Publishing Contracts in England

Publishing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Publishing over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 391 404
Rank change year-on-year +43 +13 -29
Contract jobs citing Publishing 190 247 422
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.52% 0.60%
As % of the General category 0.90% 0.87% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 156 318
10th Percentile £215 £325 £281
25th Percentile £320 £421 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +0.96% +10.06%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £608
90th Percentile £881 £683 £652
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £496
% change year-on-year -15.00% +0.91% +15.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 9 12
10th Percentile £36.25 £17.56 £19.88
25th Percentile - £17.75 £24.44
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +37.78%
75th Percentile - - £38.94
90th Percentile - £41.60 £48.35
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +61.04%

All General Skills
England

Publishing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,183 28,259 40,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.97% 59.24% 56.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,642 19,851 28,140
10th Percentile £281 £315 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £795 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,801 909 1,292
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +48.84% +2.14%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.63 £45.84
90th Percentile £66.74 £70.00 £59.34
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.93%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +4 78 £521 -0.76% 88
East of England +61 66 £400 -30.43% 14
North of England +25 14 £410 -18.00% 22
North West +21 13 £410 -15.46% 18
South West +14 12 £425 -10.05% 4
South East +12 11 £413 -16.46% 43
Midlands +23 10 £268 -40.56% 17
West Midlands -2 5 £434 -3.67% 11
East Midlands - 5 £173 - 5
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 5
Publishing
UK

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (12.11%) CMS
2 22 (11.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (3.16%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (3.16%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (2.63%) Drupal
6 3 (1.58%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.05%) Confluence
8 1 (0.53%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.53%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.21%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.63%) Acrobat
4 5 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.11%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (6.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.63%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.05%) Endur
4 2 (1.05%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.53%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.53%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.47%) AWS
2 14 (7.37%) Power Platform
3 11 (5.79%) Azure
4 5 (2.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (2.11%) GCP
5 4 (2.11%) OCI
5 4 (2.11%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 4 (2.11%) Serverless
6 3 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.58%) Figma
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.05%) Bitrise
7 2 (1.05%) GitHub
8 1 (0.53%) Amplience
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.53%) Discord
8 1 (0.53%) Miro
8 1 (0.53%) Pendo
8 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) DMZ
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) Intranet
2 1 (0.53%) MPLS
2 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.11%) Metadata
2 14 (7.37%) Power BI
2 14 (7.37%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.84%) Data Vault
3 13 (6.84%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.21%) Pentaho
5 8 (4.21%) Qlik Sense
5 8 (4.21%) QlikView
5 8 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (3.16%) PowerPivot
6 6 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.11%) Big Data
7 4 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.58%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.53%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 10 (5.26%) JIRA
2 5 (2.63%) Git
3 4 (2.11%) ERwin
4 2 (1.05%) Appium
4 2 (1.05%) git-flow
4 2 (1.05%) XCTest
4 2 (1.05%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (15.26%) Finance
2 27 (14.21%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.53%) Marketing
5 12 (6.32%) Retail
6 10 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.68%) Electronics
7 7 (3.68%) Multimedia
7 7 (3.68%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.63%) Legal
10 3 (1.58%) Advertising
10 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Front Office
11 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Local Government
11 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (33.68%) Author
1 64 (33.68%) Technical Author
2 21 (11.05%) Architect
3 17 (8.95%) Data Architect
3 17 (8.95%) Project Manager
4 10 (5.26%) Developer
4 10 (5.26%) Senior
5 9 (4.74%) Designer
6 8 (4.21%) Analyst
6 8 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (4.21%) Digital Project Manager
7 6 (3.16%) Content Designer
7 6 (3.16%) SharePoint Engineer
8 5 (2.63%) Content Manager
8 5 (2.63%) Digital Content Manager
8 5 (2.63%) SAP Manager
8 5 (2.63%) Security Manager
9 4 (2.11%) Data Manager
9 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (2.11%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (34.21%) XML
2 64 (33.68%) SGML
3 14 (7.37%) HTML
4 12 (6.32%) CSS
5 5 (2.63%) React
6 4 (2.11%) .NET
7 3 (1.58%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.58%) REST
7 3 (1.58%) RESTful
8 2 (1.05%) JSON
8 2 (1.05%) Kafka
8 2 (1.05%) Node.js
8 2 (1.05%) React Native
8 2 (1.05%) SwiftUI
8 2 (1.05%) UIKit
9 1 (0.53%) Middleware
9 1 (0.53%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.53%) Spring
9 1 (0.53%) XSD
9 1 (0.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.95%) Reference Data
2 9 (4.74%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.11%) Animation
5 4 (2.11%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (2.11%) Freedom of Information Act
5 4 (2.11%) Handset
6 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.58%) Social Media
6 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.05%) Podcast
8 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.53%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.58%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) OpenVMS
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) VMS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.79%) Desktop Publishing
2 37 (19.47%) Agile
3 27 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (11.58%) Content Management
4 22 (11.58%) Data Modelling
5 21 (11.05%) Project Management
6 17 (8.95%) User Experience
7 16 (8.42%) Project Delivery
8 14 (7.37%) Data Architecture
8 14 (7.37%) Data Lineage
9 13 (6.84%) SEO
9 13 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (6.84%) UML
10 12 (6.32%) Migration
11 11 (5.79%) E-Commerce
12 10 (5.26%) Analytics
12 10 (5.26%) Coaching
12 10 (5.26%) Mentoring
12 10 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (4.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.16%) SQL
2 11 (5.79%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.21%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.68%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.58%) Python
5 3 (1.58%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.58%) VBA
6 2 (1.05%) C#
6 2 (1.05%) Swift
7 1 (0.53%) COBOL
7 1 (0.53%) DCL
7 1 (0.53%) Java
7 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.53%) Scala
7 1 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 64 (33.68%) HNC
1 64 (33.68%) HND
2 27 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 24 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 23 (12.11%) Degree
5 5 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.58%) PhD
6 3 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.05%) PMP
7 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.37%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.84%) QA
3 9 (4.74%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.21%) PMO
5 5 (2.63%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.05%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Ansible
2 1 (0.53%) AppManager
2 1 (0.53%) Control-M
2 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.89%) Oracle
2 15 (7.89%) SAP
3 14 (7.37%) Adobe
4 13 (6.84%) Sparx
5 8 (4.21%) Informatica
5 8 (4.21%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.68%) VMware
7 4 (2.11%) Hotjar
7 4 (2.11%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (1.58%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.58%) Google
9 2 (1.05%) Apple
9 2 (1.05%) OpenLink
9 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.05%) Trayport
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco
10 1 (0.53%) Remedy
10 1 (0.53%) Sybase
10 1 (0.53%) Twitter