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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 411 355
Rank change year-on-year -15 -56 +45
Contract jobs citing Publishing 184 73 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.30% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.79% 0.46% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 37 75
10th Percentile £290 £350 £275
25th Percentile £400 £385 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £690 £863
UK median daily rate £467 £456 £425
% change year-on-year +2.25% +7.35% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 6 51
10th Percentile £22.50 £32.50 £33.07
25th Percentile £33.94 £32.63 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -18.60% +22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £78.58 £46.25 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -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 23,266 15,824 21,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.49% 64.34% 57.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,208 10,200 13,785
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £635 £641 £650
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,610 744 1,827
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.38 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.17 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.39% -11.90% +4.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.81 £52.64
90th Percentile £81.17 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £28.15 £30.50
% change year-on-year +11.90% -7.70% -4.57%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -13 97 £453 -13.81% 47
North of England -30 38 £500 +8.11% 8
Yorkshire -28 26 £500 -13.04% 3
South West -4 18 £425 -51.43% 8
East of England -16 12 £425 - 2
West Midlands -44 10 £500 - 1
Midlands -50 10 £500 +11.11% 2
North West -35 7 £540 +16.81% 5
North East -30 5 £525 +23.53% 1
South East -63 5 £450 +28.57% 17
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 (6.52%) CMS
2 7 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.63%) Confluence
5 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.54%) Drupal
6 1 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.26%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.72%) Adobe After Effects
3 5 (2.72%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (2.17%) InDesign
4 4 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (1.09%) FrameMaker
6 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.54%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.54%) SPSS
7 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.80%) Workday HCM
3 6 (3.26%) Sprinklr
4 3 (1.63%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.54%) Primavera
5 1 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.39%) Azure
2 21 (11.41%) SaaS
3 17 (9.24%) Entra ID
4 15 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.98%) AWS
5 11 (5.98%) Figma
6 10 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (5.43%) GCP
7 7 (3.80%) OCI
8 5 (2.72%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (2.17%) Datadog
9 4 (2.17%) Lucidchart
9 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.63%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.63%) Canva
10 3 (1.63%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) DNS
2 6 (3.26%) VPN
3 5 (2.72%) SSL
4 2 (1.09%) DHCP
4 2 (1.09%) Internet
4 2 (1.09%) Intranet
5 1 (0.54%) BGP
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.54%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.54%) HTTP
5 1 (0.54%) IPsec
5 1 (0.54%) LAN
5 1 (0.54%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) OSPF
5 1 (0.54%) SMTP
5 1 (0.54%) SNMP
5 1 (0.54%) VLAN
5 1 (0.54%) WAN
5 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) Metadata
1 15 (8.15%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.61%) Power BI
3 11 (5.98%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (3.26%) GIS
4 6 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.72%) Tableau
6 4 (2.17%) Spatial Data
7 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.63%) Power Query
7 3 (1.63%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.09%) MySQL
8 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.09%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.80%) Maven
2 7 (3.80%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.17%) GitLab
3 4 (2.17%) JIRA
4 2 (1.09%) Git
4 2 (1.09%) git-flow
4 2 (1.09%) MSI
5 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.54%) ESLint
5 1 (0.54%) Spock
5 1 (0.54%) Storybook
5 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 46 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.85%) Finance
4 16 (8.70%) Marketing
5 15 (8.15%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.35%) Banking
7 8 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.80%) Advertising
8 7 (3.80%) Legal
9 6 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.72%) Law
10 5 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Games
12 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.09%) Local Government
13 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.54%) Retail
13 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.93%) Developer
2 23 (12.50%) Analyst
3 20 (10.87%) Designer
3 20 (10.87%) Senior
4 16 (8.70%) Content Designer
5 12 (6.52%) Python Developer
6 11 (5.98%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Administrator
7 10 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (4.35%) Junior
9 8 (4.35%) Lead
10 7 (3.80%) Junior Designer
10 7 (3.80%) Report Analyst
10 7 (3.80%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.26%) Perl Developer
12 5 (2.72%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (2.72%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.72%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.72%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.78%) Pandas
1 18 (9.78%) Polars
2 16 (8.70%) REST
3 14 (7.61%) SAP Basis
4 12 (6.52%) GeoJSON
5 9 (4.89%) Apache Avro
5 9 (4.89%) FastAPI
5 9 (4.89%) Flask
5 9 (4.89%) HTML
5 9 (4.89%) Kafka
5 9 (4.89%) Matplotlib
5 9 (4.89%) NumPy
5 9 (4.89%) scikit-learn
6 8 (4.35%) JSON
7 7 (3.80%) Node.js
7 7 (3.80%) SLSA
7 7 (3.80%) YAML
8 5 (2.72%) React Native
9 4 (2.17%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.04%) Management Information System
1 24 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.15%) Taxonomies
3 11 (5.98%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.89%) Equities
4 9 (4.89%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.80%) Graphic Design
5 7 (3.80%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (3.80%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.17%) Digital Media
7 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.17%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.17%) NHS
7 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.17%) Social Media
8 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.80%) Android
1 7 (3.80%) Apple iOS
1 7 (3.80%) Windows
2 6 (3.26%) Linux
3 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (16.85%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (14.67%) CI/CD
3 24 (13.04%) Agile
3 24 (13.04%) Analytics
4 23 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (12.50%) User Experience
5 22 (11.96%) Data Modelling
5 22 (11.96%) Data Transformation
6 21 (11.41%) Observability
7 20 (10.87%) AI
7 20 (10.87%) Containerisation
7 20 (10.87%) Roadmaps
8 19 (10.33%) Performance Tuning
9 18 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (9.24%) Computer Science
10 17 (9.24%) Visualisation
11 16 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (8.70%) Data Governance
11 16 (8.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.37%) SQL
2 40 (21.74%) Python
3 14 (7.61%) Java
4 9 (4.89%) C#
4 9 (4.89%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.35%) Perl
6 7 (3.80%) Groovy
7 6 (3.26%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.72%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.17%) Bash
10 3 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.09%) C
11 2 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.54%) Bicep
12 1 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.54%) R
12 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.59%) Degree
3 23 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.72%) PMP
6 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.09%) HNC
7 2 (1.09%) HND
7 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.78%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.61%) Data Quality
3 11 (5.98%) QA
4 7 (3.80%) WCAG
5 4 (2.17%) JSP 440
5 4 (2.17%) PMO
6 2 (1.09%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (7.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.54%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.15%) Terraform
3 14 (7.61%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.72%) Ansible
5 4 (2.17%) Grafana
5 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.63%) Puppet
6 3 (1.63%) systemd
6 3 (1.63%) yum
7 2 (1.09%) SCCM
8 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (10.33%) Google
1 19 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.15%) Okta
2 15 (8.15%) SAP
3 12 (6.52%) Adobe
4 8 (4.35%) Workday
5 7 (3.80%) Sonatype
6 6 (3.26%) TikTok
7 5 (2.72%) Apple
7 5 (2.72%) Oracle
8 4 (2.17%) Pinterest
8 4 (2.17%) Snapchat
9 3 (1.63%) Citrix
9 3 (1.63%) Instagram
10 2 (1.09%) ESRI
10 2 (1.09%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.09%) UiPath
10 2 (1.09%) YouTube
11 1 (0.54%) BiZZdesign