1.44%) Advertising
14 6 (1.44%) French Language
14 6 (1.44%) Publishing
15 5 (1.20%) Games
16 4 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 66 (15.79%) Architect
2 43 (10.29%) Lead
3 42 (10.05%) Project Manager
4 39 (9.33%) Support Engineer
5 34 (8.13%) Data Architect
5 34 (8.13%) Senior
6 27 (6.46%) Consultant
7 24 (5.74%) Analyst
8 20 (4.78%) Desktop Engineer
8 20 (4.78%) Desktop Support
8 20 (4.78%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 17 (4.07%) Developer
10 16 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (3.83%) Chief Architect
10 16 (3.83%) Chief Data Architect
11 14 (3.35%) Change Manager
11 14 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.11%) Business Manager
12 13 (3.11%) Enterprise Architect
12 13 (3.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.11%) .NET
2 9 (2.15%) CSS
3 7 (1.67%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.67%) HTML
4 6 (1.44%) LDAP
4 6 (1.44%) RESTful
5 5 (1.20%) GraphQL
6 4 (0.96%) Hugging Face
6 4 (0.96%) LangChain
6 4 (0.96%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.96%) Web Services
6 4 (0.96%) YAML
7 3 (0.72%) Playwright
7 3 (0.72%) REST
7 3 (0.72%) XML
8 2 (0.48%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.48%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.48%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.48%) Node.js
8 2 (0.48%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.00%) NHS
2 21 (5.02%) Reference Data
3 20 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (4.07%) Social Media
5 15 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.63%) Wiki
7 8 (1.91%) LIMS
7 8 (1.91%) Over-the-Top Content
7 8 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.67%) FMCG
8 7 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.44%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.44%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.44%) Replication
10 4 (0.96%) Animation
10 4 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.68%) Windows
2 23 (5.50%) Windows 10
3 21 (5.02%) Linux
4 6 (1.44%) Windows 7
4 6 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (77.75%) Business Intelligence
2 318 (76.08%) Programme Management
3 66 (15.79%) Agile
4 42 (10.05%) Project Management
5 40 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (8.61%) Data Modelling
7 35 (8.37%) Analytics
8 33 (7.89%) Data Architecture
9 31 (7.42%) Data Strategy
10 29 (6.94%) Data Governance
10 29 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (6.70%) User Experience
12 27 (6.46%) Change Management
13 25 (5.98%) DevOps
14 24 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (5.74%) Data Integration
14 24 (5.74%) Project Delivery
15 23 (5.50%) Data Protection
15 23 (5.50%) Scrum
16 22 (5.26%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.13%) SQL
2 20 (4.78%) PowerShell
2 20 (4.78%) Python
3 16 (3.83%) C#
4 13 (3.11%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (1.67%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.96%) Java
7 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.72%) Bash
8 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.72%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.24%) Bicep
9 1 (0.24%) C
9 1 (0.24%) C++
9 1 (0.24%) Korn
9 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.24%) Rust
9 1 (0.24%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 108 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 74 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.57%) DV Cleared
4 37 (8.85%) Degree
5 11 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.20%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (1.20%) CISSP
7 5 (1.20%) PMP
8 4 (0.96%) CLAS
8 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (0.72%) APMG
9 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.72%) MCSE
9 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.48%) CCNP
10 2 (0.48%) MCSD
10 2 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.70%) GDPR
2 12 (2.87%) PMO
3 11 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.91%) HL7
4 8 (1.91%) QA
5 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.20%) JSP 440
6 5 (1.20%) RMADS
7 4 (0.96%) NIST
7 4 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.96%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 21 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.91%) NFS
3 5 (1.20%) Docker
4 4 (0.96%) Firmware
4 4 (0.96%) HDFS
5 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (3.11%) Terraform
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.96%) CA Service Virtualization
3 4 (0.96%) Puppet
4 3 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) Nessus
5 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.24%) Avamar
6 1 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) SCOM
6 1 (0.24%) systemd
6 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 317 (75.84%) SAP
2 71 (16.99%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.02%) Sparx
4 11 (2.63%) Dell
5 10 (2.39%) Adobe
5 10 (2.39%) Google
6 9 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.91%) Oracle
8 7 (1.67%) Isilon
9 6 (1.44%) Informatica
10 5 (1.20%) Cisco
10 5 (1.20%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.20%) VMware
11 4 (0.96%) Computacenter
11 4 (0.96%) ESRI
11 4 (0.96%) Micro Focus
11 4 (0.96%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.96%) Twitter