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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 430 366
Rank change year-on-year -8 -64 +43
Contract jobs citing Publishing 176 81 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.30% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.71% 0.47% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 43 73
10th Percentile £288 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £463 £509
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -9.05% +1.70%
75th Percentile £569 £595 £600
90th Percentile £600 £765 £823
UK median daily rate £460 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.22% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 48
10th Percentile £22.50 £30.05 £31.57
25th Percentile £23.25 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £40.19 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% -19.81% +22.86%
75th Percentile £65.94 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £41.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.19 £34.48 £43.00
% change year-on-year +16.55% -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 24,783 17,367 20,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.24% 63.62% 57.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,882 11,099 13,036
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £756 £775
UK median daily rate £524 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.80% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,811 903 1,498
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.04 £35.86
Median % change year-on-year +30.53% -27.37% +19.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.14 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £25.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.65% -27.14% +14.60%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -25 97 £453 -11.27% 61
North of England -51 32 £500 +9.59% 9
Yorkshire -29 21 £500 -13.04% 2
South West -18 20 £425 -35.85% 5
West Midlands -48 10 £450 +28.57% 1
Midlands -50 10 £450 +28.57% 2
South East -58 10 £455 +30.00% 14
North East -31 6 £413 -2.94%
North West -48 5 £579 +26.85% 7
East of England -23 1 £500 +51.52% 5
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 (10.80%) CMS
2 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.70%) Confluence
4 3 (1.70%) WordPress
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%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Photoshop
2 4 (2.27%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.27%) InDesign
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.57%) SPSS
5 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 2 (1.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.57%) Primavera
5 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.34%) Azure
2 20 (11.36%) AWS
3 16 (9.09%) GCP
3 16 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 15 (8.52%) SaaS
5 11 (6.25%) Figma
6 10 (5.68%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.11%) OCI
8 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.98%) GitHub
10 5 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.84%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.27%) Datadog
11 4 (2.27%) Lucidchart
11 4 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.70%) Apigee
12 3 (1.70%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.70%) OneDrive
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%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.57%) Broadband
4 1 (0.57%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.57%) HTTP
4 1 (0.57%) IPsec
4 1 (0.57%) LAN
4 1 (0.57%) OSPF
4 1 (0.57%) SMTP
4 1 (0.57%) SNMP
4 1 (0.57%) VLAN
4 1 (0.57%) WAN
4 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) Metadata
1 15 (8.52%) Power BI
1 15 (8.52%) Relational Database
2 11 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.84%) GIS
3 5 (2.84%) Power Query
3 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.27%) Spatial Data
4 4 (2.27%) Star Schema
4 4 (2.27%) Tableau
5 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.14%) MySQL
6 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.57%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (7.95%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.11%) Maven
2 9 (5.11%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.27%) GitLab
3 4 (2.27%) JIRA
4 3 (1.70%) Git
5 2 (1.14%) MSI
5 2 (1.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
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%) webpack
General
1 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.75%) Finance
4 18 (10.23%) Marketing
5 15 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.11%) Legal
7 8 (4.55%) Advertising
7 8 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Games
9 4 (2.27%) Local Government
9 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.70%) Banking
11 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.14%) Law
11 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (17.61%) Developer
2 26 (14.77%) Analyst
3 19 (10.80%) Senior
4 18 (10.23%) Designer
5 14 (7.95%) Content Designer
6 12 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Lead
8 9 (5.11%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (4.55%) Junior
10 7 (3.98%) Administrator
10 7 (3.98%) Junior Designer
10 7 (3.98%) Report Analyst
10 7 (3.98%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.41%) Python Engineer
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.93%) REST
2 18 (10.23%) Pandas
2 18 (10.23%) Polars
3 12 (6.82%) GeoJSON
3 12 (6.82%) HTML
3 12 (6.82%) JSON
4 11 (6.25%) Node.js
5 9 (5.11%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.11%) CSS
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
5 9 (5.11%) SLSA
5 9 (5.11%) YAML
6 7 (3.98%) SAP Basis
7 4 (2.27%) SOAP
7 4 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.66%) Management Information System
1 17 (9.66%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.11%) Equities
2 9 (5.11%) Hedge funds
3 8 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.55%) Taxonomies
4 7 (3.98%) Graphic Design
4 7 (3.98%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.84%) Social Media
7 4 (2.27%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.14%) Reference Data
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 33 (18.75%) Agile
2 32 (18.18%) Analytics
3 29 (16.48%) User Experience
4 28 (15.91%) CI/CD
5 26 (14.77%) AI
6 23 (13.07%) Containerisation
6 23 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (13.07%) Data Transformation
7 21 (11.93%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (10.80%) Data Modelling
9 19 (10.80%) DevOps
9 19 (10.80%) Roadmaps
10 18 (10.23%) UX Design
11 17 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (9.66%) Observability
11 17 (9.66%) Project Management
12 16 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 43 (24.43%) Python
2 37 (21.02%) SQL
3 12 (6.82%) Java
3 12 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.11%) Groovy
5 4 (2.27%) Bash
5 4 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.70%) C#
6 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.14%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.14%) PHP
7 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.57%) Bicep
8 1 (0.57%) C++
8 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.36%) Degree
4 7 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.41%) PMP
6 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
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 17 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 14 (7.95%) QA
4 7 (3.98%) WCAG
5 6 (3.41%) PMO
6 4 (2.27%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.14%) GDPR
7 2 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (9.09%) 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 25 (14.20%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.36%) 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 22 (12.50%) Google
2 21 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.82%) Adobe
4 9 (5.11%) Sonatype
5 8 (4.55%) Okta
5 8 (4.55%) SAP
5 8 (4.55%) Workday
6 6 (3.41%) TikTok
7 5 (2.84%) Oracle
8 4 (2.27%) Optimizely
8 4 (2.27%) Pinterest
8 4 (2.27%) Snapchat
9 3 (1.70%) Citrix
9 3 (1.70%) Instagram
9 3 (1.70%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.14%) ESRI
10 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.14%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.14%) UiPath
10 2 (1.14%) YouTube