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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 421 374
Rank change year-on-year -25 -47 +41
Contract jobs citing Publishing 176 78 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.29% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.71% 0.45% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 41 76
10th Percentile £288 £325 £305
25th Percentile £400 £356 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £569 £591 £600
90th Percentile £600 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £460 £450 £449
% change year-on-year +2.22% +0.22% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 52
10th Percentile £22.50 £30.05 £31.85
25th Percentile £24.00 £32.50 £41.66
Median hourly rate £41.50 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.36% -19.81% +22.86%
75th Percentile £63.13 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £41.00 -
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £34.48 £43.00
% change year-on-year +20.36% -19.81% +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 24,762 17,330 20,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.29% 63.70% 57.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,893 11,096 13,302
10th Percentile £313 £282 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 899 1,606
10th Percentile £14.37 £13.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.36 £16.06
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.53% -24.43% +14.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.22 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £26.21 £33.29
% change year-on-year +25.91% -21.26% +8.61%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -34 98 £453 -10.40% 35
North of England -51 31 £514 +12.66% 9
South West -24 20 £425 -35.85% 4
Yorkshire -24 20 £500 -13.04% 3
West Midlands -52 10 £500 +42.86%
Midlands -53 10 £500 +42.86% 1
South East -63 8 £450 +28.57% 10
North East -32 6 £469 +10.29%
North West -49 5 £579 +26.85% 6
East of England -20 4 £425 +203.57% 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 16 (9.09%) CMS
2 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.70%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.14%) Drupal
5 2 (1.14%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.14%) WordPress
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.84%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (2.84%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.27%) InDesign
3 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.14%) FrameMaker
5 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.57%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.57%) SPSS
6 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (3.98%) Workday HCM
2 6 (3.41%) Sprinklr
3 3 (1.70%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.57%) Primavera
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.77%) Azure
2 16 (9.09%) AWS
2 16 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 15 (8.52%) SaaS
4 13 (7.39%) GCP
5 11 (6.25%) Figma
6 10 (5.68%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.98%) OCI
9 6 (3.41%) GitHub
10 5 (2.84%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (2.27%) Datadog
11 4 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.27%) Lucidchart
11 4 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.70%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.70%) Canva
12 3 (1.70%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.14%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) DNS
1 6 (3.41%) Firewall
1 6 (3.41%) VPN
2 5 (2.84%) SSL
3 2 (1.14%) DHCP
3 2 (1.14%) Internet
3 2 (1.14%) Intranet
4 1 (0.57%) BGP
4 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.57%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.57%) HTTP
4 1 (0.57%) IPsec
4 1 (0.57%) Junos
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) NFC
4 1 (0.57%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.57%) OSPF
4 1 (0.57%) SNMP
4 1 (0.57%) VLAN
4 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) Power BI
1 15 (8.52%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.39%) Metadata
3 11 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.84%) GIS
4 5 (2.84%) Power Query
4 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.84%) Tableau
5 4 (2.27%) Spatial Data
5 4 (2.27%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.14%) MySQL
7 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.57%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.98%) Maven
2 7 (3.98%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.27%) GitLab
3 4 (2.27%) JIRA
4 3 (1.70%) Git
5 2 (1.14%) MSI
6 1 (0.57%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.57%) Gradle
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.57%) Spock
6 1 (0.57%) Storybook
6 1 (0.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 47 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.75%) Finance
4 16 (9.09%) Marketing
5 14 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.68%) Legal
7 9 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.55%) Advertising
8 8 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.27%) Games
11 4 (2.27%) Local Government
12 3 (1.70%) Banking
12 3 (1.70%) Law
12 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (17.05%) Developer
2 26 (14.77%) Analyst
3 21 (11.93%) Designer
4 19 (10.80%) Senior
5 17 (9.66%) Content Designer
6 12 (6.82%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Lead
8 10 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Kafka Developer
10 8 (4.55%) Junior
11 7 (3.98%) Administrator
11 7 (3.98%) Junior Designer
11 7 (3.98%) Report Analyst
11 7 (3.98%) Workday Analyst
12 5 (2.84%) Conversion Analyst
12 5 (2.84%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (2.84%) Junior Content Designer
12 5 (2.84%) Support Manager
12 5 (2.84%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.36%) REST
2 18 (10.23%) Pandas
2 18 (10.23%) Polars
3 12 (6.82%) GeoJSON
4 10 (5.68%) HTML
4 10 (5.68%) JSON
5 9 (5.11%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.11%) FastAPI
5 9 (5.11%) Flask
5 9 (5.11%) Kafka
5 9 (5.11%) Matplotlib
5 9 (5.11%) NumPy
5 9 (5.11%) scikit-learn
6 8 (4.55%) Node.js
7 7 (3.98%) SAP Basis
7 7 (3.98%) SLSA
7 7 (3.98%) YAML
8 6 (3.41%) CSS
8 6 (3.41%) XML
9 4 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.23%) Management Information System
2 17 (9.66%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.11%) Equities
3 9 (5.11%) Hedge funds
4 8 (4.55%) Taxonomies
5 7 (3.98%) Graphic Design
5 7 (3.98%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.27%) Digital Media
8 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.27%) Social Media
9 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.70%) NHS
9 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.70%) Android
5 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.18%) Agile
2 30 (17.05%) Analytics
3 28 (15.91%) User Experience
4 24 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 23 (13.07%) AI
5 23 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (13.07%) Data Transformation
6 22 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 22 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (10.80%) Data Modelling
7 19 (10.80%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (10.23%) Roadmaps
9 17 (9.66%) Decision-Making
9 17 (9.66%) Observability
9 17 (9.66%) Project Management
9 17 (9.66%) UX Design
10 16 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.30%) Python
2 38 (21.59%) SQL
3 10 (5.68%) Java
4 9 (5.11%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.98%) Groovy
6 4 (2.27%) Bash
6 4 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.70%) C#
7 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.14%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.57%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) C++
9 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.57%) PHP
9 1 (0.57%) R
9 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.93%) Degree
4 7 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.41%) PMP
6 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.14%) HNC
7 2 (1.14%) HND
7 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CBAP
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) Accessibility
2 16 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 15 (8.52%) QA
4 7 (3.98%) WCAG
5 6 (3.41%) PMO
6 4 (2.27%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.14%) GDPR
7 2 (1.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 15 (8.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.57%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (11.93%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.66%) Terraform
3 7 (3.98%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.84%) Ansible
5 4 (2.27%) Grafana
5 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.70%) Puppet
6 3 (1.70%) systemd
6 3 (1.70%) yum
7 2 (1.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.36%) Google
3 11 (6.25%) Adobe
4 8 (4.55%) Okta
4 8 (4.55%) SAP
4 8 (4.55%) Workday
5 7 (3.98%) Sonatype
6 6 (3.41%) TikTok
7 5 (2.84%) Oracle
8 4 (2.27%) Pinterest
8 4 (2.27%) Snapchat
9 3 (1.70%) Citrix
9 3 (1.70%) Instagram
9 3 (1.70%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.14%) ESRI
10 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.14%) UiPath
10 2 (1.14%) YouTube
11 1 (0.57%) Zscaler