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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 417 369
Rank change year-on-year -44 -48 +46
Contract jobs citing Publishing 177 103 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.37% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.69% 0.58% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 50 61
10th Percentile £304 £325 £350
25th Percentile £403 £374 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -10.88% +6.60%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £610
90th Percentile £644 £694 £731
UK median daily rate £476 £469 £513
% change year-on-year +1.44% -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 25,746 17,734 19,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.84% 64.30% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,134 11,211 11,658
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 2,252 1,018 958
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.17 £17.30
Median hourly rate £31.00 £25.15 £38.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% -34.35% +29.86%
75th Percentile £57.06 £46.94 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.49 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -28.14% +27.27%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -44 102 £509 -4.06% 427
North of England -50 26 £500 +9.59% 31
Yorkshire -21 20 £500 -13.04% 9
South West -22 19 £425 -35.85% 17
South East -58 11 £460 +31.43% 59
Midlands -44 9 £402 +14.86% 15
West Midlands -44 5 £400 +14.29% 11
East Midlands -14 4 £425 -5.67% 4
North East -37 4 £394 -7.35% 3
North West -53 2 £562 +23.07% 19
East of England -42 1 £500 +51.52% 22
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 33 (18.64%) CMS
2 9 (5.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.39%) Confluence
3 6 (3.39%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.26%) Apache
5 4 (2.26%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (2.26%) WordPress
6 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.69%) Drupal
6 3 (1.69%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.13%) ArcGIS
7 2 (1.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (2.82%) Photoshop
2 4 (2.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.69%) InDesign
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.56%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.56%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.56%) SPSS
5 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Shopify
2 2 (1.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.13%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.95%) AWS
2 20 (11.30%) GCP
3 17 (9.60%) Power Platform
4 16 (9.04%) Azure
5 11 (6.21%) Adobe Analytics
6 10 (5.65%) Figma
7 9 (5.08%) GitHub
7 9 (5.08%) OCI
8 8 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.95%) Google Analytics
10 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.82%) Bloomreach
11 5 (2.82%) Collibra
11 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.26%) Canva
12 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.26%) Serverless
12 4 (2.26%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.39%) DNS
1 6 (3.39%) SSL
1 6 (3.39%) VPN
2 5 (2.82%) Firewall
3 2 (1.13%) Internet
3 2 (1.13%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.56%) Broadband
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.56%) IPsec
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) OSPF
4 1 (0.56%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.56%) SNMP
4 1 (0.56%) VLAN
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.56%) Metadata
2 17 (9.60%) Power BI
3 11 (6.21%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.82%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.82%) Power Query
5 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.82%) Star Schema
5 5 (2.82%) Tableau
6 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.26%) GIS
7 3 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.69%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.69%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.13%) Tableau Desktop
9 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.65%) JIRA
2 10 (5.65%) Maven
3 9 (5.08%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.26%) Git
4 4 (2.26%) GitLab
4 4 (2.26%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.56%) Gradle
5 1 (0.56%) JUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Storybook
General
1 53 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.64%) Finance
3 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.73%) Marketing
4 19 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.65%) Advertising
6 7 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.95%) Legal
6 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.82%) Banking
7 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.26%) Games
8 4 (2.26%) Local Government
9 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.69%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.69%) Retail
10 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (16.95%) Developer
2 24 (13.56%) Senior
3 19 (10.73%) Analyst
4 16 (9.04%) Designer
5 13 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.34%) Lead
6 12 (6.78%) Content Designer
7 10 (5.65%) Python Developer
8 9 (5.08%) Architect
9 8 (4.52%) Junior
10 7 (3.95%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.95%) Junior Designer
10 7 (3.95%) Kafka Developer
10 7 (3.95%) Web Specialist
11 6 (3.39%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Marketing Specialist
11 6 (3.39%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.39%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Technical Specialist
11 6 (3.39%) Web Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.73%) HTML
1 19 (10.73%) Terraform
2 17 (9.60%) CSS
2 17 (9.60%) REST
3 13 (7.34%) JSON
3 13 (7.34%) Node.js
4 10 (5.65%) YAML
5 9 (5.08%) SLSA
6 8 (4.52%) Kafka
6 8 (4.52%) RESTful
7 7 (3.95%) Apache Avro
7 7 (3.95%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.95%) Flask
7 7 (3.95%) NumPy
7 7 (3.95%) Pandas
7 7 (3.95%) Polars
8 5 (2.82%) PySpark
9 4 (2.26%) OAuth
9 4 (2.26%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.04%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.52%) Graphic Design
4 7 (3.95%) Equities
4 7 (3.95%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.39%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.39%) Taxonomies
6 5 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.82%) Replication
7 4 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.26%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.69%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.39%) Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.13%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.12%) Analytics
2 41 (23.16%) Agile
3 37 (20.90%) CI/CD
4 36 (20.34%) AI
5 34 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (14.69%) User Experience
7 24 (13.56%) Data Modelling
7 24 (13.56%) DevOps
8 21 (11.86%) UX Design
9 20 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (11.30%) Decision-Making
9 20 (11.30%) Migration
9 20 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (10.73%) Content Management
10 19 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (10.17%) Containerisation
11 18 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.17%) Roadmaps
12 16 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (8.47%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.77%) Python
2 31 (17.51%) SQL
3 18 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.78%) Java
5 9 (5.08%) Groovy
6 5 (2.82%) Bash
6 5 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.26%) C#
8 3 (1.69%) PHP
9 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.13%) R
9 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.47%) Degree
4 7 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.82%) PMP
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.13%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.56%) CCSAS
8 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.30%) Accessibility
1 20 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.21%) WCAG
3 8 (4.52%) QA
4 6 (3.39%) PMO
5 4 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.13%) GDPR
6 2 (1.13%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.13%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.13%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.56%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (7.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.39%) Ansible
2 6 (3.39%) Grafana
3 5 (2.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.26%) systemd
5 3 (1.69%) Puppet
5 3 (1.69%) yum
6 1 (0.56%) Kibana
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.99%) Google
3 15 (8.47%) Adobe
4 10 (5.65%) Sonatype
5 5 (2.82%) Apple
6 4 (2.26%) Amplitude
6 4 (2.26%) Optimizely
6 4 (2.26%) Sitecore
6 4 (2.26%) Tealium
7 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.69%) Oracle
8 2 (1.13%) Citrix
8 2 (1.13%) Databricks
8 2 (1.13%) ESRI
8 2 (1.13%) Instagram
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.13%) TikTok
8 2 (1.13%) UiPath
8 2 (1.13%) YouTube
9 1 (0.56%) Okta