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 23 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 409 409
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Publishing 145 113 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.36% 0.44%
As % of the General category 0.75% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 64 103
10th Percentile £300 £246 £251
25th Percentile £358 £380 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +3.70% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £638
90th Percentile £675 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 13
10th Percentile £18.25 £25.50 £31.34
25th Percentile £21.38 £28.62 £42.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -50.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £43.00 £33.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £43.30 £45.75 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £33.25 £32.50 £60.75
% change year-on-year +2.31% -46.50% +99.18%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,313 18,728 23,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.53% 59.60% 59.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,225 11,239 16,017
10th Percentile £275 £300 £293
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 707 1,039
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £24.61 £31.62 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% -2.71% +26.41%
75th Percentile £46.00 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.50 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £24.21 £28.00 £31.76
% change year-on-year -13.55% -11.84% +27.04%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +40 90 £500 -9.09% 53
East of England 0 18 £275 +34.15% 8
North of England -52 14 £394 -22.79% 6
Midlands -21 10 £400 -27.27% 4
North West -35 10 £361 -31.19% 2
South East -2 6 £625 +78.57% 42
West Midlands -14 6 £350 -36.36% 4
East Midlands - 4 £450 -
South West -1 3 £463 +57.45% 7
Yorkshire -35 2 - - 2
North East - 2 £488 - 2
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 19 (13.10%) CMS
2 10 (6.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (6.21%) Confluence
4 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.76%) WordPress
6 3 (2.07%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.38%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.69%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.69%) Apache
8 1 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.69%) Documentum
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.59%) FrameMaker
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.38%) AutoCAD
4 2 (1.38%) MicroStation
4 2 (1.38%) Navisworks
4 2 (1.38%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.38%) Revit
5 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.69%) InDesign
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.69%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.69%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.97%) SaaS
2 12 (8.28%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.90%) Azure
4 8 (5.52%) GCP
5 7 (4.83%) AWS
6 6 (4.14%) Google Analytics
7 5 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.76%) GitHub
8 4 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.07%) Alation
9 3 (2.07%) Azure API Management
9 3 (2.07%) Contentsquare
9 3 (2.07%) dbt
9 3 (2.07%) Figma
9 3 (2.07%) Fivetran
9 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) Firewall
2 2 (1.38%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.69%) 2G
3 1 (0.69%) 4G
3 1 (0.69%) 5G
3 1 (0.69%) Internet
3 1 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) Metadata
2 12 (8.28%) Power BI
3 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.07%) Tableau
4 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.38%) Looker
4 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.69%) GIS
5 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.69%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (8.97%) JIRA
2 5 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.45%) SonarQube
2 5 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.07%) ESLint
4 2 (1.38%) Git
5 1 (0.69%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.69%) gulp
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 49 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.41%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Marketing
4 12 (8.28%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (7.59%) Banking
6 10 (6.90%) Aerospace
7 8 (5.52%) Automotive
8 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.14%) Retail
10 5 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.45%) Law
11 4 (2.76%) Advertising
11 4 (2.76%) Billing
11 4 (2.76%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.07%) Legal
12 3 (2.07%) Local Government
13 2 (1.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (11.03%) Designer
2 12 (8.28%) Author
2 12 (8.28%) Lead
2 12 (8.28%) Technical Author
3 11 (7.59%) Analyst
3 11 (7.59%) Developer
3 11 (7.59%) Project Leader
4 8 (5.52%) Business Analyst
4 8 (5.52%) Project Manager
5 7 (4.83%) Content Designer
6 6 (4.14%) Architect
7 5 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
7 5 (3.45%) Senior
8 4 (2.76%) Automation Developer
8 4 (2.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) CMS Specialist
8 4 (2.76%) DataOps Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) Financial Controller
8 4 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.34%) HTML
2 14 (9.66%) XML
3 12 (8.28%) SGML
4 5 (3.45%) .NET
4 5 (3.45%) CSS
4 5 (3.45%) React
4 5 (3.45%) REST
5 4 (2.76%) Redux
5 4 (2.76%) WPF
6 3 (2.07%) Flutter
6 3 (2.07%) Jest
6 3 (2.07%) OAuth
6 3 (2.07%) React Native
6 3 (2.07%) SAML
6 3 (2.07%) Zustand
7 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.38%) Flash
7 2 (1.38%) HTML5
7 2 (1.38%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.97%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (5.52%) Social Media
5 6 (4.14%) Blog
5 6 (4.14%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.45%) PMI
7 4 (2.76%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.76%) Genomics
7 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.76%) Omics
8 3 (2.07%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (2.07%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.07%) Podcast
8 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.07%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Windows
2 5 (3.45%) Android
3 4 (2.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.59%) Agile
2 34 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (19.31%) Decision-Making
4 27 (18.62%) Analytics
5 25 (17.24%) DevOps
6 24 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (12.41%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (12.41%) CI/CD
7 18 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (12.41%) Data Analysis
8 15 (10.34%) Project Management
9 14 (9.66%) Desktop Publishing
9 14 (9.66%) Visualisation
10 13 (8.97%) AI
10 13 (8.97%) Change Management
10 13 (8.97%) Content Management
10 13 (8.97%) Data Governance
10 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (8.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.48%) SQL
2 11 (7.59%) Python
3 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.76%) C#
5 3 (2.07%) Go
5 3 (2.07%) Java
5 3 (2.07%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (20.00%) Degree
2 14 (9.66%) HNC
2 14 (9.66%) HND
3 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (4.14%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.45%) ACCA
5 5 (3.45%) CIMA
6 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.62%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.52%) WCAG
4 3 (2.07%) QA
4 3 (2.07%) SLA
5 2 (1.38%) GDPR
5 2 (1.38%) PMO
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.21%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (9.66%) Adobe
1 14 (9.66%) Google
2 12 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.76%) Citrix
4 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.76%) UiPath
4 4 (2.76%) Xero
5 3 (2.07%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.07%) SAP
5 3 (2.07%) Xamarin
5 3 (2.07%) YouTube
6 2 (1.38%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.38%) Cisco
6 2 (1.38%) Databricks
7 1 (0.69%) Avaya
7 1 (0.69%) ESRI
7 1 (0.69%) Facebook
7 1 (0.69%) OpenText
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud