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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 393 349
Rank change year-on-year -27 -44 +58
Contract jobs citing Publishing 169 73 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.75% 0.48% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 36 72
10th Percentile £288 £350 £215
25th Percentile £400 £393 £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 £694 £881
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 5 49
10th Percentile £22.50 - £36.25
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 22,594 15,235 21,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.23% 64.08% 57.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,884 9,879 13,638
10th Percentile £313 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.29% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,539 664 1,801
10th Percentile £14.21 £13.28 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £16.67 £15.46
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -9.17% -6.25%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -7.69%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -38 84 £438 -16.67% 84
North of England -38 37 £500 -13.04% 13
Yorkshire -28 26 £475 -17.39% 5
South West -14 18 £425 -51.43% 12
East of England -18 12 £425 - 3
West Midlands -52 10 £500 - 4
Midlands -62 10 £500 - 4
North West -36 7 £566 +19.65% 7
South East -60 5 £450 +28.57% 24
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 4 (2.37%) 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 7 (4.14%) 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 13 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.51%) Figma
6 10 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (5.92%) GCP
7 7 (4.14%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (3.55%) AWS
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%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.78%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.18%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.18%) Lucidchart
11 2 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) Firewall
2 2 (1.18%) DHCP
2 2 (1.18%) DNS
2 2 (1.18%) Internet
2 2 (1.18%) Intranet
2 2 (1.18%) VPN
3 1 (0.59%) BGP
3 1 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.59%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.59%) HTTP
3 1 (0.59%) IPsec
3 1 (0.59%) LAN
3 1 (0.59%) Network Security
3 1 (0.59%) OSPF
3 1 (0.59%) SMTP
3 1 (0.59%) SNMP
3 1 (0.59%) SSL
3 1 (0.59%) VLAN
3 1 (0.59%) WAN
3 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.69%) Metadata
3 12 (7.10%) Power BI
4 11 (6.51%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (4.14%) Tableau
6 6 (3.55%) GIS
6 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.37%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.18%) Looker
8 2 (1.18%) MySQL
8 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.18%) Power Query
8 2 (1.18%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.59%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.96%) Maven
1 5 (2.96%) SonarQube
2 4 (2.37%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) Git
3 2 (1.18%) git-flow
3 2 (1.18%) GitLab
3 2 (1.18%) MSI
4 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.59%) ESLint
4 1 (0.59%) Spock
4 1 (0.59%) Storybook
4 1 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 44 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (24.85%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.38%) Finance
4 15 (8.88%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.88%) Marketing
5 11 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.14%) 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 2 (1.18%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.59%) French Language
11 1 (0.59%) German Language
11 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (17.75%) Developer
2 20 (11.83%) Designer
2 20 (11.83%) Senior
3 18 (10.65%) Analyst
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
10 6 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.96%) Junior Content Designer
11 5 (2.96%) Product 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%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.55%) Social Media
7 5 (2.96%) Graphic Design
7 5 (2.96%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.37%) Digital Media
8 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.37%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (2.37%) NHS
8 4 (2.37%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.14%) Android
1 7 (4.14%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.93%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (14.79%) Agile
3 24 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (13.61%) Analytics
4 23 (13.61%) CI/CD
4 23 (13.61%) Roadmaps
5 22 (13.02%) Data Transformation
6 20 (11.83%) User Experience
7 19 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (10.65%) Data Governance
8 18 (10.65%) Data Modelling
9 17 (10.06%) Observability
9 17 (10.06%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (10.06%) Project Management
9 17 (10.06%) Visualisation
10 16 (9.47%) BPMN
10 16 (9.47%) Computer Science
10 16 (9.47%) Internal Audit
11 15 (8.88%) AI
11 15 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.67%) 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
8 2 (1.18%) R
9 1 (0.59%) Bicep
9 1 (0.59%) C++
9 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (18.34%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.02%) Degree
3 21 (12.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.96%) PMP
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.18%) HNC
6 2 (1.18%) HND
6 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.65%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.28%) Data Quality
3 13 (7.69%) QA
4 7 (4.14%) WCAG
5 4 (2.37%) GDPR
5 4 (2.37%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.18%) PERC
6 2 (1.18%) PMO
7 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%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (9.47%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.73%) Terraform
4 2 (1.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.59%) Ansible
5 1 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (11.24%) Google
2 17 (10.06%) Okta
2 17 (10.06%) SAP
3 12 (7.10%) Adobe
3 12 (7.10%) Microsoft
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 3 (1.78%) Facebook
8 2 (1.18%) Citrix
8 2 (1.18%) ESRI
8 2 (1.18%) Instagram
8 2 (1.18%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.59%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.59%) UiPath
9 1 (0.59%) YouTube