Publishing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Publishing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Publishing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 352 345
Rank change year-on-year +104 -7 -45
Contract jobs citing Publishing 99 116 303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.46% 0.69%
As % of the General category 1.12% 0.79% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 85 239
10th Percentile £211 £325 £330
25th Percentile £311 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +3.54% +16.47%
75th Percentile £498 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £670 £640
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -15.00% +1.01% +13.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 1 4
10th Percentile £37.63 - £21.20
25th Percentile - - £23.96
Median hourly rate £43.00 £40.00 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +36.12% +71.79%
75th Percentile - - £36.77
90th Percentile - - £43.96
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +58.97%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,875 14,682 24,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.79% 58.44% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,816 10,345 17,442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 336 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.99 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +53.85% +38.52%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.90
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Publishing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Publishing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Publishing.

Publishing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Publishing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Publishing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Publishing.

Publishing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Publishing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Publishing hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (15.15%) CMS
2 6 (6.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.02%) Confluence
4 2 (2.02%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.02%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.01%) Moodle
5 1 (1.01%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.01%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.04%) Acrobat
3 4 (4.04%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (4.04%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.01%) 3ds Max
4 1 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.01%) Blender
4 1 (1.01%) InDesign
4 1 (1.01%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.06%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.05%) AWS
2 5 (5.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 4 (4.04%) OCI
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Azure
4 3 (3.03%) GitHub
5 2 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.02%) Bitrise
5 2 (2.02%) GCP
6 1 (1.01%) Amplience
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.01%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.01%) npm
6 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.01%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.01%) Serverless
6 1 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) Power BI
2 4 (4.04%) Metadata
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Power View
4 2 (2.02%) PowerPivot
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) JIRA
2 4 (4.04%) Git
3 2 (2.02%) Appium
3 2 (2.02%) git-flow
3 2 (2.02%) XCTest
3 2 (2.02%) XCUITest
4 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Finance
2 19 (19.19%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.08%) Retail
5 5 (5.05%) Marketing
5 5 (5.05%) Multimedia
6 3 (3.03%) Advertising
6 3 (3.03%) Legal
6 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.02%) French Language
7 2 (2.02%) German Language
7 2 (2.02%) Italian Language
7 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Electronics
8 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (35.35%) Author
1 35 (35.35%) Technical Author
2 10 (10.10%) Content Designer
2 10 (10.10%) Designer
3 8 (8.08%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (8.08%) Senior
4 7 (7.07%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.06%) Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Consultant
6 5 (5.05%) Security Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Insight Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Report Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Illustrator
8 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.03%) IT Security Manager
8 3 (3.03%) SAP Project Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (38.38%) XML
2 35 (35.35%) SGML
3 9 (9.09%) HTML
4 8 (8.08%) CSS
5 3 (3.03%) REST
6 2 (2.02%) HTML5
6 2 (2.02%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (2.02%) React Native
6 2 (2.02%) SwiftUI
6 2 (2.02%) UIKit
7 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.01%) CSS3
7 1 (1.01%) Express.js
7 1 (1.01%) JSON
7 1 (1.01%) Node.js
7 1 (1.01%) Pandas
7 1 (1.01%) pytest
7 1 (1.01%) RESTful
7 1 (1.01%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.05%) Animation
1 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.03%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.02%) Handset
3 2 (2.02%) Photography
4 1 (1.01%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.01%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.01%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.01%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.01%) Interactive Media
4 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Android
1 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.01%) OpenVMS
2 1 (1.01%) Unix
2 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.39%) Desktop Publishing
2 23 (23.23%) Agile
3 12 (12.12%) Content Management
4 9 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 8 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (8.08%) Content Strategy
5 8 (8.08%) Security Architecture
6 7 (7.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (7.07%) Coaching
6 7 (7.07%) DevOps
6 7 (7.07%) E-Commerce
6 7 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.06%) Data Analysis
7 6 (6.06%) ITIL
7 6 (6.06%) Project Management
7 6 (6.06%) SEO
7 6 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (6.06%) User Experience
8 5 (5.05%) Data Modelling
8 5 (5.05%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.10%) SQL
2 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.02%) C#
4 2 (2.02%) Swift
5 1 (1.01%) COBOL
5 1 (1.01%) DCL
5 1 (1.01%) Python
5 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (35.35%) HNC
1 35 (35.35%) HND
2 11 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.09%) Degree
5 4 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.03%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) ISO 9001
2 4 (4.04%) PMO
3 3 (3.03%) QA
3 3 (3.03%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) AppManager
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) Adobe
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.06%) SAP
4 5 (5.05%) Oracle
5 2 (2.02%) Apple
5 2 (2.02%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) VMware
6 1 (1.01%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.01%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.01%) Remedy