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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 430 367
Rank change year-on-year +6 -63 +51
Contract jobs citing Publishing 177 81 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.30% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.71% 0.47% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 43 73
10th Percentile £288 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £463 £509
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -9.05% +1.70%
75th Percentile £559 £595 £600
90th Percentile £600 £765 £823
UK median daily rate £460 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.22% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 48
10th Percentile £22.50 £30.05 £31.57
25th Percentile £23.25 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £40.19 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% -19.81% +22.86%
75th Percentile £65.94 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £41.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.19 £34.48 £43.00
% change year-on-year +16.55% -19.81% +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 24,762 17,335 20,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.22% 63.61% 57.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,855 11,073 13,039
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.05% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,816 906 1,501
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.36 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.16 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% -26.74% +19.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.10 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £25.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.41% -27.14% +14.75%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -17 97 £453 -11.27% 46
North of England -49 33 £500 +9.59% 9
Yorkshire -34 21 £500 -13.04% 2
South West -19 20 £425 -35.85% 3
Midlands -43 10 £450 +28.57% 2
West Midlands -46 10 £450 +28.57% 1
South East -68 9 £455 +30.00% 13
North East -36 7 £413 -2.94%
North West -48 5 £579 +26.85% 7
East of England -24 2 £425 +28.79% 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 17 (9.60%) CMS
2 7 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 3 (1.69%) WordPress
5 2 (1.13%) Apache
5 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.13%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.13%) Drupal
5 2 (1.13%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.82%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (2.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.26%) InDesign
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.26%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.56%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.56%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.56%) SPSS
6 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (3.95%) Workday HCM
2 6 (3.39%) Sprinklr
3 3 (1.69%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (1.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.56%) Primavera
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.25%) Azure
2 20 (11.30%) AWS
3 16 (9.04%) GCP
3 16 (9.04%) Power Platform
4 15 (8.47%) SaaS
5 11 (6.21%) Figma
6 10 (5.65%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.08%) OCI
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.95%) GitHub
10 5 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.82%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.26%) Datadog
11 4 (2.26%) Lucidchart
11 4 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (1.69%) Apigee
12 3 (1.69%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.39%) DNS
1 6 (3.39%) Firewall
1 6 (3.39%) VPN
2 5 (2.82%) SSL
3 2 (1.13%) DHCP
3 2 (1.13%) Internet
3 2 (1.13%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) IPsec
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) NFC
4 1 (0.56%) OSPF
4 1 (0.56%) SMTP
4 1 (0.56%) SNMP
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.47%) Metadata
1 15 (8.47%) Power BI
1 15 (8.47%) Relational Database
2 11 (6.21%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.82%) GIS
3 5 (2.82%) Power Query
3 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.82%) Tableau
4 4 (2.26%) Spatial Data
4 4 (2.26%) Star Schema
5 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.13%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.13%) MySQL
6 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.13%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.08%) Maven
2 9 (5.08%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.26%) GitLab
3 4 (2.26%) JIRA
4 3 (1.69%) Git
5 2 (1.13%) MSI
5 2 (1.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.56%) Gradle
6 1 (0.56%) JUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.56%) Spock
6 1 (0.56%) Storybook
6 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 49 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.64%) Finance
4 16 (9.04%) Marketing
5 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.65%) Legal
7 9 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.52%) Advertising
8 8 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.26%) Games
11 4 (2.26%) Local Government
11 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.69%) Banking
13 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.13%) Law
13 2 (1.13%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (18.08%) Developer
2 26 (14.69%) Analyst
3 19 (10.73%) Designer
3 19 (10.73%) Senior
4 15 (8.47%) Content Designer
5 12 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.78%) Python Developer
6 11 (6.21%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.21%) Lead
7 9 (5.08%) Kafka Developer
8 8 (4.52%) Junior
9 7 (3.95%) Administrator
9 7 (3.95%) Junior Designer
9 7 (3.95%) Report Analyst
9 7 (3.95%) Workday Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.82%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Conversion Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Digital Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Junior Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.86%) REST
2 18 (10.17%) Pandas
2 18 (10.17%) Polars
3 12 (6.78%) GeoJSON
3 12 (6.78%) HTML
3 12 (6.78%) JSON
4 11 (6.21%) Node.js
5 9 (5.08%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.08%) FastAPI
5 9 (5.08%) Flask
5 9 (5.08%) Kafka
5 9 (5.08%) Matplotlib
5 9 (5.08%) NumPy
5 9 (5.08%) scikit-learn
5 9 (5.08%) SLSA
5 9 (5.08%) YAML
6 8 (4.52%) CSS
7 7 (3.95%) SAP Basis
8 5 (2.82%) Semantic HTML
9 4 (2.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Management Information System
1 17 (9.60%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.08%) Equities
2 9 (5.08%) Hedge funds
3 8 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.52%) Taxonomies
4 7 (3.95%) Graphic Design
4 7 (3.95%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.26%) Digital Media
7 4 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.26%) Social Media
8 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.13%) NHS
9 2 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.39%) Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Android
5 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (18.64%) Agile
2 31 (17.51%) Analytics
3 29 (16.38%) User Experience
4 28 (15.82%) CI/CD
5 26 (14.69%) AI
6 23 (12.99%) Containerisation
6 23 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (12.99%) Data Transformation
7 21 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (10.73%) Data Modelling
8 19 (10.73%) DevOps
8 19 (10.73%) Roadmaps
9 18 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (10.17%) UX Design
10 17 (9.60%) Decision-Making
10 17 (9.60%) Observability
10 17 (9.60%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (24.29%) Python
2 38 (21.47%) SQL
3 12 (6.78%) Java
3 12 (6.78%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.08%) Groovy
5 4 (2.26%) Bash
5 4 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.69%) C#
6 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.13%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.13%) PHP
7 2 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.56%) Bicep
8 1 (0.56%) C++
8 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.56%) R
8 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.69%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.30%) Degree
4 7 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.39%) PMP
6 4 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.60%) Accessibility
1 17 (9.60%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.04%) QA
3 8 (4.52%) WCAG
4 6 (3.39%) PMO
5 4 (2.26%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.13%) GDPR
6 2 (1.13%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (9.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.56%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.30%) Terraform
3 7 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.82%) Ansible
5 4 (2.26%) Grafana
5 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.69%) Puppet
6 3 (1.69%) systemd
6 3 (1.69%) yum
7 2 (1.13%) SCCM
8 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (12.43%) Google
2 21 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.78%) Adobe
4 9 (5.08%) Sonatype
5 8 (4.52%) Okta
5 8 (4.52%) SAP
5 8 (4.52%) Workday
6 6 (3.39%) TikTok
7 5 (2.82%) Oracle
8 4 (2.26%) Optimizely
8 4 (2.26%) Pinterest
8 4 (2.26%) Snapchat
9 3 (1.69%) Citrix
9 3 (1.69%) Instagram
9 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.13%) ESRI
10 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.13%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.13%) UiPath
10 2 (1.13%) YouTube