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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 412 362
Rank change year-on-year -31 -50 +56
Contract jobs citing Publishing 177 94 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.34% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.71% 0.54% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 46 69
10th Percentile £288 £325 £319
25th Percentile £401 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £469 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -12.05% +8.22%
75th Percentile £564 £599 £613
90th Percentile £602 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 45
10th Percentile - £32.50 £31.43
25th Percentile £22.50 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.01 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -16.26% +22.86%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.81 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £43.00 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% -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 24,793 17,544 19,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.30% 63.79% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,857 11,215 12,627
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £416 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
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 1,857 927 1,344
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.31 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.39 £17.44
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.88 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £32.90 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +30.83% -32.93% +22.79%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -23 98 £453 -14.62% 58
North of England -51 31 £500 +9.59% 15
South West -20 20 £425 -35.85% 3
Yorkshire -26 20 £500 -13.04% 5
South East -62 11 £460 +31.43% 19
West Midlands -52 10 £450 +28.57% 6
Midlands -55 10 £450 +28.57% 7
North East -41 6 £413 -2.94%
North West -50 5 £579 +26.85% 10
East of England -27 1 £500 +51.52% 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 20 (11.30%) CMS
2 7 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 3 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
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
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Photoshop
2 4 (2.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (2.26%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.26%) InDesign
2 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.56%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.56%) SPSS
5 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Workday HCM
2 6 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.39%) Sprinklr
3 3 (1.69%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (1.69%) Shopify
4 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Primavera
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.12%) Azure
2 20 (11.30%) AWS
3 18 (10.17%) GCP
4 15 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 14 (7.91%) SaaS
6 10 (5.65%) Figma
7 9 (5.08%) OCI
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (4.52%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.95%) GitHub
10 5 (2.82%) Adobe Analytics
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%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.26%) Lucidchart
11 4 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.69%) Apigee
12 3 (1.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) DNS
1 5 (2.82%) Firewall
1 5 (2.82%) SSL
1 5 (2.82%) VPN
2 2 (1.13%) Internet
2 2 (1.13%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) BGP
3 1 (0.56%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
3 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) IPsec
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) OSPF
3 1 (0.56%) SMTP
3 1 (0.56%) SNMP
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.47%) Metadata
1 15 (8.47%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.91%) Power BI
3 11 (6.21%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.39%) Tableau
6 5 (2.82%) GIS
6 5 (2.82%) Power Query
6 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.26%) Spatial Data
7 4 (2.26%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.69%) Tableau Desktop
9 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.13%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.13%) MySQL
9 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.13%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.56%) SQLite
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
4 3 (1.69%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (1.13%) MSI
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 48 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.64%) Finance
4 18 (10.17%) Marketing
5 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.08%) Legal
7 8 (4.52%) Advertising
7 8 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.39%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.26%) Games
10 4 (2.26%) Local Government
10 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.69%) Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Law
12 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.13%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (17.51%) Developer
2 26 (14.69%) Analyst
3 20 (11.30%) Senior
4 18 (10.17%) Designer
5 14 (7.91%) Content Designer
6 12 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.78%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.21%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Lead
8 9 (5.08%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (4.52%) Junior
10 7 (3.95%) Junior Designer
10 7 (3.95%) Report Analyst
10 7 (3.95%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.39%) Administrator
11 6 (3.39%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) Architect
12 5 (2.82%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.82%) Support Manager
12 5 (2.82%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.86%) REST
2 18 (10.17%) Pandas
2 18 (10.17%) Polars
3 13 (7.34%) HTML
4 12 (6.78%) GeoJSON
4 12 (6.78%) JSON
5 11 (6.21%) Node.js
6 10 (5.65%) CSS
7 9 (5.08%) Apache Avro
7 9 (5.08%) FastAPI
7 9 (5.08%) Flask
7 9 (5.08%) Kafka
7 9 (5.08%) Matplotlib
7 9 (5.08%) NumPy
7 9 (5.08%) scikit-learn
7 9 (5.08%) SLSA
7 9 (5.08%) YAML
8 6 (3.39%) SAP Basis
9 4 (2.26%) SOAP
9 4 (2.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Management Information System
2 16 (9.04%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.08%) Equities
3 9 (5.08%) Hedge funds
4 8 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.95%) Graphic Design
5 7 (3.95%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (3.95%) Taxonomies
6 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.82%) Social Media
8 4 (2.26%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.39%) Linux
2 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.26%) Windows
3 2 (1.13%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.21%) Agile
1 34 (19.21%) Analytics
2 29 (16.38%) User Experience
3 28 (15.82%) CI/CD
4 26 (14.69%) AI
5 23 (12.99%) Containerisation
5 23 (12.99%) Data Transformation
6 22 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (11.86%) Data Modelling
7 21 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (10.73%) DevOps
9 19 (10.73%) Roadmaps
10 18 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (10.17%) Decision-Making
10 18 (10.17%) UX Design
11 17 (9.60%) Project Management
12 16 (9.04%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.73%) Python
2 39 (22.03%) SQL
3 13 (7.34%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.78%) Java
5 9 (5.08%) Groovy
6 4 (2.26%) Bash
6 4 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.69%) C#
7 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.13%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.13%) PHP
8 2 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.56%) Bicep
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.56%) R
9 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.69%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.73%) Degree
4 7 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.39%) PMP
6 4 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.69%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CBAP
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.17%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.04%) Accessibility
3 15 (8.47%) QA
4 7 (3.95%) WCAG
5 6 (3.39%) PMO
6 4 (2.26%) JSP 440
7 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.13%) GDPR
9 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (9.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.56%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.30%) Terraform
3 6 (3.39%) 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 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (14.12%) Google
2 20 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.34%) Adobe
4 9 (5.08%) Sonatype
5 8 (4.52%) Workday
6 7 (3.95%) Okta
6 7 (3.95%) SAP
7 6 (3.39%) TikTok
8 5 (2.82%) Optimizely
8 5 (2.82%) Oracle
9 4 (2.26%) Pinterest
9 4 (2.26%) Snapchat
10 3 (1.69%) Amplitude
10 3 (1.69%) Citrix
10 3 (1.69%) Instagram
10 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.69%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.69%) Tealium
11 2 (1.13%) ESRI
11 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow