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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 52 50
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Marketing 5,872 5,693 9,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.96% 5.61% 6.29%
As % of the General category 9.97% 8.22% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 2,314 3,827
10th Percentile £26,270 £31,517 £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 £93,375 £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 58,908 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.82% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,488 37,345 51,003
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 £101,250 £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 7 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 7 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 +19 4,122 £42,500 -5.56% 1,862
England +4 4,008 £45,000 -18.18% 3,277
Work from Home +1 1,894 £45,000 -25.00% 1,603
Scotland +54 1,526 £42,500 +5.95% 88
London +16 1,436 £55,000 -15.38% 1,439
South East +11 804 £43,000 -2.60% 455
North of England -15 651 £42,500 -15.00% 600
Midlands +60 462 £40,000 -5.88% 340
North West +56 369 £45,000 - 369
South West +9 349 £43,500 -3.33% 203
West Midlands +52 270 £40,000 -11.11% 210
Yorkshire -23 257 £40,750 -18.89% 185
East of England -12 249 £42,500 -26.09% 173
East Midlands +47 192 £39,000 +11.43% 130
Wales -32 42 £55,000 +4.76% 26
Northern Ireland +33 40 £35,000 -46.15% 13
North East -38 25 £39,750 -0.63% 48
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 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 230 (3.92%) CMS
3 190 (3.24%) WordPress
4 106 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 76 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 67 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 59 (1.00%) Apache
8 57 (0.97%) Confluence
9 38 (0.65%) 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 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 8 (0.14%) Joomla!
18 5 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 329 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 280 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
3 205 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 137 (2.33%) Photoshop
5 90 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 90 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
6 82 (1.40%) InDesign
7 69 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
8 46 (0.78%) Adobe After Effects
9 36 (0.61%) 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
1 121 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (1.12%) Shopify
3 61 (1.04%) Magento
4 35 (0.60%) 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 4 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.068%) MIS ActiveH
11 4 (0.068%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.068%) Raiser’s Edge
11 4 (0.068%) Sage 500
11 4 (0.068%) Sage X3
12 3 (0.051%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.051%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 825 (14.05%) AWS
2 440 (7.49%) Azure
3 368 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 241 (4.10%) SaaS
5 208 (3.54%) Google Analytics
6 170 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
7 156 (2.66%) Figma
8 148 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (1.69%) GCP
10 98 (1.67%) Power Automate
11 87 (1.48%) PowerApps
12 77 (1.31%) Datadog
13 75 (1.28%) SurveyMonkey
14 64 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
15 61 (1.04%) GitHub
16 55 (0.94%) Serverless
17 53 (0.90%) Google Ads
18 47 (0.80%) Amazon S3
19 40 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
20 38 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 227 (3.87%) Broadband
2 82 (1.40%) Kerberos
3 43 (0.73%) DNS
4 41 (0.70%) Firewall
5 40 (0.68%) Wireless
6 39 (0.66%) 5G
7 35 (0.60%) Intranet
7 35 (0.60%) Network Security
8 29 (0.49%) Internet
9 27 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.37%) Unified Communications
11 20 (0.34%) HTTP
12 18 (0.31%) DSL
12 18 (0.31%) SMS
12 18 (0.31%) WAN
13 16 (0.27%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.26%) MQTT
15 14 (0.24%) FTP
15 14 (0.24%) LAN
16 12 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (5.19%) NoSQL
2 288 (4.90%) Big Data
3 285 (4.85%) Power BI
4 193 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 188 (3.20%) Tableau
6 161 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 97 (1.65%) MongoDB
8 88 (1.50%) Metadata
9 72 (1.23%) MySQL
10 64 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 61 (1.04%) Looker
12 57 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
13 56 (0.95%) Data Lake
14 53 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
15 47 (0.80%) RDBMS
16 40 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
16 40 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
17 34 (0.58%) Hadoop
18 29 (0.49%) DB2
19 28 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 213 (3.63%) Git
2 187 (3.18%) JIRA
3 183 (3.12%) Jenkins
4 73 (1.24%) Bitbucket
5 65 (1.11%) Artifactory
5 65 (1.11%) Visual Studio
6 45 (0.77%) GitLab
7 37 (0.63%) JUnit
8 33 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 29 (0.49%) JMeter
10 27 (0.46%) Moq
10 27 (0.46%) NUnit
11 23 (0.39%) Maven
12 20 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
13 19 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
13 19 (0.32%) Jasmine
13 19 (0.32%) Mockito
13 19 (0.32%) SpecFlow
14 18 (0.31%) Subversion
15 16 (0.27%) Eclipse
General
1 2,584 (44.01%) Finance
2 1,777 (30.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,758 (29.94%) Social Skills
4 1,597 (27.20%) Law
5 795 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
6 496 (8.45%) Retail
7 491 (8.36%) Advertising
8 293 (4.99%) Manufacturing
9 277 (4.72%) Public Sector
10 276 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
11 271 (4.62%) Legal
12 251 (4.27%) Financial Institution
13 235 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
14 230 (3.92%) Telecoms
15 227 (3.87%) Electronics
16 198 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
17 191 (3.25%) Banking
18 124 (2.11%) Games
19 101 (1.72%) Publishing
20 98 (1.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,027 (17.49%) Lead
2 1,006 (17.13%) Software Engineer
3 831 (14.15%) Senior
4 563 (9.59%) Lead Software Engineer
5 557 (9.49%) Developer
6 321 (5.47%) Analyst
7 305 (5.19%) Java Engineer
7 305 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 214 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 205 (3.49%) Consultant
10 203 (3.46%) Project Manager
11 200 (3.41%) Python Engineer
12 195 (3.32%) Architect
12 195 (3.32%) Python Software Engineer
13 189 (3.22%) Designer
14 187 (3.18%) Lead Java Engineer
15 185 (3.15%) Engineering Manager
16 182 (3.10%) Development Manager
17 180 (3.07%) Software Engineering Manager
18 171 (2.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 504 (8.58%) HTML
2 445 (7.58%) CSS
3 359 (6.11%) React
4 258 (4.39%) .NET
5 239 (4.07%) Spring
6 186 (3.17%) AngularJS
7 173 (2.95%) RESTful
8 167 (2.84%) Web Services
9 160 (2.72%) Spring Boot
10 144 (2.45%) Kafka
11 108 (1.84%) PySpark
12 107 (1.82%) XML
13 101 (1.72%) ASP.NET
14 99 (1.69%) JSON
15 97 (1.65%) Node.js
16 95 (1.62%) HTML5
17 83 (1.41%) GraphQL
18 78 (1.33%) REST
19 76 (1.29%) jQuery
19 76 (1.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 637 (10.85%) Cloud Native
2 559 (9.52%) Social Media
3 271 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 250 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 243 (4.14%) Marketing Technology
6 239 (4.07%) Algorithms
7 224 (3.81%) Management Information System
8 204 (3.47%) Public Cloud
9 135 (2.30%) Market Risk
9 135 (2.30%) Reference Data
10 134 (2.28%) Blog
11 122 (2.08%) Graphic Design
12 116 (1.98%) Onboarding
13 103 (1.75%) Photography
14 95 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
15 78 (1.33%) Driving Licence
16 75 (1.28%) Mobile App
17 71 (1.21%) IoT
18 67 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
19 62 (1.06%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 174 (2.96%) Windows
2 163 (2.78%) Linux
3 46 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 30 (0.51%) Android
5 26 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.41%) 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 1,895 (32.27%) Agile
2 1,432 (24.39%) Software Engineering
3 1,223 (20.83%) SDLC
4 1,083 (18.44%) Analytics
5 1,033 (17.59%) CI/CD
6 987 (16.81%) Operational Stability
7 979 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 865 (14.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 834 (14.20%) Digital Marketing
10 783 (13.33%) Machine Learning
11 697 (11.87%) Decision-Making
12 676 (11.51%) Project Management
13 621 (10.58%) Community of Practice
14 592 (10.08%) Roadmaps
15 574 (9.78%) CRM
16 561 (9.55%) User Experience
17 532 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
18 468 (7.97%) Business Development
19 465 (7.92%) Mentoring
20 462 (7.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 997 (16.98%) SQL
2 860 (14.65%) Java
3 847 (14.42%) Python
4 599 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 277 (4.72%) C#
6 210 (3.58%) Scala
7 171 (2.91%) PHP
8 158 (2.69%) TypeScript
9 119 (2.03%) R
10 109 (1.86%) Go
11 101 (1.72%) C
12 76 (1.29%) C++
13 72 (1.23%) T-SQL
14 65 (1.11%) Prolog
14 65 (1.11%) SPARQL
15 53 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 44 (0.75%) PowerShell
17 42 (0.72%) VB
18 31 (0.53%) Bash
19 26 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,184 (20.16%) Degree
2 179 (3.05%) Master's Degree
3 147 (2.50%) DBS Check
4 123 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (1.16%) PhD
6 61 (1.04%) MBA
7 55 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 55 (0.94%) Security Cleared
8 40 (0.68%) SC Cleared
9 30 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.43%) 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 (0.26%) HNC
16 13 (0.22%) CISA
16 13 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.05%) QA
2 169 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 78 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.26%) GDPR
5 69 (1.18%) PMO
6 64 (1.09%) SLA
7 61 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
8 26 (0.44%) NIST
9 20 (0.34%) 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%) IFRS
17 3 (0.051%) PSD2
System Software
1 101 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.55%) Docker
3 48 (0.82%) Firmware
4 22 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.32%) HDFS
5 19 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.26%) 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
1 223 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.49%) Terraform
3 88 (1.50%) Grafana
4 55 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.15%) SCCM
6 8 (0.14%) 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
1 748 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 361 (6.15%) Google
3 311 (5.30%) Adobe
4 255 (4.34%) Oracle
5 216 (3.68%) SAP
6 180 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 115 (1.96%) Databricks
8 114 (1.94%) Facebook
9 96 (1.63%) Splunk
10 90 (1.53%) Dynatrace
11 64 (1.09%) Qualtrics
12 51 (0.87%) Instagram
12 51 (0.87%) Sybase
13 45 (0.77%) YouTube
14 44 (0.75%) TikTok
15 42 (0.72%) HubSpot
16 38 (0.65%) Alteryx
16 38 (0.65%) Twitter
17 35 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 33 (0.56%) TIBCO