Publishing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Publishing
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 119 122
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing Publishing 5 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.36% 0.15% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £468 £393 £277
25th Percentile £490 £428 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -8.92% +7.60%
75th Percentile £813 £548 £731
90th Percentile £955 £579 £833
Central London median daily rate £550 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +12.24% +3.16% -2.56%

All General Skills
City of London

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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,385 1,336 1,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 60.77% 74.89% 68.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 886 912
10th Percentile £368 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £677 £700
90th Percentile £796 £775 £811
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 10
10th Percentile £18.75 £17.02 £13.73
25th Percentile £19.13 £24.00 £17.06
Median hourly rate £22.83 £31.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% +15.74% +50.00%
75th Percentile £32.94 £63.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £46.87 £67.89 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% +25.93% +3.85%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Publishing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Publishing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Publishing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Publishing

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in the City of London

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Publishing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Publishing

Publishing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Alation
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Collibra
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (20.00%) C# Quant Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Content Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Market Data Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Real Time Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Report Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Web Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Workday