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 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 396 366
Rank change year-on-year -63 -30 +37
Contract jobs citing Publishing 181 103 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.38% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.70% 0.58% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 50 61
10th Percentile £305 £325 £350
25th Percentile £404 £374 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% -10.88% +6.60%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £610
90th Percentile £641 £694 £731
UK median daily rate £488 £469 £513
% change year-on-year +4.00% -8.58% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 44
10th Percentile £14.85 £29.85 £31.80
25th Percentile £23.25 £34.48 -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £42.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.90% -2.33% -40.69%
75th Percentile £42.28 £43.00 -
90th Percentile £49.63 £43.75 -
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £41.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.11% -3.49% -37.45%

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 25,874 17,612 18,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.90% 64.23% 58.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,203 11,142 11,529
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,011 945
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +33.97%
75th Percentile £57.00 £46.47 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £29.78 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +18.41% -28.87% +28.58%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -35 105 £509 -4.06% 325
North of England -52 26 £500 +9.59% 32
Yorkshire -26 20 £500 -13.04% 10
South West -20 19 £425 -35.85% 20
South East -58 11 £460 +31.43% 64
Midlands -48 9 £402 +14.86% 13
West Midlands -46 5 £400 +14.29% 10
East Midlands -14 4 £425 -5.67% 3
North East -32 4 £394 -7.35% 3
North West -55 2 £562 +23.07% 19
East of England -47 1 £500 +51.52% 24
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 35 (19.34%) CMS
2 10 (5.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (4.97%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.87%) Headless CMS
5 6 (3.31%) Confluence
6 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
7 4 (2.21%) Apache
7 4 (2.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (2.21%) WordPress
8 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.66%) Drupal
8 3 (1.66%) Jupyter
8 3 (1.66%) Umbraco
9 2 (1.10%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (2.76%) Photoshop
2 4 (2.21%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.66%) InDesign
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.55%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.55%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.55%) SPSS
5 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Shopify
2 2 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.10%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.13%) AWS
2 20 (11.05%) GCP
3 17 (9.39%) Power Platform
4 16 (8.84%) Azure
5 12 (6.63%) Adobe Analytics
6 10 (5.52%) Figma
7 9 (4.97%) GitHub
7 9 (4.97%) OCI
8 8 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.87%) Google Analytics
10 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.31%) Bloomreach
10 6 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.76%) Collibra
11 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.21%) Canva
12 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) DNS
1 6 (3.31%) SSL
1 6 (3.31%) VPN
2 5 (2.76%) Firewall
3 2 (1.10%) Internet
3 2 (1.10%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) BGP
4 1 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.55%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.55%) IPsec
4 1 (0.55%) Junos
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) NFC
4 1 (0.55%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.55%) OSPF
4 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.55%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.81%) Metadata
2 17 (9.39%) Power BI
3 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.76%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.76%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.76%) Power Query
6 5 (2.76%) Star Schema
6 5 (2.76%) Tableau
7 4 (2.21%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.21%) GIS
8 3 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.66%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.66%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.10%) Tableau Desktop
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.55%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (8.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.52%) JIRA
2 10 (5.52%) Maven
3 9 (4.97%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.21%) Git
4 4 (2.21%) GitLab
4 4 (2.21%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (0.55%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.55%) Gradle
5 1 (0.55%) JUnit
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) Storybook
General
1 54 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.23%) Finance
3 24 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.05%) Marketing
4 20 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.08%) Advertising
6 8 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.87%) Legal
7 7 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.76%) Banking
8 5 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.76%) Local Government
8 5 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.21%) Games
10 3 (1.66%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.66%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.66%) Retail
11 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (17.13%) Developer
2 24 (13.26%) Senior
3 19 (10.50%) Analyst
4 16 (8.84%) Designer
5 13 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.18%) Lead
6 12 (6.63%) Content Designer
7 10 (5.52%) Architect
7 10 (5.52%) Python Developer
8 8 (4.42%) Junior
8 8 (4.42%) Web Specialist
9 7 (3.87%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.87%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) Junior Designer
9 7 (3.87%) Kafka Developer
9 7 (3.87%) Marketing Specialist
9 7 (3.87%) Technical Specialist
9 7 (3.87%) Web Marketing Specialist
10 6 (3.31%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.31%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.05%) HTML
2 19 (10.50%) Terraform
3 18 (9.94%) CSS
4 17 (9.39%) REST
5 13 (7.18%) JSON
5 13 (7.18%) Node.js
6 10 (5.52%) YAML
7 9 (4.97%) SLSA
8 8 (4.42%) Kafka
8 8 (4.42%) RESTful
9 7 (3.87%) Apache Avro
9 7 (3.87%) FastAPI
9 7 (3.87%) Flask
9 7 (3.87%) NumPy
9 7 (3.87%) Pandas
9 7 (3.87%) Polars
10 5 (2.76%) PySpark
11 4 (2.21%) OAuth
11 4 (2.21%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.21%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.42%) Graphic Design
4 7 (3.87%) Equities
4 7 (3.87%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.87%) Taxonomies
5 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.31%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.31%) Replication
6 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.21%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.66%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.31%) Linux
2 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.07%) Analytics
2 43 (23.76%) Agile
3 37 (20.44%) AI
3 37 (20.44%) CI/CD
4 35 (19.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (14.92%) User Experience
6 25 (13.81%) Data Modelling
7 24 (13.26%) DevOps
8 22 (12.15%) Migration
9 21 (11.60%) Content Management
9 21 (11.60%) UX Design
10 20 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (11.05%) Decision-Making
10 20 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (10.50%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (9.94%) Containerisation
12 18 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (9.94%) Roadmaps
13 17 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (8.84%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.89%) Python
2 33 (18.23%) SQL
3 19 (10.50%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.63%) Java
5 9 (4.97%) Groovy
6 5 (2.76%) Bash
6 5 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.21%) C#
8 3 (1.66%) PHP
9 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.10%) R
9 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.29%) Degree
4 8 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.76%) PMP
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CBAP
8 1 (0.55%) CCSAS
8 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PhD
8 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.05%) Accessibility
1 20 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.08%) WCAG
3 8 (4.42%) QA
4 6 (3.31%) PMO
5 4 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.10%) GDPR
6 2 (1.10%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.10%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.10%) SLA
7 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (7.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (13.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.31%) Ansible
2 6 (3.31%) Grafana
3 5 (2.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.21%) systemd
5 3 (1.66%) Puppet
5 3 (1.66%) yum
6 1 (0.55%) Kibana
6 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.71%) Google
3 16 (8.84%) Adobe
4 10 (5.52%) Sonatype
5 6 (3.31%) Apple
6 4 (2.21%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.21%) Optimizely
6 4 (2.21%) Sitecore
6 4 (2.21%) Tealium
7 3 (1.66%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.66%) Oracle
8 2 (1.10%) Citrix
8 2 (1.10%) Databricks
8 2 (1.10%) ESRI
8 2 (1.10%) Instagram
8 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.10%) TikTok
8 2 (1.10%) UiPath
8 2 (1.10%) YouTube
9 1 (0.55%) BiZZdesign