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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 125 121
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing Publishing 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.34% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.14% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £405 £393 £466
25th Percentile £436 £428 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £490 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -24.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £694 £548 £788
90th Percentile £908 £579 £855
Central London median daily rate £458 £490 £563
% change year-on-year -6.53% -12.89% +15.38%

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 1,397 1,382 1,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.99% 73.98% 67.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 909 928
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £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 10
10th Percentile - £17.08 £13.73
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £17.06
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% +50.00%
75th Percentile £32.94 £63.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £53.74 £88.75 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% +25.93% -1.82%

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 12 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 (37.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Alation
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Collibra
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Report Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Workday Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Quant Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Market Data Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Real Time Developer
3 1 (12.50%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) GeoJSON
1 1 (12.50%) Matplotlib
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) Polars
1 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Derivative
1 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Analytics
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
1 3 (37.50%) User Experience
1 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (12.50%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (12.50%) Content Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lineage
3 1 (12.50%) Data Munging
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Diary Studies
3 1 (12.50%) Master Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata Management
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
3 1 (12.50%) Spatial Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Workday
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft