• Total active marketing job listings reached 86,628 in Q2 2026, up 0.4% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ).
• Employers posted 53,961 new marketing jobs during the quarter, a 5.1% QoQ decline.
• 24,042 employers hired for marketing roles, 2.3% more than in Q1.
• Hiring demand rebounded in January, peaked in April, then eased modestly through May and June while remaining well above the levels seen at the start of the year.
• At quarter-end (June 29, 2026), there were 36,086 live marketing job listings, up 7.1% year-over-year (YoY) but down 3.6% from the end of Q1.

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• Total active senior marketing job listings (Director-level and above) reached 11,659 in Q2 2026, up 4.5% QoQ.
• Employers posted 7,293 new senior marketing jobs during the quarter, a 2.9% QoQ increase.
• At quarter-end (June 29, 2026), there were 5,082 live senior marketing job listings, up 17.3% YoY and 1.7% from the end of Q1.
• Senior marketing hiring continued to outpace the broader market, extending a trend that has persisted for more than a year.
  

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• At quarter-end, the average job posting lifetime stood at 41 days.
• This was 1 day longer than a year earlier and 1 day longer than at the end of Q1.
• The modest increase suggests hiring activity slowed slightly during the quarter.

• Manager and Senior Manager roles have overtaken Entry-level positions as the largest segment of the U.S. in-house marketing job market.
• Hiring increased year-over-year across every marketing level except Entry-level roles, which have been declining steadily since early April and ended the quarter down 4.0% YoY and 16.4% QoQ.
• EVP/SVP, VP/Group Director/Senior Director, Associate Director/Director, and Specialist/Senior Associate roles all recorded double-digit year-over-year growth.
• Director-level and above job listings were up 17.3% versus the baseline, significantly outpacing the 5.9% growth recorded across all other levels.
• The data points to a continued shift toward experienced marketing talent, as companies reduced entry-level hiring while increasing investment in more senior roles.
  

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• Salary transparency appears to have levelled off, with 55.6% of marketing job listings disclosing compensation. This was a slight decline from Q1 but remained 2.8 percentage points higher than a year earlier.
• At quarter-end (June 29, 2026), the median advertised salary reached $95,004, up 11.8% year-over-year (YoY).
• Salary growth was strongest at the lower end of the salary distribution, with the 25th percentile rising 13.1% YoY compared with 7.4% YoY at the 75th percentile.
  

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• After reaching a high in the first week of March, the share of remote marketing jobs began a steady decline throughout the remainder of the quarter. By quarter-end, remote roles accounted for 13.6% of all in-house marketing job listings, down 1.0 percentage point YoY.
• The decline likely reflects the continued normalization of return-to-office policies, as many employers appear to have now settled on hybrid or in-office working models rather than expanding remote hiring.
• The shift toward more senior hiring may also be contributing, as leadership roles often place greater emphasis on in-person collaboration, team management, and cross-functional influence.

• Partner & Channel Marketing remained the fastest-growing marketing discipline, with live job listings up 32.5% YoY. Growth Marketing (+25.1%), Brand Marketing (+23.8%), Content Marketing (+21.8%), and Media (+14.4%) also recorded strong growth.
• Product Marketing continued to command the highest median advertised salary among all marketing disciplines at $162,001.
• Field Marketing recorded the largest year-over-year increase in median advertised salary (+37.4%), followed by Growth Marketing (+14.3%), GeneralMarketing (+13.5%), Media (+10.5%), and Communications & PR (+8.2%).
• The mix of high-growth disciplines suggests companies continue to prioritize customer acquisition, revenue generation, and brand building despite a more selective hiring environment.

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• California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania remained the 10 largest markets for in-house marketing hiring in Q2.
• North Carolina entered the top 10 for the first time, replacing Virginia after growing 14.3% YoY and 1.7% QoQ. Virginia fell out of the top 10 following a 10.2% QoQ decline in job listings.
• Among the largest hiring markets, New York (+19.0% YoY) recorded the strongest growth, followed by North Carolina (+14.3%), Massachusetts (+13.9%), California (+9.7%), Pennsylvania (+7.2%), and Georgia (+6.9%).
• Not all major markets expanded. New Jersey (-4.0% YoY), Florida (-1.7%), and Illinois (-1.6%) all recorded year-over-year declines in marketing hiring.
• Georgia recorded the strongest growth in median advertised salary (+25.0% YoY), followed by Texas (+22.2%), Pennsylvania (+21.4%), New Jersey (+18.8%), and New York (+12.2%).

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• New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Houston, and Seattle were the 10 largest markets for in-house marketing hiring in Q2.
• Seattle re-entered the top 10, replacing Miami, which dropped out of the rankings.
• San Francisco recorded the strongest year-over-year hiring growth among the largest cities, with marketing job listings up 30.9%, followed by New York (+22.6%), Boston (+15.2%), Houston (+7.7%), and Chicago (+6.9%).
• Despite returning to the top 10, Seattle was the only major city to record a decline in marketing hiring, with job listings down 13.4% YoY.
• Dallas recorded the strongest growth in median advertised salary (+18.1% YoY), followed by New York (+11.1%), Los Angeles (+9.4%), Atlanta (+8.4%), Austin (+8.3%), and Chicago (+7.7%). Median salary declined only in Seattle (-7.3%).

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