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 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 126 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +21
Contract jobs citing Publishing 10 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.11% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.71% 0.15% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £398 £393 £526
25th Percentile £419 £428 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £490 £900
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% -45.56% +80.00%
75th Percentile £531 £548 £925
90th Percentile £572 £579 -
Central London median daily rate £423 £490 £900
% change year-on-year -13.72% -45.56% +84.62%

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 1,408 1,372 1,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.40% 73.72% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 878 970
10th Percentile £356 £331 £349
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% -3.27% -6.50%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £688
90th Percentile £813 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 10
10th Percentile - £17.02 £19.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.92
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% -13.91% +118.84%
75th Percentile £38.75 £63.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £52.49 £89.88 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £34.24 £33.00
% change year-on-year -26.75% +3.76% +83.33%

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 22 July 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (20.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Report Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Workday Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) GeoJSON
1 3 (30.00%) Matplotlib
1 3 (30.00%) Pandas
1 3 (30.00%) Polars
1 3 (30.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (10.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (40.00%) User Experience
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (10.00%) Diary Studies
4 1 (10.00%) Interaction Design
4 1 (10.00%) LLM
4 1 (10.00%) Product Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (10.00%) Spatial Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Workday