Publishing Contracts in England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Publishing over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Publishing UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	302	248	264
Rank change year-on-year	-54	+16
Contract jobs citing Publishing	316	477	423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.73%	0.96%	0.84%
As % of the General category	1.86%	2.65%	2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted	244	357	296
Median daily rate	£425	£425	£425
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£256	£250	£256
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£555	£560
UK excluding London median daily rate	£395	£400	£396
% change year-on-year	-1.25%	+0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	15	8
Median hourly rate	£15.00	£21.00	£27.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-28.57%	-24.32%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.00	£15.50	£33.00
% change year-on-year	-3.22%	-53.03%

Publishing is in the common skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

General Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills	16974	18019	19637
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	39.26%	36.44%	39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted	11203	12251	12926
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£288	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£650	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	379	443	488
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£22.50	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.10	£47.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+20.00%	+11.11%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Publishing as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the General category.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Publishing in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Publishing in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-78	180	£425	-	57
South East	+11	81	£450	+5.88%	28
West Midlands	+33	24	£375	+7.14%	2
Yorkshire	+16	10	£350	-36.93%	4
East of England	-5	8	£350	-12.22%	6
North East	+78	5	£305	-34.40%	1
South West	-5	3	£500	+48.14%	3
East Midlands	-	3	£363	-
North West	+11	1	-	-	2
Publishing UK

Publishing
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Publishing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Publishing.

1	270 (39.02%)	Agile Software Development
2	117 (16.91%)	HTML
3	97 (14.02%)	User Experience
4	96 (13.87%)	JavaScript
5	90 (13.01%)	Scrum
6	85 (12.28%)	Finance
7	84 (12.14%)	Java
8	80 (11.56%)	CSS
9	73 (10.55%)	SQL
10	71 (10.26%)	Legal
11	69 (9.97%)	Content Management
12	65 (9.39%)	TDD
13	62 (8.96%)	CMS
13	62 (8.96%)	Project Management
14	60 (8.67%)	Analytics

15	58 (8.38%)	SEO
16	56 (8.09%)	Marketing
16	56 (8.09%)	Degree
17	55 (7.95%)	Analytical Skills
18	54 (7.80%)	XML
19	52 (7.51%)	Social Media
20	51 (7.37%)	Stakeholder Management
21	50 (7.23%)	Business Intelligence
21	50 (7.23%)	Amazon AWS
22	47 (6.79%)	QA
23	46 (6.65%)	Web Application Development
23	46 (6.65%)	Microsoft
23	46 (6.65%)	Oracle
24	45 (6.50%)	Linux
25	44 (6.36%)	Web Services

Publishing
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	62 (8.96%)	CMS
2	28 (4.05%)	SharePoint
3	18 (2.60%)	WordPress
4	15 (2.17%)	Confluence
5	14 (2.02%)	SAS
6	11 (1.59%)	Drupal
7	10 (1.45%)	SharePoint 2013
8	6 (0.87%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	6 (0.87%)	Apache
8	6 (0.87%)	Apache Spark
8	6 (0.87%)	JBoss
8	6 (0.87%)	SharePoint 2010
8	6 (0.87%)	WebSphere
9	5 (0.72%)	IBM HTTP Server
9	5 (0.72%)	SharePoint Server
9	5 (0.72%)	Tomcat
10	4 (0.58%)	Apache Solr
10	4 (0.58%)	IIS
10	4 (0.58%)	Skype for Business
11	3 (0.43%)	nginx

Applications
1	41 (5.92%)	Microsoft Office
2	27 (3.90%)	Microsoft Excel
3	26 (3.76%)	Photoshop
4	18 (2.60%)	MS Visio
5	10 (1.45%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	9 (1.30%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	9 (1.30%)	Spreadsheet
7	5 (0.72%)	OmniGraffle
8	4 (0.58%)	InDesign
9	3 (0.43%)	Acrobat
9	3 (0.43%)	Adobe Creative Suite
10	2 (0.29%)	Adobe After Effects
10	2 (0.29%)	Adobe Captivate
10	2 (0.29%)	Adobe Premiere
10	2 (0.29%)	InfoPath
10	2 (0.29%)	RoboHelp
10	2 (0.29%)	S-PLUS
11	1 (0.14%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	10 (1.45%)	Eloqua
2	8 (1.16%)	FastStats
2	8 (1.16%)	Magento
3	7 (1.01%)	Oracle 11i
4	4 (0.58%)	Dynamics CRM
4	4 (0.58%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	3 (0.43%)	SAP CRM
5	3 (0.43%)	WebTrends
6	2 (0.29%)	Oracle Applications
6	2 (0.29%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	2 (0.29%)	SAP Hybris
6	2 (0.29%)	Siebel CRM
6	2 (0.29%)	Sprinklr
7	1 (0.14%)	BondVision
7	1 (0.14%)	Dynamics AX
7	1 (0.14%)	Eikon
7	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Receivables
7	1 (0.14%)	Oracle TCA
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP FI/CO
7	1 (0.14%)	Shopify

Cloud Services
1	50 (7.23%)	Amazon AWS
2	18 (2.60%)	Microsoft Azure
3	16 (2.31%)	Office 365
4	10 (1.45%)	Google Analytics
5	6 (0.87%)	IaaS
6	5 (0.72%)	PaaS
7	4 (0.58%)	SaaS
8	3 (0.43%)	Adobe Analytics
8	3 (0.43%)	Amazon EC2
8	3 (0.43%)	GitHub
8	3 (0.43%)	Slack
9	2 (0.29%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	2 (0.29%)	Force.com
9	2 (0.29%)	G Suite
9	2 (0.29%)	Google Play
9	2 (0.29%)	Heroku
9	2 (0.29%)	MailChimp
9	2 (0.29%)	Mimecast
9	2 (0.29%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
9	2 (0.29%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	16 (2.31%)	Internet
2	13 (1.88%)	LTE
3	9 (1.30%)	GSM
3	9 (1.30%)	HSPA
3	9 (1.30%)	WCDMA
4	8 (1.16%)	Intranet
5	7 (1.01%)	HTTP
5	7 (1.01%)	LAN
5	7 (1.01%)	SAN
6	5 (0.72%)	DNS
6	5 (0.72%)	VPN
7	4 (0.58%)	Extranet
7	4 (0.58%)	Network Security
7	4 (0.58%)	WAN
8	3 (0.43%)	DHCP
8	3 (0.43%)	Firewall
8	3 (0.43%)	Intrusion Detection
8	3 (0.43%)	Skype
8	3 (0.43%)	TCP/IP
9	2 (0.29%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	44 (6.36%)	SQL Server
2	31 (4.48%)	MySQL
2	31 (4.48%)	Relational Database
3	22 (3.18%)	Data Warehouse
3	22 (3.18%)	Oracle Database
4	20 (2.89%)	NoSQL
5	14 (2.02%)	Big Data
5	14 (2.02%)	MarkLogic
6	13 (1.88%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	9 (1.30%)	Oracle Database 10g
7	9 (1.30%)	Oracle Reports
8	8 (1.16%)	QlikView
8	8 (1.16%)	SQL Server 2012
9	7 (1.01%)	Crystal Reports
9	7 (1.01%)	SQL Server 2005
9	7 (1.01%)	SQL Server 2008
9	7 (1.01%)	SQL Server 2014
10	6 (0.87%)	GIS
10	6 (0.87%)	MongoDB
10	6 (0.87%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	34 (4.91%)	JIRA
2	28 (4.05%)	Git (software)
3	23 (3.32%)	Team Foundation Server
4	19 (2.75%)	Jenkins
4	19 (2.75%)	Selenium
5	17 (2.46%)	Android Studio
6	16 (2.31%)	Xcode
7	15 (2.17%)	JUnit
8	13 (1.88%)	Cucumber
9	12 (1.73%)	Subversion
9	12 (1.73%)	Visual Studio
10	10 (1.45%)	Dreamweaver
11	9 (1.30%)	Mockito
11	9 (1.30%)	Talend Open Studio
12	8 (1.16%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13	7 (1.01%)	Maven
13	7 (1.01%)	Mocha
14	6 (0.87%)	Grunt
14	6 (0.87%)	gulp
14	6 (0.87%)	Jasmine

General
1	85 (12.28%)	Finance
2	71 (10.26%)	Legal
3	56 (8.09%)	Marketing
4	18 (2.60%)	Banking
5	16 (2.31%)	Telecoms
6	15 (2.17%)	Retail
7	12 (1.73%)	Advertising
8	10 (1.45%)	Law
8	10 (1.45%)	Manufacturing
9	8 (1.16%)	Games
9	8 (1.16%)	Multimedia
9	8 (1.16%)	Pharmaceutical
10	5 (0.72%)	Back Office
10	5 (0.72%)	Electronics
11	4 (0.58%)	German Language
11	4 (0.58%)	Italian Language
11	4 (0.58%)	Spanish Language
12	3 (0.43%)	Brand Awareness
12	3 (0.43%)	Japanese Language
12	3 (0.43%)	Korean Language

Job Titles
1	184 (26.59%)	Developer
2	115 (16.62%)	Analyst
3	102 (14.74%)	Designer
4	88 (12.72%)	Content Designer
5	52 (7.51%)	Project Manager
6	50 (7.23%)	Business Analyst
7	43 (6.21%)	Architect
8	37 (5.35%)	Java Developer
9	24 (3.47%)	Digital Designer
10	23 (3.32%)	Senior Developer
11	22 (3.18%)	Digital Content Designer
12	17 (2.46%)	Administrator
12	17 (2.46%)	JavaScript Developer
12	17 (2.46%)	Scrum Master
13	16 (2.31%)	Full Stack Developer
14	15 (2.17%)	HTML Developer
15	14 (2.02%)	.NET Developer
15	14 (2.02%)	Node.js Developer
15	14 (2.02%)	Web Developer
16	13 (1.88%)	DevOps Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	117 (16.91%)	HTML
2	80 (11.56%)	CSS
3	54 (7.80%)	XML
4	44 (6.36%)	Web Services
5	37 (5.35%)	HTML5
6	30 (4.34%)	.NET
6	30 (4.34%)	Node.js
7	29 (4.19%)	Spring
8	28 (4.05%)	REST
9	24 (3.47%)	JSON
10	23 (3.32%)	XSLT
11	22 (3.18%)	CSS3
11	22 (3.18%)	RESTful
11	22 (3.18%)	Sass
12	21 (3.03%)	jQuery
12	21 (3.03%)	React
13	20 (2.89%)	Hibernate
14	19 (2.75%)	SOAP
15	17 (2.46%)	AngularJS
16	16 (2.31%)	Java EE

Miscellaneous
1	97 (14.02%)	User Experience
2	55 (7.95%)	Analytical Skills
3	52 (7.51%)	Social Media
4	25 (3.61%)	Management Information System
5	23 (3.32%)	Computer Science
6	22 (3.18%)	Mobile App
7	16 (2.31%)	Data Centre
8	9 (1.30%)	e-Learning
8	9 (1.30%)	W3C
9	8 (1.16%)	Data Protection Act
9	8 (1.16%)	Linked Data
10	7 (1.01%)	Blog
10	7 (1.01%)	Data Structures
10	7 (1.01%)	Reference Data
11	6 (0.87%)	Animation
11	6 (0.87%)	New Media
11	6 (0.87%)	PMI
11	6 (0.87%)	Semantic Web
12	5 (0.72%)	Graphic Design
12	5 (0.72%)	SCORM

Operating Systems
1	45 (6.50%)	Linux
2	39 (5.64%)	Windows
3	28 (4.05%)	Android
4	18 (2.60%)	Unix
5	11 (1.59%)	Apple iOS
6	9 (1.30%)	Windows Server
7	6 (0.87%)	Windows Server 2008
8	4 (0.58%)	Windows Server 2012
8	4 (0.58%)	Windows Vista
9	3 (0.43%)	CoreOS
10	2 (0.29%)	Mac OS X
10	2 (0.29%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	2 (0.29%)	Ubuntu
10	2 (0.29%)	Windows XP
11	1 (0.14%)	HPUX
11	1 (0.14%)	Windows 10
11	1 (0.14%)	Windows 7
11	1 (0.14%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	270 (39.02%)	Agile Software Development
2	90 (13.01%)	Scrum
3	69 (9.97%)	Content Management
4	65 (9.39%)	TDD
5	62 (8.96%)	Project Management
6	60 (8.67%)	Analytics
7	58 (8.38%)	SEO
8	51 (7.37%)	Stakeholder Management
9	50 (7.23%)	Business Intelligence
10	46 (6.65%)	Web Application Development
11	44 (6.36%)	Migration
12	43 (6.21%)	DevOps
13	42 (6.07%)	E-Commerce
14	41 (5.92%)	Kanban
15	38 (5.49%)	Web Development
16	37 (5.35%)	Test Automation
17	36 (5.20%)	Waterfall
18	33 (4.77%)	User Stories
19	32 (4.62%)	BDD
19	32 (4.62%)	Unit Testing

Programming Languages
1	96 (13.87%)	JavaScript
2	84 (12.14%)	Java
3	73 (10.55%)	SQL
4	28 (4.05%)	PHP
5	26 (3.76%)	Python
6	24 (3.47%)	C#
7	16 (2.31%)	PL/SQL
8	14 (2.02%)	R
8	14 (2.02%)	Ruby
9	13 (1.88%)	Objective-C
9	13 (1.88%)	T-SQL
10	12 (1.73%)	C
11	11 (1.59%)	ES6
12	9 (1.30%)	Apple Swift
12	9 (1.30%)	Scala
12	9 (1.30%)	VB
13	8 (1.16%)	Apex Code
13	8 (1.16%)	C++
14	7 (1.01%)	PowerShell
15	6 (0.87%)	TypeScript

Qualifications
1	56 (8.09%)	Degree
2	20 (2.89%)	Security Cleared
3	10 (1.45%)	ISTQB
3	10 (1.45%)	SC Cleared
4	9 (1.30%)	Computer Science Degree
4	9 (1.30%)	PRINCE2 Certification
5	8 (1.16%)	Master's Degree
5	8 (1.16%)	Numerate Degree
5	8 (1.16%)	PMI Certification
6	7 (1.01%)	CBAP
7	6 (0.87%)	ITIL Certification
7	6 (0.87%)	PMP
8	5 (0.72%)	IIBA
8	5 (0.72%)	ISEB
9	4 (0.58%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
10	3 (0.43%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
11	2 (0.29%)	BPSS Clearance
11	2 (0.29%)	DV Cleared
11	2 (0.29%)	GISP
11	2 (0.29%)	MySQL Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	47 (6.79%)	QA
2	13 (1.88%)	PMO
3	10 (1.45%)	Data Quality
4	6 (0.87%)	SLA
5	4 (0.58%)	WCAG
6	2 (0.29%)	CDISC
6	2 (0.29%)	ISO 9001
7	1 (0.14%)	Cyber Essentials
7	1 (0.14%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.14%)	GDPR
7	1 (0.14%)	ISO/IEC 27001

System Software
1	15 (2.17%)	Docker
2	14 (2.02%)	Active Directory
3	4 (0.58%)	XenApp
4	3 (0.43%)	Hyper-V
4	3 (0.43%)	vSphere
5	2 (0.29%)	Virtual Desktop
6	1 (0.14%)	Microsoft App-V
6	1 (0.14%)	Varnish
6	1 (0.14%)	vCloud
6	1 (0.14%)	Virtual Machines
6	1 (0.14%)	VMware Infrastructure

Systems Management
1	16 (2.31%)	Terraform
2	13 (1.88%)	Puppet
3	10 (1.45%)	Kubernetes
4	7 (1.01%)	HP Quality Center
4	7 (1.01%)	Opscode Chef
4	7 (1.01%)	SCCM
5	5 (0.72%)	Ansible
6	4 (0.58%)	Consul
6	4 (0.58%)	SCOM
7	3 (0.43%)	Nagios
7	3 (0.43%)	Packer
8	2 (0.29%)	Galera Cluster
8	2 (0.29%)	Graphite
8	2 (0.29%)	Mesos
8	2 (0.29%)	MOM
8	2 (0.29%)	NetBackup
9	1 (0.14%)	CFEngine
9	1 (0.14%)	HP SiteScope
9	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
9	1 (0.14%)	TeamSite

Vendors
1	46 (6.65%)	Microsoft
1	46 (6.65%)	Oracle
2	43 (6.21%)	Adobe
3	18 (2.60%)	Google
4	16 (2.31%)	Apple
5	15 (2.17%)	HP
5	15 (2.17%)	Salesforce.com
5	15 (2.17%)	SAP
6	13 (1.88%)	Tableau
7	9 (1.30%)	Talend
8	8 (1.16%)	Apteco
8	8 (1.16%)	VMware
9	7 (1.01%)	Splunk
10	6 (0.87%)	ESRI
11	5 (0.72%)	Cisco
11	5 (0.72%)	Citrix
11	5 (0.72%)	IBM
11	5 (0.72%)	Reuters
11	5 (0.72%)	ServiceNow
12	4 (0.58%)	Palo Alto