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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 123 119
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing Publishing 9 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.64% 0.14% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £391 £393 £486
25th Percentile £401 £428 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £490 £775
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% -36.77% +55.00%
75th Percentile £444 £548 £906
90th Percentile £455 £579 £918
Central London median daily rate £388 £490 £650
% change year-on-year -20.92% -24.62% +36.84%

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 1,403 1,382 1,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.80% 73.67% 67.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 898 931
10th Percentile £356 £332 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £553 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -3.91% -5.74%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £808 £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 20 21 9
10th Percentile - £17.08 £19.38
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% +53.19%
75th Percentile £32.94 £63.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £53.74 £88.75 £103.75
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +13.33% +13.21%

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
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 (44.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (22.22%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Report Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Workday Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Content Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) GeoJSON
1 3 (33.33%) Matplotlib
1 3 (33.33%) Pandas
1 3 (33.33%) Polars
1 3 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
1 4 (44.44%) User Experience
1 4 (44.44%) Validation
2 3 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) User Research
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Content Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (11.11%) Data Munging
4 1 (11.11%) Diary Studies
4 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
4 1 (11.11%) Spatial Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Statistics
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Usability Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Workday