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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 117 119
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 +21
Contract jobs citing Publishing 7 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.31% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.49% 0.23% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £370 £416 £255
25th Percentile £467 £485 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £426
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +40.85% -14.80%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £551
90th Percentile £813 £630 £625
Central London median daily rate £529 £600 £451
% change year-on-year -11.79% +33.19% -9.90%

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 1,418 1,306 1,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 63.33% 74.76% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 869 885
10th Percentile £357 £325 £355
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 £694 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £773 £813
Central London median daily rate £570 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +3.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 9
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.96 £13.45
25th Percentile £19.13 £23.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% +5.56% +42.11%
75th Percentile £39.38 £63.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £70.21 £103.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.82 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +5.35% +9.68% +63.16%

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 24 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 2 (28.57%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Alation
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Collibra
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) Flink
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
1 1 (14.29%) C# Quant Developer
1 1 (14.29%) CMS Business Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Content Designer
1 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Designer
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Digital Business Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Market Data Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Operations Business Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Senior User Researcher
1 1 (14.29%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
1 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
1 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Research
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) AI Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lineage
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks