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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 357 412
Rank change year-on-year -59 +55 -5
Contract jobs citing Publishing 103 170 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.89% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 62 119
10th Percentile £325 £323 £237
25th Percentile £374 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £532 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +6.30% -5.66%
75th Percentile £599 £608 £588
90th Percentile £694 £731 £675
UK median daily rate £469 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -7.04% +0.85% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 44 8
10th Percentile £29.85 £31.80 £38.58
25th Percentile £34.48 - £46.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -37.45% +214.47%
75th Percentile £43.00 - £76.56
90th Percentile £43.75 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £43.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year -3.49% -37.45% +231.60%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,915 19,197 25,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.41% 58.26% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,348 11,698 17,331
10th Percentile £275 £300 £310
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 975 996
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.44 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +29.41% +20.01%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.30 £58.63
90th Percentile £71.28 £71.40 £71.26
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% +28.58% +12.43%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +1 62 £530 -5.36% 97
East of England -44 16 £330 -45.00% 2
North of England -47 9 £456 -8.75% 18
Midlands -8 7 £350 -36.36% 12
South East +18 6 £350 -6.67% 51
North West -27 6 £456 -8.75% 15
East Midlands - 4 £450 - 4
West Midlands -5 3 £350 -36.36% 8
Yorkshire -19 2 £575 +21.05% 3
South West - 2 £663 - 7
North East - 1 £425 - 1
Publishing
UK

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 14 (13.59%) CMS
2 6 (5.83%) Umbraco
3 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.88%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.94%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.94%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.97%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.97%) Apache
6 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.97%) Confluence
6 1 (0.97%) Documentum
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (10.68%) FrameMaker
2 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.94%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.94%) MicroStation
3 2 (1.94%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.94%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.94%) Revit
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.97%) InDesign
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.71%) AWS
1 10 (9.71%) GCP
2 7 (6.80%) Azure
2 7 (6.80%) SaaS
3 5 (4.85%) Google Analytics
3 5 (4.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (3.88%) dbt
5 3 (2.91%) Alation
5 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.91%) Contentsquare
5 3 (2.91%) Figma
5 3 (2.91%) Fivetran
5 3 (2.91%) GitHub
5 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.91%) Serverless
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.94%) Canva
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.59%) Metadata
2 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.88%) Tableau
4 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.91%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.94%) Big Data
5 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.94%) GIS
5 2 (1.94%) Looker
5 2 (1.94%) Power BI
5 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.97%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.97%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) JIRA
2 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.85%) SonarQube
2 5 (4.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.97%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) Pa11y
General
1 29 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.53%) Finance
3 15 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.68%) Legal
5 9 (8.74%) Marketing
6 8 (7.77%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (6.80%) Aerospace
7 7 (6.80%) Banking
8 6 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.85%) Automotive
9 5 (4.85%) Law
9 5 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.88%) Advertising
11 3 (2.91%) Games
11 3 (2.91%) Local Government
12 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.94%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (11.65%) Author
1 12 (11.65%) Technical Author
2 11 (10.68%) Analyst
3 9 (8.74%) Designer
4 8 (7.77%) Senior
5 6 (5.83%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.85%) Architect
6 5 (4.85%) Developer
6 5 (4.85%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Consultant
7 4 (3.88%) Content Designer
7 4 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Python Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Service Manager
7 4 (3.88%) Service Transition Manager
7 4 (3.88%) Transition Manager
8 3 (2.91%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.91%) Web Content Editor
8 3 (2.91%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) XML
2 12 (11.65%) SGML
3 7 (6.80%) HTML
4 3 (2.91%) .NET
4 3 (2.91%) REST
5 2 (1.94%) Flash
5 2 (1.94%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.94%) Keras
5 2 (1.94%) OAuth
5 2 (1.94%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.94%) OpenID
5 2 (1.94%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.94%) SAML
5 2 (1.94%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.94%) WPF
6 1 (0.97%) Cocoa
6 1 (0.97%) CSS
6 1 (0.97%) EDI
6 1 (0.97%) NestJS
6 1 (0.97%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.77%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.85%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.85%) PMI
3 5 (4.85%) Social Media
4 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Blog
5 3 (2.91%) Graphic Design
5 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.94%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.94%) Genomics
6 2 (1.94%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.94%) Omics
6 2 (1.94%) Podcast
6 2 (1.94%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.24%) Agile
2 19 (18.45%) Analytics
2 19 (18.45%) DevOps
2 19 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (18.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (14.56%) Project Management
4 14 (13.59%) Desktop Publishing
5 13 (12.62%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (12.62%) CI/CD
5 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (9.71%) Migration
6 10 (9.71%) Scrum
6 10 (9.71%) User Experience
7 9 (8.74%) Content Management
7 9 (8.74%) Mentoring
7 9 (8.74%) Test Automation
8 8 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (7.77%) Data Modelling
9 7 (6.80%) Change Management
9 7 (6.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.74%) Python
2 8 (7.77%) SQL
3 4 (3.88%) C#
4 3 (2.91%) Go
4 3 (2.91%) Java
4 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.94%) R
6 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (26.21%) Degree
2 14 (13.59%) HNC
2 14 (13.59%) HND
3 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (5.83%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.97%) ACCA
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.97%) CIMA
7 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.94%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.94%) PMO
2 2 (1.94%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) WCAG
3 1 (0.97%) GRC
3 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (10.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.74%) Terraform
2 6 (5.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.65%) Google
3 6 (5.83%) Adobe
4 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.91%) Databricks
5 3 (2.91%) SAP
5 3 (2.91%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.94%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.94%) Citrix
6 2 (1.94%) ESRI
6 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.94%) Twitter
6 2 (1.94%) UiPath
6 2 (1.94%) YouTube
7 1 (0.97%) Apple
7 1 (0.97%) Avaya
7 1 (0.97%) Genesys
7 1 (0.97%) Instagram
7 1 (0.97%) OpenText
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle