Publishing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Publishing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Publishing over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 356 360
Rank change year-on-year +99 +4 -25
Contract jobs citing Publishing 139 86 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.38% 0.50%
As % of the General category 1.25% 0.67% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 105
10th Percentile £206 £292 £268
25th Percentile £321 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.26% +5.56% +25.87%
75th Percentile £425 £575 £537
90th Percentile £550 £707 £608
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +15.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 4 7
10th Percentile £36.94 - £24.81
25th Percentile - - £30.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +102.28%
75th Percentile - - £34.89
90th Percentile - - £41.70
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +63.16%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,133 12,891 17,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.65% 56.26% 55.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,295 8,755 11,877
10th Percentile £205 £229 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,687 724 1,043
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £28.07 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +43.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £36.08
90th Percentile £67.38 £68.75 £55.97
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +44.00% +5.88%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in the UK excluding London

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Publishing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Publishing in the UK excluding London

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in the UK excluding London

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Publishing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in the UK excluding London

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Publishing in the UK excluding London

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
East of England +59 66 £400 -30.43% 14
Scotland +59 25 £350 -6.67% 5
North of England +23 17 £391 -21.80% 30
North West +10 16 £391 -19.38% 23
South West +10 11 - - 6
Midlands +15 10 £268 -40.56% 10
South East +9 10 £413 -7.04% 17
West Midlands +3 5 £434 -3.67% 8
East Midlands - 5 £173 - 2
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 7
Publishing
UK

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.55%) SharePoint
2 12 (8.63%) CMS
3 6 (4.32%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (4.32%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (3.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.72%) EPiServer
Applications
1 22 (15.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (13.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.88%) Acrobat
3 4 (2.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.88%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (2.88%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.44%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.72%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.79%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (8.63%) Yammer
3 5 (3.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 4 (2.88%) OCI
4 4 (2.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 4 (2.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (0.72%) AWS
5 1 (0.72%) Discord
5 1 (0.72%) GCP
5 1 (0.72%) Google App Engine
5 1 (0.72%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) DNS
1 1 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.35%) Metadata
2 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Power View
2 6 (4.32%) PowerPivot
2 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.88%) Power BI
4 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) JIRA
General
1 24 (17.27%) Public Sector
2 23 (16.55%) Finance
3 18 (12.95%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.76%) Retail
6 7 (5.04%) Marketing
6 7 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.60%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.44%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Advertising
9 1 (0.72%) Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Electronics
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (46.04%) Author
1 64 (46.04%) Technical Author
2 18 (12.95%) Analyst
3 12 (8.63%) Change Analyst
4 9 (6.47%) Content Designer
4 9 (6.47%) Designer
5 7 (5.04%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (5.04%) Senior
6 6 (4.32%) SharePoint Engineer
7 5 (3.60%) Project Manager
7 5 (3.60%) SAP Manager
7 5 (3.60%) Security Manager
8 4 (2.88%) Insight Analyst
8 4 (2.88%) Report Analyst
8 4 (2.88%) Senior Content Designer
8 4 (2.88%) Senior Designer
8 4 (2.88%) Technical Illustrator
9 3 (2.16%) Digital Project Manager
9 3 (2.16%) Senior Delivery Manager
9 3 (2.16%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (48.20%) XML
2 64 (46.04%) SGML
3 12 (8.63%) CSS
3 12 (8.63%) HTML
4 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.72%) CSS3
4 1 (0.72%) Dask
4 1 (0.72%) Express.js
4 1 (0.72%) HTML5
4 1 (0.72%) Keras
4 1 (0.72%) Node.js
4 1 (0.72%) NumPy
4 1 (0.72%) Pandas
4 1 (0.72%) PySpark
4 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.72%) React
4 1 (0.72%) REST
4 1 (0.72%) RESTful
4 1 (0.72%) RxJS
4 1 (0.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.88%) Animation
1 4 (2.88%) Handset
2 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.72%) Life Science
3 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
3 1 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Android
1 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (48.92%) Desktop Publishing
2 21 (15.11%) Agile
3 15 (10.79%) Change Management
4 14 (10.07%) Coaching
5 12 (8.63%) Content Management
5 12 (8.63%) Infographics
5 12 (8.63%) Project Management
5 12 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (7.19%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (6.47%) ITIL
8 8 (5.76%) E-Commerce
8 8 (5.76%) Statistics
9 7 (5.04%) Mentoring
9 7 (5.04%) Security Architecture
10 6 (4.32%) Information Architecture
10 6 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (4.32%) Metadata Management
10 6 (4.32%) SEO
11 5 (3.60%) Data Management
11 5 (3.60%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.19%) JavaScript
1 10 (7.19%) SQL
2 6 (4.32%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.72%) Python
3 1 (0.72%) Scala
3 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (46.04%) HNC
1 64 (46.04%) HND
2 14 (10.07%) Degree
3 13 (9.35%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.91%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.16%) PhD
6 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) PMO
2 6 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.60%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.44%) ISO 14001
4 2 (1.44%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.72%) AppManager
Vendors
1 19 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.19%) Adobe
3 8 (5.76%) SAP
4 7 (5.04%) VMware
5 4 (2.88%) Oracle
6 1 (0.72%) Google
6 1 (0.72%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.72%) Optimizely