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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 393 348
Rank change year-on-year -23 -45 +59
Contract jobs citing Publishing 167 76 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.75% 0.49% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 37 68
10th Percentile £288 £335 £211
25th Percentile £400 £370 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £429
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.31% -14.15%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £614
90th Percentile £600 £690 £891
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 6 49
10th Percentile £22.50 £28.63 £36.25
25th Percentile £39.86 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.43% -18.60% +22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £79.63 £46.25 -
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £35.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +61.43% -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 22,227 15,558 21,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.06% 64.07% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,740 10,063 13,655
10th Percentile £310 £290 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -1.45% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,470 682 1,778
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.79 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.01 £16.95 £15.44
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -8.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £61.18 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -24 89 £444 -15.48% 56
North of England -35 34 £500 -13.04% 12
Yorkshire -33 25 £450 -21.74% 5
South West -23 16 £425 -51.43% 13
East of England - 12 £425 - 3
West Midlands -42 11 £450 - 5
Midlands -56 11 £450 - 5
North West -38 6 £558 +17.80% 5
South East -68 4 £450 +28.57% 20
North East - 3 £525 - 3
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 11 (6.59%) CMS
2 5 (2.99%) Confluence
2 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.60%) Drupal
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.59%) Photoshop
3 4 (2.40%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (2.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.80%) InDesign
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.60%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.60%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.60%) SPSS
6 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (9.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.19%) Workday HCM
3 6 (3.59%) Sprinklr
4 3 (1.80%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.60%) Primavera
5 1 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.16%) Azure
2 22 (13.17%) SaaS
3 19 (11.38%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (5.99%) Figma
5 10 (5.99%) GCP
6 7 (4.19%) Google Tag Manager
7 5 (2.99%) AWS
7 5 (2.99%) OCI
8 3 (1.80%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.80%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.80%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.20%) Canva
9 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.20%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.20%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Firewall
1 2 (1.20%) Intranet
2 1 (0.60%) DHCP
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) SMTP
2 1 (0.60%) VPN
2 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.38%) Metadata
1 14 (8.38%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.99%) Geospatial Data
2 10 (5.99%) Power BI
3 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.99%) Tableau
4 4 (2.40%) GIS
5 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.80%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.20%) Looker
6 2 (1.20%) MySQL
6 2 (1.20%) Power Query
6 2 (1.20%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.20%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.39%) JIRA
2 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.99%) Maven
2 5 (2.99%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.20%) git-flow
3 2 (1.20%) MSI
4 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.60%) ESLint
4 1 (0.60%) Git
4 1 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) Spock
4 1 (0.60%) Storybook
4 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 43 (25.75%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.17%) Finance
4 15 (8.98%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.98%) Marketing
5 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.19%) Banking
6 7 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Advertising
7 6 (3.59%) Legal
8 5 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.99%) Law
9 4 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Games
11 2 (1.20%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.60%) Local Government
12 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (17.96%) Developer
2 20 (11.98%) Analyst
2 20 (11.98%) Designer
3 18 (10.78%) Senior
4 16 (9.58%) Content Designer
5 12 (7.19%) Administrator
6 11 (6.59%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.99%) Python Developer
8 9 (5.39%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.19%) Junior
10 7 (4.19%) Report Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.59%) Junior Designer
11 6 (3.59%) Lead
11 6 (3.59%) Perl Developer
12 5 (2.99%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (2.99%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.99%) SAP Administrator
12 5 (2.99%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) Pandas
1 18 (10.78%) Polars
2 16 (9.58%) SAP Basis
3 15 (8.98%) REST
4 11 (6.59%) GeoJSON
5 10 (5.99%) HTML
6 9 (5.39%) Apache Avro
6 9 (5.39%) FastAPI
6 9 (5.39%) Flask
6 9 (5.39%) Kafka
6 9 (5.39%) Matplotlib
6 9 (5.39%) NumPy
6 9 (5.39%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.59%) JSON
7 6 (3.59%) Node.js
8 5 (2.99%) CSS
8 5 (2.99%) React Native
8 5 (2.99%) SLSA
8 5 (2.99%) YAML
9 4 (2.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.57%) Onboarding
2 23 (13.77%) Management Information System
3 17 (10.18%) Taxonomies
4 9 (5.39%) Equities
4 9 (5.39%) Hedge funds
5 7 (4.19%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.59%) Social Media
7 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.99%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.40%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (2.40%) NHS
9 3 (1.80%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.80%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Windows
2 7 (4.19%) Android
2 7 (4.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.96%) Data Pipeline
2 28 (16.77%) Agile
3 26 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (15.57%) Roadmaps
4 22 (13.17%) CI/CD
5 21 (12.57%) Data Transformation
6 20 (11.98%) Analytics
7 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.38%) User Experience
8 17 (10.18%) Data Governance
8 17 (10.18%) Observability
8 17 (10.18%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (10.18%) Project Management
9 16 (9.58%) BPMN
9 16 (9.58%) Data Modelling
9 16 (9.58%) Internal Audit
9 16 (9.58%) Visualisation
10 15 (8.98%) AI
10 15 (8.98%) Computer Science
10 15 (8.98%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.35%) SQL
2 31 (18.56%) Python
3 13 (7.78%) Java
4 10 (5.99%) C#
5 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.79%) Perl
7 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.99%) Groovy
8 5 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.20%) C
9 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.20%) R
10 1 (0.60%) Bicep
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.17%) Degree
3 19 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.40%) PMP
6 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.20%) HNC
6 2 (1.20%) HND
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.38%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.78%) QA
3 7 (4.19%) WCAG
4 4 (2.40%) GDPR
4 4 (2.40%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.80%) PMO
6 2 (1.20%) PERC
7 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (5.99%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 16 (9.58%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.19%) Terraform
4 2 (1.20%) SCCM
5 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (11.38%) Google
2 17 (10.18%) Okta
2 17 (10.18%) SAP
3 12 (7.19%) Adobe
3 12 (7.19%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.19%) Workday
5 5 (2.99%) Oracle
5 5 (2.99%) Sonatype
6 4 (2.40%) Apple
6 4 (2.40%) Citrix
6 4 (2.40%) Pinterest
6 4 (2.40%) Snapchat
6 4 (2.40%) TikTok
7 3 (1.80%) Facebook
7 3 (1.80%) UiPath
8 2 (1.20%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.60%) Screaming Frog
9 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.60%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.60%) Zscaler