Publishing Contracts in Berkshire

Publishing
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 122 114
Rank change year-on-year +36 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Publishing 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 0.10% 0.055%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.18% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £288 - -
25th Percentile £313 - £685
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £710
Median % change year-on-year - - +173.08%
75th Percentile - - £735
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £350 £413 £458
% change year-on-year -15.15% -9.84% +7.65%

All General Skills
Berkshire

Publishing falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 739 1,127 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 63.00% 56.80% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 551 708
10th Percentile £300 £205 £325
25th Percentile £413 £325 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
75th Percentile £632 £589 £631
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 87 27
10th Percentile £19.91 £22.75 £19.10
25th Percentile £30.25 £42.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%
75th Percentile £65.62 £69.47 £68.11
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in Berkshire

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Publishing in Berkshire

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in Berkshire

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +33 4 £350 -
Wokingham - 3 £325 -
Publishing
South East

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (42.86%) CMS
1 3 (42.86%) Umbraco
2 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Power Query
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Content Editor
1 3 (42.86%) Web Content Editor
1 3 (42.86%) Web Editor
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Trainer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Babylonjs
2 1 (14.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) 3D Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Content Development
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) R
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
1 1 (14.29%) XMLA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Sitecore