Publishing Contract Job Trends in England

Publishing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 388 390
Rank change year-on-year -85 +2 +28
Contract jobs citing Publishing 179 124 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.67% 0.69% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 61 61
10th Percentile £307 £300 £315
25th Percentile £402 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £600
90th Percentile £655 £675 £731
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 26
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £23.68 -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.14% -19.81% -37.45%
75th Percentile £34.50 £43.00 -
90th Percentile £45.40 £43.38 -
UK median hourly rate £37.09 £34.48 £43.00
% change year-on-year +7.57% -19.81% -33.85%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,662 18,038 18,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.95% 63.95% 58.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,529 11,459 11,342
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,080 797
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.36 £16.45 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.51 £70.27 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £26.84 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year +7.36% -21.88% +7.56%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Publishing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Publishing job vacancy trend in England

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Publishing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Publishing

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Publishing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Publishing

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the England region over the 6 months to 16 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -57 107 £536 -2.62% 38
North of England -50 25 £500 +11.11% 5
Yorkshire -18 17 £500 -13.04%
South West -21 16 £425 -8.11% 6
South East -51 12 £460 +31.43% 9
Midlands -52 7 £425 +21.29% 5
East Midlands -6 4 £425 -5.67%
North East -35 4 £394 -7.35% 3
North West -48 4 £562 +24.78% 2
West Midlands -49 3 - - 5
East of England -44 1 £450 +63.64% 4
Publishing
UK

Publishing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 36 (20.11%) CMS
2 11 (6.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (5.59%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.91%) Confluence
4 7 (3.91%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.79%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (2.23%) Apache
6 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.23%) WordPress
7 3 (1.68%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.68%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.12%) ArcGIS
8 2 (1.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.35%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.79%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.79%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.23%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (2.23%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.68%) InDesign
5 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.56%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.56%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.56%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Shopify
2 2 (1.12%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.76%) AWS
2 21 (11.73%) Power Platform
3 19 (10.61%) Azure
4 18 (10.06%) GCP
5 13 (7.26%) Adobe Analytics
6 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.03%) GitHub
6 9 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (3.91%) Copilot Studio
7 7 (3.91%) Figma
7 7 (3.91%) Google Analytics
7 7 (3.91%) OCI
8 6 (3.35%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.35%) Bloomreach
8 6 (3.35%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.35%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.79%) Collibra
10 4 (2.23%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) DNS
2 6 (3.35%) SSL
2 6 (3.35%) VPN
3 5 (2.79%) Firewall
4 2 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.12%) Internet
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.56%) Intranet
5 1 (0.56%) IPsec
5 1 (0.56%) Junos
5 1 (0.56%) NFC
5 1 (0.56%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.56%) OSPF
5 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.56%) SNMP
5 1 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.85%) Metadata
2 18 (10.06%) Power BI
3 11 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.35%) Power Query
4 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.79%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.79%) Star Schema
5 5 (2.79%) Tableau
6 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.23%) GIS
6 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.68%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.12%) Tableau Desktop
9 1 (0.56%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 13 (7.26%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.03%) JIRA
3 8 (4.47%) Maven
4 7 (3.91%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.79%) GitLab
6 4 (2.23%) Git
6 4 (2.23%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.56%) Gradle
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Finance
3 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.73%) Marketing
4 21 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.70%) Advertising
6 9 (5.03%) Legal
7 7 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Banking
8 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.79%) Local Government
8 5 (2.79%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.23%) Games
9 4 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.23%) Retail
10 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.68%) Military
10 3 (1.68%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 25 (13.97%) Developer
1 25 (13.97%) Senior
2 19 (10.61%) Analyst
3 13 (7.26%) Architect
4 12 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (6.70%) Lead
5 11 (6.15%) Designer
5 11 (6.15%) Web Specialist
6 7 (3.91%) Business Analyst
6 7 (3.91%) Content Designer
6 7 (3.91%) Marketing Specialist
6 7 (3.91%) Project Manager
6 7 (3.91%) Web Marketing Specialist
7 6 (3.35%) Data Engineer
7 6 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.79%) Consultant
8 5 (2.79%) Python Developer
8 5 (2.79%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (2.79%) Technical Specialist
9 4 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.85%) HTML
2 21 (11.73%) CSS
3 20 (11.17%) Terraform
4 14 (7.82%) REST
5 11 (6.15%) JSON
6 9 (5.03%) Node.js
7 8 (4.47%) RESTful
7 8 (4.47%) YAML
8 7 (3.91%) SLSA
9 5 (2.79%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.79%) JWT
9 5 (2.79%) Semantic HTML
10 4 (2.23%) .NET
10 4 (2.23%) Kafka
10 4 (2.23%) OAuth
10 4 (2.23%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.23%) PySpark
10 4 (2.23%) SAML
10 4 (2.23%) XML
11 3 (1.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.26%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.03%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.47%) Graphic Design
4 7 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.91%) Replication
5 6 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.35%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.35%) Taxonomies
6 5 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.23%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.23%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.68%) Blog
8 3 (1.68%) Equities
8 3 (1.68%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.68%) NHS
8 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.35%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.68%) Windows
4 2 (1.12%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.56%) macOS
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.93%) Analytics
2 43 (24.02%) Agile
3 42 (23.46%) AI
4 37 (20.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (18.99%) CI/CD
6 27 (15.08%) DevOps
7 25 (13.97%) Data Modelling
8 23 (12.85%) Content Management
8 23 (12.85%) Decision-Making
8 23 (12.85%) Migration
8 23 (12.85%) User Experience
9 21 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (10.61%) Roadmaps
10 19 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.50%) UX Design
13 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (7.26%) Containerisation
14 13 (7.26%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.32%) Python
1 31 (17.32%) SQL
2 22 (12.29%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.47%) Java
4 7 (3.91%) Groovy
5 6 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (2.79%) Bash
7 4 (2.23%) C#
8 3 (1.68%) Bicep
8 3 (1.68%) PHP
8 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.12%) R
9 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.38%) Degree
4 10 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.79%) PMP
6 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.12%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.56%) CCSAS
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.73%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.94%) Accessibility
3 11 (6.15%) WCAG
4 9 (5.03%) QA
5 4 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.23%) PMO
6 2 (1.12%) GDPR
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.12%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.56%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (7.26%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.47%) Grafana
3 6 (3.35%) Ansible
3 6 (3.35%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.23%) systemd
5 3 (1.68%) Puppet
5 3 (1.68%) yum
6 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.29%) Google
3 17 (9.50%) Adobe
4 8 (4.47%) Sonatype
5 7 (3.91%) Apple
6 5 (2.79%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.23%) Amplitude
7 4 (2.23%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.23%) Optimizely
7 4 (2.23%) Tealium
8 3 (1.68%) Oracle
8 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.12%) Cisco
9 2 (1.12%) Citrix
9 2 (1.12%) ESRI
9 2 (1.12%) Foundry
9 2 (1.12%) Instagram
9 2 (1.12%) SAP
9 2 (1.12%) UiPath
9 2 (1.12%) YouTube