Publishing Contracts in the Midlands

Publishing
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 139 182
Rank change year-on-year +12 +43 -29
Contract jobs citing Publishing 10 24 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.69% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.66% 1.24% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 13
10th Percentile - £315 £280
25th Percentile £166 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% - +135.29%
75th Percentile £441 £534 £495
90th Percentile £495 £655 £506
England median daily rate £425 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -19.05% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.50
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £31.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +37.78%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,508 1,940 2,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 54.98% 56.09% 54.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 1,365 2,051
10th Percentile £203 £214 £220
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +3.78% +15.63%
75th Percentile £611 £588 £550
90th Percentile £735 £680 £656
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 85 106
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £13.89 £13.31 £12.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.64% +5.86%
75th Percentile £38.44 £32.00 £24.19
90th Percentile £54.00 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.81 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.82% +61.91% -4.44%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
West Midlands +10 5 £434 -3.67% 8
East Midlands - 5 £173 - 5
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (40.00%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) OCI
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Discord
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Insight Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Report Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Copywriter
3 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Copywriter
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Dask
1 1 (10.00%) Keras
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Handset
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (40.00%) Content Management
1 4 (40.00%) Copywriting
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) SEO
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Content Writing
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Physics
3 1 (10.00%) SDLC
3 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle