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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 400 352
Rank change year-on-year -32 -48 +59
Contract jobs citing Publishing 169 74 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.74% 0.48% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 37 73
10th Percentile £288 £350 £219
25th Percentile £400 £385 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £690 £875
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 5 50
10th Percentile £22.50 - £35.93
25th Percentile £35.25 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -18.60% +22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £78.05 £48.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -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 22,705 15,358 21,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.29% 64.19% 57.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,918 9,924 13,665
10th Percentile £313 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,555 691 1,804
10th Percentile £14.18 £13.35 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £27.50 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -9.14% -5.18%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £66.92
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.41%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -42 86 £438 -16.67% 73
North of England -41 36 £500 -13.04% 13
Yorkshire -29 26 £475 -17.39% 6
South West -16 16 £425 -51.43% 12
East of England -17 12 £425 - 3
Midlands -50 10 £500 - 5
West Midlands -51 10 £500 - 4
North West -30 6 £558 +17.80% 6
South East -54 5 £450 +28.57% 17
North East - 4 £525 - 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 12 (7.10%) CMS
2 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.78%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.59%) Drupal
5 1 (0.59%) IIS
5 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.55%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.96%) Adobe After Effects
3 5 (2.96%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (2.37%) InDesign
5 2 (1.18%) FrameMaker
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.59%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.59%) SPSS
6 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (9.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.14%) Sprinklr
2 7 (4.14%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.78%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.59%) Primavera
4 1 (0.59%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.93%) Azure
2 22 (13.02%) SaaS
3 19 (11.24%) Entra ID
4 12 (7.10%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.51%) Figma
6 10 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (4.73%) GCP
8 7 (4.14%) AWS
9 5 (2.96%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (2.96%) OCI
10 3 (1.78%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.78%) Canva
10 3 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.78%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.18%) GitHub
11 2 (1.18%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.18%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Firewall
2 3 (1.78%) DNS
2 3 (1.78%) VPN
3 2 (1.18%) DHCP
3 2 (1.18%) Internet
3 2 (1.18%) Intranet
3 2 (1.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.59%) BGP
4 1 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.59%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.59%) HTTP
4 1 (0.59%) IPsec
4 1 (0.59%) LAN
4 1 (0.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.59%) OSPF
4 1 (0.59%) SMTP
4 1 (0.59%) SNMP
4 1 (0.59%) VLAN
4 1 (0.59%) WAN
4 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.69%) Metadata
3 11 (6.51%) Geospatial Data
3 11 (6.51%) Power BI
4 6 (3.55%) GIS
4 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.96%) Tableau
6 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.37%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) MySQL
7 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.18%) Power Query
7 2 (1.18%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.96%) Maven
2 5 (2.96%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.37%) JIRA
4 3 (1.78%) GitLab
5 2 (1.18%) Git
5 2 (1.18%) git-flow
5 2 (1.18%) MSI
6 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.59%) ESLint
6 1 (0.59%) Spock
6 1 (0.59%) Storybook
6 1 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 43 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.85%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.38%) Finance
4 15 (8.88%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.88%) Marketing
5 10 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.55%) Advertising
7 6 (3.55%) Banking
7 6 (3.55%) Legal
8 5 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.96%) Law
9 4 (2.37%) Games
9 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (17.75%) Developer
2 20 (11.83%) Designer
3 17 (10.06%) Analyst
3 17 (10.06%) Senior
4 16 (9.47%) Content Designer
5 12 (7.10%) Administrator
6 11 (6.51%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) Python Developer
7 9 (5.33%) Kafka Developer
8 8 (4.73%) Junior
8 8 (4.73%) Lead
9 7 (4.14%) Junior Designer
9 7 (4.14%) Report Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Workday Analyst
10 6 (3.55%) Perl Developer
11 5 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.96%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.96%) SAP Administrator
11 5 (2.96%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.65%) Pandas
1 18 (10.65%) Polars
2 16 (9.47%) REST
2 16 (9.47%) SAP Basis
3 12 (7.10%) GeoJSON
4 9 (5.33%) Apache Avro
4 9 (5.33%) FastAPI
4 9 (5.33%) Flask
4 9 (5.33%) HTML
4 9 (5.33%) Kafka
4 9 (5.33%) Matplotlib
4 9 (5.33%) NumPy
4 9 (5.33%) scikit-learn
5 6 (3.55%) JSON
5 6 (3.55%) Node.js
6 5 (2.96%) React Native
6 5 (2.96%) SLSA
6 5 (2.96%) YAML
7 4 (2.37%) OAuth
7 4 (2.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 23 (13.61%) Management Information System
3 17 (10.06%) Taxonomies
4 9 (5.33%) Equities
4 9 (5.33%) Hedge funds
5 7 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.14%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (3.55%) Graphic Design
6 6 (3.55%) Reference Data
6 6 (3.55%) Social Media
7 4 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.37%) Digital Media
7 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.37%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.37%) NHS
8 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.14%) Android
1 7 (4.14%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.55%) Windows
3 3 (1.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.93%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (14.20%) CI/CD
4 23 (13.61%) Agile
4 23 (13.61%) Analytics
5 22 (13.02%) Data Transformation
6 21 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (12.43%) Roadmaps
6 21 (12.43%) User Experience
7 19 (11.24%) Data Modelling
8 18 (10.65%) Data Governance
8 18 (10.65%) Observability
9 17 (10.06%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (9.47%) AI
10 16 (9.47%) BPMN
10 16 (9.47%) Computer Science
10 16 (9.47%) Internal Audit
10 16 (9.47%) Project Management
10 16 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (9.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.08%) SQL
2 34 (20.12%) Python
3 13 (7.69%) Java
4 9 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.73%) C#
5 8 (4.73%) Perl
6 6 (3.55%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.96%) Groovy
7 5 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.18%) C
8 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.59%) Bash
9 1 (0.59%) Bicep
9 1 (0.59%) C++
9 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.59%) R
9 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.61%) Degree
3 21 (12.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.96%) PMP
6 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.18%) HNC
7 2 (1.18%) HND
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.65%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.28%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.51%) QA
4 7 (4.14%) WCAG
5 4 (2.37%) JSP 440
6 3 (1.78%) PMO
7 2 (1.18%) GDPR
8 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.59%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (9.47%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (8.88%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.33%) Terraform
4 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
5 1 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (10.06%) Google
1 17 (10.06%) Okta
1 17 (10.06%) SAP
2 14 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.10%) Adobe
4 8 (4.73%) Workday
5 5 (2.96%) Oracle
5 5 (2.96%) Sonatype
5 5 (2.96%) TikTok
6 4 (2.37%) Apple
6 4 (2.37%) Pinterest
6 4 (2.37%) Snapchat
7 2 (1.18%) Citrix
7 2 (1.18%) ESRI
7 2 (1.18%) Instagram
7 2 (1.18%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.59%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.59%) UiPath
8 1 (0.59%) YouTube
8 1 (0.59%) Zscaler