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 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 409 353
Rank change year-on-year -14 -56 +66
Contract jobs citing Publishing 164 78 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.74% 0.50% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 39 68
10th Percentile £288 £343 £211
25th Percentile £400 £385 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £429
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.31% -14.15%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £614
90th Percentile £600 £683 £891
UK median daily rate £451 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -9.75% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 49
10th Percentile £22.50 £28.63 £36.25
25th Percentile £39.86 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.43% -18.60% +22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £81.20 £46.25 -
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £35.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +61.43% -18.60% +22.86%

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 22,176 15,681 21,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.12% 64.08% 58.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,726 10,164 13,658
10th Percentile £308 £293 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,471 678 1,777
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.43
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.45 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +11.40% -8.86% -6.75%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -24 89 £450 -14.29% 55
North of England -45 35 £500 -13.04% 12
Yorkshire -34 26 £450 -21.74% 4
South West -11 14 £425 -51.43% 13
East of England - 12 £425 - 2
West Midlands -46 11 £450 - 5
Midlands -53 11 £450 - 5
North West -36 6 £558 +17.80% 6
South East -64 4 £450 +28.57% 21
North East - 3 £525 - 3
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 12 (7.32%) CMS
2 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.44%) Confluence
4 3 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.61%) Drupal
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.83%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.61%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.61%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.61%) InDesign
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) SPSS
3 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (9.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.27%) Workday HCM
3 6 (3.66%) Sprinklr
4 3 (1.83%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.61%) Primavera
5 1 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.51%) Azure
2 22 (13.41%) SaaS
3 19 (11.59%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (6.10%) GCP
6 7 (4.27%) Figma
6 7 (4.27%) Google Tag Manager
7 5 (3.05%) AWS
7 5 (3.05%) OCI
8 3 (1.83%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.83%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.83%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.22%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.22%) Firewall
1 2 (1.22%) Intranet
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) SMTP
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.15%) Metadata
2 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.10%) Power BI
4 9 (5.49%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (3.05%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.05%) Tableau
6 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.83%) GIS
6 3 (1.83%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.22%) Looker
7 2 (1.22%) MySQL
7 2 (1.22%) Power Query
7 2 (1.22%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.22%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 8 (4.88%) JIRA
2 5 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.05%) Maven
2 5 (3.05%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.22%) git-flow
3 2 (1.22%) MSI
4 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.61%) ESLint
4 1 (0.61%) Git
4 1 (0.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.61%) Spock
4 1 (0.61%) Storybook
4 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 42 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.46%) Finance
4 15 (9.15%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (8.54%) Marketing
6 13 (7.93%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.88%) Banking
8 6 (3.66%) Advertising
8 6 (3.66%) Legal
8 6 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.05%) Law
10 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.61%) French Language
12 1 (0.61%) German Language
12 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Local Government
12 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (18.29%) Developer
2 20 (12.20%) Analyst
3 18 (10.98%) Designer
3 18 (10.98%) Senior
4 17 (10.37%) Content Designer
5 12 (7.32%) Administrator
6 11 (6.71%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.10%) Python Developer
8 9 (5.49%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (4.88%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.27%) Report Analyst
10 7 (4.27%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) Junior
11 6 (3.66%) Lead
11 6 (3.66%) Perl Developer
12 5 (3.05%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (3.05%) Junior Designer
12 5 (3.05%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.05%) SAP Administrator
12 5 (3.05%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.98%) Pandas
1 18 (10.98%) Polars
2 16 (9.76%) SAP Basis
3 15 (9.15%) REST
4 11 (6.71%) GeoJSON
4 11 (6.71%) HTML
5 9 (5.49%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.49%) FastAPI
5 9 (5.49%) Flask
5 9 (5.49%) Kafka
5 9 (5.49%) Matplotlib
5 9 (5.49%) NumPy
5 9 (5.49%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.66%) CSS
6 6 (3.66%) Node.js
7 5 (3.05%) JSON
7 5 (3.05%) React Native
7 5 (3.05%) SLSA
7 5 (3.05%) YAML
8 4 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.85%) Onboarding
2 24 (14.63%) Management Information System
3 18 (10.98%) Taxonomies
4 9 (5.49%) Equities
4 9 (5.49%) Hedge funds
5 7 (4.27%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.66%) Social Media
7 5 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.05%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.44%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (2.44%) NHS
9 3 (1.83%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.61%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.88%) Windows
2 7 (4.27%) Android
2 7 (4.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (18.29%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (17.68%) Agile
3 26 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (15.85%) Roadmaps
4 22 (13.41%) CI/CD
5 21 (12.80%) Analytics
5 21 (12.80%) Data Transformation
6 19 (11.59%) User Experience
7 18 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.37%) Data Governance
8 17 (10.37%) Observability
8 17 (10.37%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (9.76%) BPMN
9 16 (9.76%) Computer Science
9 16 (9.76%) Data Modelling
9 16 (9.76%) Internal Audit
9 16 (9.76%) Project Management
9 16 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (9.76%) Visualisation
10 15 (9.15%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.17%) SQL
2 31 (18.90%) Python
3 13 (7.93%) Java
4 10 (6.10%) C#
5 9 (5.49%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.88%) Perl
7 5 (3.05%) Groovy
7 5 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.22%) C
8 2 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.22%) R
9 1 (0.61%) Bicep
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.02%) Degree
3 19 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.44%) PMP
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.22%) HNC
6 2 (1.22%) HND
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.59%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.93%) QA
3 7 (4.27%) WCAG
4 4 (2.44%) GDPR
4 4 (2.44%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.83%) PMO
6 2 (1.22%) PERC
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 16 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (8.54%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.27%) Terraform
4 2 (1.22%) SCCM
5 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (10.37%) Google
1 17 (10.37%) Okta
1 17 (10.37%) SAP
2 12 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.71%) Adobe
4 7 (4.27%) Workday
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle
5 5 (3.05%) Sonatype
6 4 (2.44%) Apple
6 4 (2.44%) Citrix
6 4 (2.44%) Pinterest
6 4 (2.44%) Snapchat
6 4 (2.44%) TikTok
7 3 (1.83%) Facebook
7 3 (1.83%) UiPath
8 2 (1.22%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.61%) Xamarin