Publishing Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 359 429
Rank change year-on-year -56 +70 -17
Contract jobs citing Publishing 77 190 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the General category 0.45% 0.89% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 76 146
10th Percentile £314 £300 £282
25th Percentile £350 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.76% +0.85% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £683 £856 £671
UK median daily rate £425 £449 £500
% change year-on-year -5.35% -10.20% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 51 8
10th Percentile £30.05 £33.07 £20.20
25th Percentile £32.50 - £31.56
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% +22.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £37.50 - £38.25
90th Percentile £41.00 - £53.10
UK median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.81% +22.86% +12.90%

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 16,941 21,343 28,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.88% 57.27% 59.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,875 13,628 19,915
10th Percentile £281 £300 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 846 1,766 965
10th Percentile £13.36 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.43 £15.92 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.17 £33.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +10.00% +28.26%
75th Percentile £51.16 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.17 £31.97 £30.54
% change year-on-year -15.02% +4.68% +27.12%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Publishing in England.

Daily rate trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Publishing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +16 51 £475 -9.95% 557
North of England -13 8 £456 -8.75% 69
South East +34 7 £350 -15.15% 91
Midlands +8 6 £350 +8.53% 45
North West -15 6 £456 -8.75% 44
East Midlands +5 3 £450 +133.77% 11
West Midlands +5 3 £350 -19.26% 34
South West +34 2 £663 - 30
East of England -36 2 £140 -76.67% 50
Yorkshire +4 1 £575 - 22
North East - 1 £425 - 3
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 13 (16.88%) CMS
2 5 (6.49%) Umbraco
3 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.90%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (2.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.30%) Apache
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.30%) Confluence
6 1 (1.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) MicroStation
2 2 (2.60%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.60%) Revit
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.30%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) AWS
2 6 (7.79%) Azure
2 6 (7.79%) SaaS
3 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
3 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (5.19%) Serverless
4 3 (3.90%) GitHub
4 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.90%) Google Analytics
4 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.60%) Contentsquare
5 2 (2.60%) dbt
5 2 (2.60%) GCP
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Metadata
2 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.90%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (3.90%) Power BI
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.60%) Big Data
3 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.60%) Tableau
4 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.30%) GIS
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Power Query
4 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (1.30%) Git
General
1 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Finance
4 11 (14.29%) Legal
5 8 (10.39%) Marketing
6 5 (6.49%) Games
6 5 (6.49%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.49%) Law
7 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Advertising
8 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Banking
9 2 (2.60%) French Language
9 2 (2.60%) German Language
9 2 (2.60%) Italian Language
9 2 (2.60%) Japanese Language
9 2 (2.60%) Local Government
9 2 (2.60%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.60%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (12.99%) Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Designer
3 6 (7.79%) Developer
4 5 (6.49%) Content Editor
4 5 (6.49%) Senior
5 4 (5.19%) Content Designer
6 3 (3.90%) Applications Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Automation Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Business Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Coordinator
6 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Lead
6 3 (3.90%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Service Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Service Transition Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Transition Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Web Content Editor
6 3 (3.90%) Web Editor
7 2 (2.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) HTML
2 3 (3.90%) .NET
2 3 (3.90%) WPF
3 2 (2.60%) CSS
3 2 (2.60%) Flash
3 2 (2.60%) Hugging Face
3 2 (2.60%) Keras
3 2 (2.60%) OAuth
3 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.60%) OpenID
3 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.60%) REST
3 2 (2.60%) SAML
3 2 (2.60%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.30%) gRPC
4 1 (1.30%) NestJS
4 1 (1.30%) Node.js
4 1 (1.30%) PySpark
4 1 (1.30%) React
4 1 (1.30%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.19%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.90%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.90%) PMI
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.90%) Social Media
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.60%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.30%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.30%) Mixed Reality
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Agile
2 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (18.18%) Analytics
4 11 (14.29%) DevOps
5 10 (12.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (11.69%) Project Management
6 9 (11.69%) Test Automation
6 9 (11.69%) User Experience
7 7 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 7 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 7 (9.09%) Content Management
7 7 (9.09%) LLM
7 7 (9.09%) Scrum
7 7 (9.09%) Service Design
8 6 (7.79%) Containerisation
8 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (7.79%) Roadmaps
8 6 (7.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.39%) SQL
2 5 (6.49%) C#
2 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
2 5 (6.49%) Python
3 3 (3.90%) Go
3 3 (3.90%) Java
3 3 (3.90%) R
4 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.30%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 19 (24.68%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (5.19%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.60%) HNC
5 2 (2.60%) HND
6 1 (1.30%) ACCA
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) CIMA
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) PMP
6 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.90%) QA
3 2 (2.60%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.30%) GRC
4 1 (1.30%) PMO
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) Google
2 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.19%) Adobe
4 3 (3.90%) Citrix
4 3 (3.90%) Databricks
4 3 (3.90%) UiPath
4 3 (3.90%) Virgin Media
5 2 (2.60%) Autodesk
5 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.30%) Avaya
6 1 (1.30%) ESRI
6 1 (1.30%) Facebook
6 1 (1.30%) Genesys
6 1 (1.30%) Instagram
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.30%) Twitter
6 1 (1.30%) YouTube