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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 121 118
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +29
Contract jobs citing Publishing 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.26% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £468 £393 £466
25th Percentile £490 £428 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -24.62% +52.94%
75th Percentile £813 £548 £788
90th Percentile £955 £579 £855
Central London median daily rate £550 £490 £563
% change year-on-year +12.24% -12.89% +18.42%

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 1,396 1,377 1,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 59.66% 74.35% 67.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 902 921
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £686 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 10
10th Percentile - £17.08 £13.73
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £17.06
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +5.56% +53.19%
75th Percentile £36.81 £63.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £56.24 £65.57 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.55% +11.24% +18.68%

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 19 August 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 3 (50.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Alation
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Collibra
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Report Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Workday Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Quant Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Content Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Market Data Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Real Time Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience
1 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) AI Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Master Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Workday
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft