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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 420 360
Rank change year-on-year -13 -60 +43
Contract jobs citing Publishing 182 96 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.35% 0.50%
As % of the General category 0.72% 0.54% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 43 67
10th Percentile £285 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £353 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -17.05% +14.21%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £616
90th Percentile £654 £718 £731
UK median daily rate £476 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.67% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 43
10th Percentile - £32.50 £31.61
25th Percentile £22.50 £33.37 -
Median hourly rate £35.50 £41.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -3.49% +22.86%
75th Percentile £63.13 £43.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £43.75 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £41.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -14.46% -3.49% +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 25,236 17,763 19,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.38% 64.25% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,042 11,313 12,322
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
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 1,997 961 1,234
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.97 £16.50 £18.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £70.99
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +31.45%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -36 103 £475 -10.38% 116
North of England -38 32 £500 +11.11% 17
Yorkshire -20 22 £500 -13.04% 3
South West -21 19 £425 -35.85% 3
South East -56 12 £460 +31.43% 27
West Midlands -36 10 £450 +28.57% 6
Midlands -49 10 £450 +28.57% 9
North East -37 6 £413 -2.94% 1
North West -45 4 £579 +28.61% 13
East of England -33 1 £500 +51.52% 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 25 (13.74%) CMS
2 8 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.20%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (2.20%) WordPress
5 3 (1.65%) Apache
5 3 (1.65%) Confluence
5 3 (1.65%) Drupal
5 3 (1.65%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.10%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.10%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.55%) IIS
7 1 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Photoshop
2 4 (2.20%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (2.20%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.20%) InDesign
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.20%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) SPSS
4 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (3.30%) Sprinklr
2 4 (2.20%) Shopify
3 3 (1.65%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (1.65%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.55%) Primavera
4 1 (0.55%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.19%) Azure
2 23 (12.64%) AWS
3 18 (9.89%) GCP
4 15 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 14 (7.69%) SaaS
6 10 (5.49%) Figma
6 10 (5.49%) OCI
7 8 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.40%) GitHub
8 6 (3.30%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.30%) Google Analytics
9 5 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.75%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.20%) Canva
10 4 (2.20%) Datadog
10 4 (2.20%) Lucidchart
10 4 (2.20%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) DNS
1 6 (3.30%) SSL
2 5 (2.75%) Firewall
2 5 (2.75%) VPN
3 2 (1.10%) Internet
3 2 (1.10%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) BGP
4 1 (0.55%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.55%) Broadband
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.55%) HTTP
4 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.55%) IPsec
4 1 (0.55%) LAN
4 1 (0.55%) OSPF
4 1 (0.55%) SMTP
4 1 (0.55%) SNMP
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.89%) Metadata
2 15 (8.24%) Power BI
2 15 (8.24%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.40%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.30%) Tableau
6 5 (2.75%) GIS
6 5 (2.75%) Power Query
6 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.20%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.65%) Spatial Data
8 3 (1.65%) Tableau Desktop
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.10%) MySQL
9 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.04%) Maven
3 10 (5.49%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.75%) GitLab
4 5 (2.75%) JIRA
5 4 (2.20%) Git
5 4 (2.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (1.10%) MSI
7 1 (0.55%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.55%) Gradle
7 1 (0.55%) JUnit
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.55%) Spock
7 1 (0.55%) Storybook
7 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 51 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (19.23%) Finance
4 20 (10.99%) Marketing
5 17 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.95%) Legal
6 9 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.40%) Advertising
8 7 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.20%) Games
10 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.20%) Local Government
10 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.65%) Banking
11 3 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.65%) Retail
12 2 (1.10%) Front Office
12 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (18.68%) Developer
2 23 (12.64%) Analyst
2 23 (12.64%) Senior
3 18 (9.89%) Designer
4 14 (7.69%) Content Designer
5 13 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.59%) Lead
6 12 (6.59%) Python Developer
7 9 (4.95%) Kafka Developer
8 8 (4.40%) Junior
9 7 (3.85%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.85%) Junior Designer
9 7 (3.85%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) Administrator
11 5 (2.75%) Architect
11 5 (2.75%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.75%) Content Manager
11 5 (2.75%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.75%) Support Manager
11 5 (2.75%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.09%) REST
2 18 (9.89%) HTML
3 14 (7.69%) CSS
3 14 (7.69%) JSON
3 14 (7.69%) Node.js
3 14 (7.69%) Pandas
3 14 (7.69%) Polars
4 11 (6.04%) YAML
5 10 (5.49%) SLSA
6 9 (4.95%) Apache Avro
6 9 (4.95%) FastAPI
6 9 (4.95%) Flask
6 9 (4.95%) Kafka
6 9 (4.95%) NumPy
7 8 (4.40%) GeoJSON
8 6 (3.30%) SAP Basis
9 5 (2.75%) Matplotlib
9 5 (2.75%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.75%) Semantic HTML
10 4 (2.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.34%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.79%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.95%) Equities
3 9 (4.95%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.85%) Graphic Design
4 7 (3.85%) Taxonomies
5 6 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.30%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.30%) Social Media
6 5 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.65%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.10%) Blog
9 2 (1.10%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.10%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.85%) Linux
2 5 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.20%) Windows
4 2 (1.10%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (20.88%) Agile
1 38 (20.88%) Analytics
2 32 (17.58%) CI/CD
3 28 (15.38%) AI
4 27 (14.84%) User Experience
5 23 (12.64%) Containerisation
5 23 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (11.54%) DevOps
8 20 (10.99%) Data Transformation
8 20 (10.99%) Roadmaps
9 19 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (10.44%) Data Modelling
9 19 (10.44%) Decision-Making
9 19 (10.44%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (10.44%) UX Design
10 17 (9.34%) Migration
10 17 (9.34%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.98%) Python
2 35 (19.23%) SQL
3 16 (8.79%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.69%) Java
5 10 (5.49%) Groovy
6 5 (2.75%) Bash
6 5 (2.75%) C#
7 4 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.65%) PHP
9 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.10%) R
9 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.55%) Bicep
10 1 (0.55%) C++
10 1 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.99%) Degree
4 6 (3.30%) PMP
5 5 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.65%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CBAP
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) PhD
8 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.89%) Accessibility
2 17 (9.34%) Data Quality
3 12 (6.59%) QA
4 9 (4.95%) WCAG
5 6 (3.30%) PMO
6 4 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.65%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.10%) GDPR
9 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (9.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.55%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.09%) Terraform
3 6 (3.30%) Ansible
3 6 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.75%) Grafana
4 5 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.20%) systemd
6 3 (1.65%) Puppet
6 3 (1.65%) yum
7 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (14.29%) Google
2 23 (12.64%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.69%) Adobe
4 11 (6.04%) Sonatype
5 7 (3.85%) Okta
5 7 (3.85%) SAP
6 6 (3.30%) Optimizely
6 6 (3.30%) TikTok
7 5 (2.75%) Oracle
8 4 (2.20%) Amplitude
8 4 (2.20%) Pinterest
8 4 (2.20%) Sitecore
8 4 (2.20%) Snapchat
8 4 (2.20%) Tealium
8 4 (2.20%) Workday
9 3 (1.65%) Citrix
9 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.10%) ESRI
10 2 (1.10%) Instagram
10 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow