Marketing Contracts

Marketing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Marketing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Marketing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 118 110
Rank change year-on-year +37 -8 -30
Contract jobs citing Marketing 1,133 1,219 2,149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.63% 2.17% 2.45%
As % of the General category 4.58% 3.72% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 814 1,478
10th Percentile £220 £232 £313
25th Percentile £334 £398 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £775 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £502 £488
% change year-on-year -0.40% +2.97% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 41 47
10th Percentile £14.20 £21.25 £20.69
25th Percentile £18.64 £24.25 £29.25
Median hourly rate £34.50 £41.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +10.67% +20.97%
75th Percentile £45.19 £54.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £68.98 £65.00 £61.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £31.85
% change year-on-year -58.33% +88.38% +12.74%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Marketing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Marketing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Marketing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +27 1,038 £463 -10.19% 2,805
London +51 573 £450 -12.20% 1,209
UK excluding London +33 452 £500 -0.40% 1,585
Work from Home +34 360 £500 -4.76% 1,205
South East +1 175 £425 +4.29% 417
South West -16 78 £625 +3.09% 164
North of England +27 64 £450 -10.00% 503
East of England +30 57 £375 -28.57% 147
Midlands +6 41 £475 -6.86% 276
North West +21 33 £500 +3.09% 307
West Midlands +6 29 £500 -4.76% 145
Yorkshire +19 25 £450 -14.29% 154
Scotland +43 19 £500 -2.44% 65
Wales +27 11 £600 +43.28% 30
East Midlands +4 11 £375 -3.23% 133
Northern Ireland - 7 £95 - 22
North East +14 5 £533 +33.13% 47

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 53 (4.68%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.88%) CMS
3 15 (1.32%) Confluence
4 11 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.71%) SAS
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.53%) Drupal
9 5 (0.44%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.26%) Apache
11 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.18%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.18%) WordPress
13 1 (0.088%) nginx
13 1 (0.088%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 57 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (3.09%) Photoshop
5 26 (2.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 19 (1.68%) Adobe After Effects
7 17 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 15 (1.32%) MS Visio
9 13 (1.15%) Adobe Premiere
9 13 (1.15%) InDesign
10 12 (1.06%) Acrobat
11 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.18%) Trello
14 1 (0.088%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.088%) InfoPath
14 1 (0.088%) InVision
14 1 (0.088%) Maya
14 1 (0.088%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (2.21%) Shopify
3 12 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.97%) Adobe Campaign
5 9 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.53%) Workfront
7 5 (0.44%) Eloqua
7 5 (0.44%) Unica
8 4 (0.35%) FastStats
9 3 (0.26%) SAP PLM
10 2 (0.18%) Sprinklr
11 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.088%) OpenCart
11 1 (0.088%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (10.77%) Azure
2 85 (7.50%) Power Platform
3 54 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
4 53 (4.68%) AWS
5 50 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (3.53%) SaaS
7 26 (2.29%) GCP
7 26 (2.29%) Google Analytics
8 24 (2.12%) Figma
9 23 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.94%) BigCommerce
11 17 (1.50%) PaaS
12 14 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 12 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 12 (1.06%) Serverless
14 11 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (0.97%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.97%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.50%) Firewall
2 14 (1.24%) Internet
3 9 (0.79%) 3G
3 9 (0.79%) 4G
3 9 (0.79%) FTP
4 8 (0.71%) Network Security
4 8 (0.71%) VPN
5 7 (0.62%) Wireless
6 6 (0.53%) 5G
6 6 (0.53%) HTTP
6 6 (0.53%) Intranet
6 6 (0.53%) SMS
6 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.35%) LAN
9 3 (0.26%) SSH
9 3 (0.26%) SSL
9 3 (0.26%) VoIP
9 3 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.47%) Power BI
2 32 (2.82%) Tableau
3 27 (2.38%) Metadata
4 24 (2.12%) NoSQL
5 23 (2.03%) Data Vault
6 21 (1.85%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.32%) Metadata Repository
8 12 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.97%) Big Data
9 11 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.88%) Looker
11 9 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
11 9 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.71%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.62%) MySQL
14 6 (0.53%) Ingres
14 6 (0.53%) Pentaho
14 6 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (0.53%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 48 (4.24%) JIRA
2 29 (2.56%) Git
3 9 (0.79%) git-flow
4 8 (0.71%) Postman
5 7 (0.62%) Dreamweaver
5 7 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (0.62%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.44%) ERwin
7 5 (0.44%) Maven
8 4 (0.35%) GitLab
9 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.26%) NUnit
9 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.18%) Ant
10 2 (0.18%) gulp
10 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.18%) webpack
11 1 (0.088%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.088%) LabVIEW
General
1 431 (38.04%) Finance
2 390 (34.42%) Social Skills
3 296 (26.13%) Manufacturing
4 293 (25.86%) Telecoms
5 291 (25.68%) Public Sector
6 273 (24.10%) Electronics
7 147 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
8 121 (10.68%) Retail
9 51 (4.50%) Advertising
9 51 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (4.24%) Legal
11 35 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (2.38%) German Language
14 24 (2.12%) Publishing
15 20 (1.77%) Banking
15 20 (1.77%) Law
16 19 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.59%) French Language
18 17 (1.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (10.41%) Analyst
2 102 (9.00%) Architect
3 96 (8.47%) Senior
4 92 (8.12%) Lead
5 89 (7.86%) Project Manager
6 74 (6.53%) Consultant
6 74 (6.53%) Developer
7 56 (4.94%) Designer
8 45 (3.97%) Marketing Manager
9 42 (3.71%) Business Analyst
10 34 (3.00%) Support Engineer
11 33 (2.91%) Data Architect
12 30 (2.65%) Salesforce Developer
13 26 (2.29%) Senior Manager
13 26 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 23 (2.03%) Business Manager
16 22 (1.94%) Azure Engineer
16 22 (1.94%) Marketing Analyst
16 22 (1.94%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.30%) HTML
2 57 (5.03%) CSS
3 28 (2.47%) React
4 21 (1.85%) Node.js
5 19 (1.68%) VML
6 16 (1.41%) JSON
6 16 (1.41%) Sass
7 15 (1.32%) .NET
7 15 (1.32%) Web Services
8 14 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.15%) jQuery
10 11 (0.97%) AngularJS
10 11 (0.97%) REST
10 11 (0.97%) XML
11 10 (0.88%) HTML5
11 10 (0.88%) PySpark
11 10 (0.88%) Redux
12 9 (0.79%) Jest
12 9 (0.79%) Material-UI
12 9 (0.79%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.35%) Social Media
2 51 (4.50%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.18%) Management Information System
3 36 (3.18%) NHS
4 32 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
6 26 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.85%) Reference Data
9 18 (1.59%) FMCG
10 16 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.32%) Animation
11 15 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.32%) Digital Media
12 14 (1.24%) Graphic Design
12 14 (1.24%) Photography
13 11 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.88%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.44%) Windows
2 28 (2.47%) Linux
3 20 (1.77%) Windows 10
4 15 (1.32%) Unix
5 7 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.35%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.18%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (32.13%) Digital Marketing
2 330 (29.13%) Business Intelligence
3 286 (25.24%) Programme Management
4 190 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (15.62%) Agile
6 166 (14.65%) Project Management
7 143 (12.62%) Analytics
8 134 (11.83%) CRM
9 122 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 92 (8.12%) User Experience
11 78 (6.88%) B2B
11 78 (6.88%) Customer Experience
12 75 (6.62%) Data Modelling
13 73 (6.44%) Customer Service
14 72 (6.35%) Decision-Making
15 70 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (5.91%) E-Commerce
17 63 (5.56%) Time Management
18 58 (5.12%) Roadmaps
19 57 (5.03%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 107 (9.44%) SQL
2 82 (7.24%) Python
3 74 (6.53%) JavaScript
4 32 (2.82%) TypeScript
5 28 (2.47%) Java
6 21 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.59%) C#
8 14 (1.24%) Apex Code
9 11 (0.97%) R
10 8 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.53%) Bash
13 4 (0.35%) C
13 4 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.35%) PHP
14 3 (0.26%) Scala
14 3 (0.26%) SOQL
14 3 (0.26%) VBScript
15 2 (0.18%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 181 (15.98%) Degree
2 125 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 84 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.32%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.88%) Master's Degree
6 25 (2.21%) PMP
7 20 (1.77%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.97%) PhD
12 8 (0.71%) CISSP
12 8 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.71%) MBA
13 7 (0.62%) ISEB
14 5 (0.44%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.44%) CCIE
14 5 (0.44%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.44%) QA
2 38 (3.35%) GDPR
3 34 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.65%) PMO
5 28 (2.47%) SLA
6 21 (1.85%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.71%) HL7
7 8 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.44%) RMADS
10 4 (0.35%) NIST
11 1 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.088%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.088%) P3O
System Software
1 24 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.06%) Docker
3 9 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.44%) NFS
5 4 (0.35%) HDFS
6 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.088%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (0.88%) Terraform
2 9 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.53%) Puppet
4 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.26%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.18%) Grafana
6 2 (0.18%) Nessus
6 2 (0.18%) SCCM
6 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.088%) AppManager
7 1 (0.088%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.088%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.088%) vRealize
7 1 (0.088%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.088%) VxRail
7 1 (0.088%) WMI
Vendors
1 307 (27.10%) SAP
2 204 (18.01%) Microsoft
3 114 (10.06%) Salesforce
4 110 (9.71%) Adobe
5 52 (4.59%) Google
6 36 (3.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 24 (2.12%) Sitecore
8 21 (1.85%) Facebook
9 20 (1.77%) Dell
10 19 (1.68%) Cisco
11 17 (1.50%) Databricks
12 15 (1.32%) Optimizely
12 15 (1.32%) Pardot
12 15 (1.32%) Twitter
13 14 (1.24%) Sparx
14 13 (1.15%) Instagram
14 13 (1.15%) Marketo
14 13 (1.15%) Oracle
14 13 (1.15%) ServiceNow
15 12 (1.06%) Intel