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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 53 50
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Marketing 5,870 5,788 9,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.96% 5.59% 6.22%
As % of the General category 9.96% 8.19% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,986 2,368 3,878
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,557 £31,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £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 £80,000 £93,750 £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 58,949 70,703 99,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.28% 63.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,111 51,326
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,318 £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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Marketing in the UK

Marketing
Top 17 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 4 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 +17 4,105 £42,500 -5.56% 1,519
England +4 4,009 £45,000 -18.18% 2,505
Work from Home 0 1,898 £45,000 -25.00% 1,237
Scotland +52 1,526 £42,500 +6.25% 79
London +16 1,452 £55,000 -15.38% 1,022
South East +10 806 £43,000 -4.02% 373
North of England -18 645 £42,500 -15.00% 486
Midlands +57 456 £40,000 -5.88% 268
North West +56 365 £45,000 -2.70% 291
South West +11 344 £43,500 -3.33% 175
West Midlands +48 267 £40,000 -11.11% 150
Yorkshire -24 255 £40,000 -20.19% 154
East of England -10 250 £41,821 -27.27% 139
East Midlands +48 189 £39,000 +6.85% 118
Wales -34 41 £50,000 -4.76% 24
Northern Ireland +27 39 £35,000 -46.15% 12
North East -38 25 £39,750 -0.63% 43

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
3 189 (3.22%) WordPress
4 105 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 76 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 66 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 59 (1.01%) Apache
8 57 (0.97%) Confluence
9 39 (0.66%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 11 (0.19%) CICS
16 8 (0.14%) Joomla!
17 5 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 324 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 275 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
3 200 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 138 (2.35%) Photoshop
5 90 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 90 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
6 83 (1.41%) 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 (0.55%) 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
1 124 (2.11%) 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
1 827 (14.09%) AWS
2 440 (7.50%) Azure
3 369 (6.29%) Power Platform
4 242 (4.12%) SaaS
5 209 (3.56%) Google Analytics
6 172 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
7 156 (2.66%) Figma
8 147 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (1.69%) GCP
9 99 (1.69%) Power Automate
10 88 (1.50%) PowerApps
11 77 (1.31%) Datadog
12 75 (1.28%) SurveyMonkey
13 64 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
14 61 (1.04%) GitHub
15 55 (0.94%) Serverless
16 53 (0.90%) Google Ads
17 47 (0.80%) Amazon S3
18 40 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 37 (0.63%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 227 (3.87%) Broadband
2 82 (1.40%) Kerberos
3 43 (0.73%) DNS
3 43 (0.73%) Firewall
4 40 (0.68%) Wireless
5 39 (0.66%) 5G
6 35 (0.60%) Intranet
7 34 (0.58%) 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%) MQTT
14 15 (0.26%) TCP/IP
15 14 (0.24%) LAN
16 13 (0.22%) FTP
17 12 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (5.20%) NoSQL
2 288 (4.91%) Big Data
3 286 (4.87%) Power BI
4 196 (3.34%) SQL Server
5 189 (3.22%) Tableau
6 162 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 97 (1.65%) MongoDB
8 89 (1.52%) Metadata
9 73 (1.24%) MySQL
10 64 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 61 (1.04%) Looker
12 57 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
13 55 (0.94%) Data Lake
14 53 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
15 47 (0.80%) RDBMS
16 40 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
17 39 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (0.58%) Hadoop
19 29 (0.49%) DB2
19 29 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 215 (3.66%) Git
2 188 (3.20%) JIRA
3 184 (3.13%) 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
14 18 (0.31%) SpecFlow
14 18 (0.31%) Subversion
15 16 (0.27%) Eclipse
General
1 2,579 (43.94%) Finance
2 1,777 (30.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,760 (29.98%) Social Skills
4 1,597 (27.21%) Law
5 791 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
6 493 (8.40%) Advertising
7 491 (8.36%) Retail
8 294 (5.01%) Manufacturing
9 283 (4.82%) Public Sector
10 277 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
11 270 (4.60%) Legal
12 252 (4.29%) Financial Institution
13 239 (4.07%) Telecoms
14 236 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
15 229 (3.90%) Electronics
16 197 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
17 192 (3.27%) Banking
18 124 (2.11%) Games
19 101 (1.72%) Publishing
20 98 (1.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,026 (17.48%) Lead
2 1,007 (17.16%) Software Engineer
3 837 (14.26%) Senior
4 563 (9.59%) Lead Software Engineer
5 560 (9.54%) Developer
6 318 (5.42%) Analyst
7 305 (5.20%) Java Engineer
7 305 (5.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 214 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 210 (3.58%) Consultant
10 205 (3.49%) Project Manager
11 200 (3.41%) Python Engineer
12 195 (3.32%) Python Software Engineer
13 189 (3.22%) Designer
14 187 (3.19%) Lead Java Engineer
15 185 (3.15%) Architect
15 185 (3.15%) Engineering Manager
16 180 (3.07%) Software Engineering Manager
17 179 (3.05%) Development Manager
18 172 (2.93%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (8.57%) HTML
2 446 (7.60%) CSS
3 361 (6.15%) React
4 257 (4.38%) .NET
5 239 (4.07%) Spring
6 186 (3.17%) AngularJS
7 172 (2.93%) RESTful
8 168 (2.86%) Web Services
9 160 (2.73%) Spring Boot
10 144 (2.45%) Kafka
11 108 (1.84%) PySpark
12 107 (1.82%) XML
13 100 (1.70%) ASP.NET
14 99 (1.69%) JSON
15 97 (1.65%) Node.js
16 93 (1.58%) HTML5
17 82 (1.40%) GraphQL
18 77 (1.31%) REST
19 76 (1.29%) LDAP
20 75 (1.28%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 637 (10.85%) Cloud Native
2 560 (9.54%) Social Media
3 273 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 250 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 248 (4.22%) Marketing Technology
6 239 (4.07%) Algorithms
7 225 (3.83%) Management Information System
8 203 (3.46%) 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
12 119 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 103 (1.75%) Photography
14 95 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
15 77 (1.31%) Driving Licence
15 77 (1.31%) Mobile App
16 71 (1.21%) IoT
17 67 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
18 62 (1.06%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 172 (2.93%) 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 1,888 (32.16%) Agile
2 1,436 (24.46%) Software Engineering
3 1,222 (20.82%) SDLC
4 1,084 (18.47%) Analytics
5 1,035 (17.63%) CI/CD
6 987 (16.81%) Operational Stability
7 977 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
8 871 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence
9 839 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
10 784 (13.36%) Machine Learning
11 697 (11.87%) Decision-Making
12 678 (11.55%) Project Management
13 623 (10.61%) Community of Practice
14 592 (10.09%) Roadmaps
15 574 (9.78%) CRM
16 564 (9.61%) User Experience
17 535 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
18 467 (7.96%) Mentoring
19 464 (7.90%) Business Development
20 461 (7.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 997 (16.98%) SQL
2 860 (14.65%) Java
3 847 (14.43%) Python
4 598 (10.19%) JavaScript
5 277 (4.72%) C#
6 210 (3.58%) Scala
7 172 (2.93%) PHP
8 159 (2.71%) TypeScript
9 118 (2.01%) R
10 109 (1.86%) Go
11 103 (1.75%) 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 43 (0.73%) PowerShell
17 42 (0.72%) VB
18 31 (0.53%) Bash
19 27 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,187 (20.22%) Degree
2 178 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 147 (2.50%) DBS Check
4 121 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (1.16%) PhD
6 61 (1.04%) MBA
7 56 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (0.95%) Security Cleared
8 41 (0.70%) SC Cleared
9 30 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.41%) 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%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 12 (0.20%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (3.07%) QA
2 169 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 76 (1.29%) 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 21 (0.36%) 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 93 (1.58%) Docker
3 49 (0.83%) Firmware
4 23 (0.39%) 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 7 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.051%) NFS
10 1 (0.017%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.017%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 225 (3.83%) 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 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.10%) Ansible
9 5 (0.085%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.085%) Rancher
9 5 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.068%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.068%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.068%) Puppet
11 3 (0.051%) Autotask
11 3 (0.051%) Nessus
11 3 (0.051%) Nmap
12 2 (0.034%) Argo
12 2 (0.034%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.017%) Nagios
Vendors
1 748 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 362 (6.17%) Google
3 313 (5.33%) Adobe
4 256 (4.36%) Oracle
5 218 (3.71%) SAP
6 181 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 115 (1.96%) Databricks
8 114 (1.94%) Facebook
9 95 (1.62%) 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%) HubSpot
14 44 (0.75%) TikTok
15 38 (0.65%) Alteryx
15 38 (0.65%) Twitter
16 35 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 33 (0.56%) TIBCO