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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 404 350
Rank change year-on-year -1 -54 +46
Contract jobs citing Publishing 189 75 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.80% 0.47% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 39 74
10th Percentile £294 £325 £275
25th Percentile £400 £363 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £492 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +0.92% -2.50%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £683 £869
UK median daily rate £458 £450 £448
% change year-on-year +1.78% +0.45% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 51
10th Percentile £22.50 £32.50 £33.07
25th Percentile £29.63 £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 £78.05 £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 23,575 16,000 21,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.69% 64.33% 57.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,351 10,318 13,765
10th Percentile £313 £282 £282
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,646 770 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.34 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -12.51% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.70 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.52% -9.18% -0.07%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -19 98 £453 -14.62% 66
North of England -39 38 £500 +9.59% 6
Yorkshire -34 26 £500 -13.04% 2
South West -5 21 £425 -35.85% 7
East of England -17 12 £425 - 3
Midlands -52 10 £500 +42.86% 3
West Midlands -53 10 £500 +42.86% 1
North West -36 7 £540 +18.41% 4
South East -66 6 £431 +23.21% 20
North East -31 5 £525 +23.53% 1
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 (6.35%) CMS
2 8 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.59%) Confluence
5 2 (1.06%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.06%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.53%) Drupal
6 1 (0.53%) IIS
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.17%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.65%) Adobe After Effects
3 5 (2.65%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (2.12%) InDesign
4 4 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.06%) FrameMaker
6 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.53%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.53%) SPSS
7 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.70%) Workday HCM
3 6 (3.17%) Sprinklr
4 3 (1.59%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.53%) Primavera
5 1 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.93%) Azure
2 21 (11.11%) SaaS
3 17 (8.99%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.82%) AWS
5 11 (5.82%) Figma
5 11 (5.82%) GCP
6 10 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.70%) OCI
8 5 (2.65%) Google Tag Manager
8 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.12%) Datadog
9 4 (2.12%) Lucidchart
10 3 (1.59%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.59%) Canva
10 3 (1.59%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.59%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.17%) DNS
1 6 (3.17%) Firewall
1 6 (3.17%) VPN
2 5 (2.65%) SSL
3 2 (1.06%) DHCP
3 2 (1.06%) Internet
3 2 (1.06%) Intranet
4 1 (0.53%) BGP
4 1 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.53%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.53%) HTTP
4 1 (0.53%) IPsec
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) Network Security
4 1 (0.53%) OSPF
4 1 (0.53%) SMTP
4 1 (0.53%) SNMP
4 1 (0.53%) VLAN
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
4 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) Metadata
2 15 (7.94%) Power BI
3 14 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.82%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (3.17%) GIS
6 5 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.65%) Tableau
7 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.12%) Power Query
7 4 (2.12%) Spatial Data
7 4 (2.12%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.06%) MySQL
9 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.06%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.70%) Maven
2 7 (3.70%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.12%) GitLab
3 4 (2.12%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Git
4 2 (1.06%) git-flow
4 2 (1.06%) MSI
5 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.53%) ESLint
5 1 (0.53%) Spock
5 1 (0.53%) Storybook
5 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 47 (24.87%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.40%) Finance
4 17 (8.99%) Marketing
5 14 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.23%) Advertising
7 8 (4.23%) Legal
7 8 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.70%) Banking
8 7 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.65%) Law
9 5 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Games
11 3 (1.59%) Local Government
12 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.46%) Developer
2 25 (13.23%) Analyst
3 20 (10.58%) Designer
3 20 (10.58%) Senior
4 16 (8.47%) Content Designer
5 12 (6.35%) Python Developer
6 11 (5.82%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Administrator
7 10 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (4.23%) Junior
9 8 (4.23%) Lead
10 7 (3.70%) Junior Designer
10 7 (3.70%) Report Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.17%) Perl Developer
12 5 (2.65%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (2.65%) Junior Content Designer
12 5 (2.65%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.65%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.52%) Pandas
1 18 (9.52%) Polars
2 16 (8.47%) REST
3 14 (7.41%) SAP Basis
4 12 (6.35%) GeoJSON
5 9 (4.76%) Apache Avro
5 9 (4.76%) FastAPI
5 9 (4.76%) Flask
5 9 (4.76%) JSON
5 9 (4.76%) Kafka
5 9 (4.76%) Matplotlib
5 9 (4.76%) NumPy
5 9 (4.76%) scikit-learn
6 8 (4.23%) HTML
7 7 (3.70%) Node.js
7 7 (3.70%) SLSA
7 7 (3.70%) YAML
8 5 (2.65%) React Native
9 4 (2.12%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.70%) Management Information System
1 24 (12.70%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.94%) Taxonomies
3 11 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.76%) Equities
4 9 (4.76%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.70%) Graphic Design
5 7 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (3.70%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.12%) Digital Media
7 4 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.12%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.12%) NHS
7 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.12%) Social Media
8 3 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.70%) Android
1 7 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 7 (3.70%) Windows
2 6 (3.17%) Linux
3 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 25 (13.23%) Agile
3 25 (13.23%) Analytics
4 24 (12.70%) User Experience
5 23 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (12.17%) Data Transformation
6 22 (11.64%) Data Modelling
6 22 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (11.64%) Roadmaps
7 21 (11.11%) AI
7 21 (11.11%) Observability
8 20 (10.58%) Containerisation
8 20 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (10.05%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (8.99%) Computer Science
11 17 (8.99%) Data Governance
11 17 (8.99%) Project Management
12 16 (8.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.75%) SQL
2 40 (21.16%) Python
3 15 (7.94%) Java
4 9 (4.76%) C#
4 9 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.23%) Perl
6 7 (3.70%) Groovy
7 6 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.12%) Bash
9 4 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.06%) C
10 2 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.53%) Bicep
11 1 (0.53%) C++
11 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.53%) R
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.23%) Degree
3 24 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.65%) PMP
6 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) HNC
7 2 (1.06%) HND
7 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.94%) Data Quality
3 12 (6.35%) QA
4 7 (3.70%) WCAG
5 5 (2.65%) PMO
6 4 (2.12%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.06%) GDPR
7 2 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.53%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.94%) Terraform
3 14 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.65%) Ansible
5 4 (2.12%) Grafana
5 4 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.59%) Puppet
6 3 (1.59%) systemd
6 3 (1.59%) yum
7 2 (1.06%) SCCM
8 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (10.58%) Google
1 20 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.94%) Okta
2 15 (7.94%) SAP
3 12 (6.35%) Adobe
4 8 (4.23%) Workday
5 7 (3.70%) Sonatype
6 6 (3.17%) TikTok
7 5 (2.65%) Apple
8 4 (2.12%) Oracle
8 4 (2.12%) Pinterest
8 4 (2.12%) Snapchat
9 3 (1.59%) Citrix
9 3 (1.59%) Instagram
10 2 (1.06%) ESRI
10 2 (1.06%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.06%) UiPath
10 2 (1.06%) YouTube
11 1 (0.53%) Zscaler