Marketing & Digital jobs for young people: guides, pay and how to get in

Marketing is the job of getting people to notice something, then getting them to care. The poster in the bus shelter. The email that lands the morning everyone gets paid. The video your mate sent you at midnight because it made them laugh. Somebody was paid to make every one of those. Nearly every organisation in the country needs the work done, which is why it happens inside agencies, charities, councils, football clubs, gyms, factories, universities and one-person businesses run off a kitchen table.

Now the honest bit, because no prospectus will give it to you. Marketing hires later than retail or hospitality. Very few employers hand a campaign to a 16-year-old, so the ones who say yes at that age are usually small local businesses who want their social accounts looking alive. Seventeen and eighteen is when the doors properly open: apprenticeships, junior assistant roles, agency jobs that start with the unglamorous tasks. That gap isn't dead time though. It's the window where you build the thing that gets you hired later - a folder of stuff you actually made. Marketing is one of the few sectors where you can prove you can do the job before anyone has ever employed you.

The seven guides below take you from a blank page to a first offer.

How to get your first marketing job with no experience - the pillar guide. What employers screen for when your CV is nearly empty, where the junior roles actually hide and how to build proof out of nothing.

What do entry-level marketing jobs pay in the UK? - the age bands explained properly, what genuinely lifts a junior marketing wage and the perks that outlive the payslip.

Marketing jobs explained: what you'd actually do all day - three junior roles walked through as real days, the myths flattened and an honest look at who enjoys this work.

Marketing CV and cover letter example for school leavers - a one-page CV skeleton with lines you can adapt tonight, a worked letter and the portfolio link that does half your talking.

10 common marketing interview questions (and how to answer them) - what each question is really testing plus how to build answers out of things you've genuinely made.

Marketing jobs you can get at 16 (and at 18) - what's realistically open before 18, the hours rules in plain English and everything that changes on your eighteenth birthday.

Apprenticeship, college or straight in? Routes into marketing jobs - the three routes compared without the sales pitch, including which qualifications employers genuinely look at.

Read whichever one answers the question keeping you stuck. Then do something small the same evening: write three captions for a shop you like, redesign a local poster, start the folder. Employers in this sector hire people who make things, so every hour you spend making one is an hour of interview material. Our board refreshes around the clock with junior roles, apprenticeships and assistant jobs from across the UK, so when you're ready, browse live marketing jobs and get your name in front of somebody this week.