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 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 399 364
Rank change year-on-year -10 -35 +49
Contract jobs citing Publishing 167 77 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.31% 0.47%
As % of the General category 0.76% 0.49% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 42 69
10th Percentile £293 £256 £211
25th Percentile £372 £352 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £612 £671 £890
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 41
10th Percentile £22.50 £27.08 £36.25
25th Percentile £39.86 £30.57 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.43% -18.60% +22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.88 -
90th Percentile £81.20 £49.75 -
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 22,056 15,744 21,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.32% 64.03% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,825 10,236 14,068
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,427 671 1,774
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.19 £17.44 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.15 £28.18 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% -1.98% -17.86%
75th Percentile £61.21 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £28.00 £28.42
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.48% -18.80%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -36 86 £438 -18.60% 24
North of England -36 38 £500 +40.45% 7
Yorkshire - 25 £450 -
South West -31 13 £425 -20.00% 5
East of England - 12 £425 - 3
West Midlands - 11 £450 - 4
Midlands - 11 £450 - 5
North West -35 9 £430 +20.79% 7
South East -66 6 £525 +50.00% 14
North East - 4 £525 -
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 15 (8.98%) CMS
2 9 (5.39%) Confluence
3 4 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Drupal
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.80%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.60%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.60%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.60%) InDesign
5 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.60%) SPSS
5 1 (0.60%) Trello
5 1 (0.60%) UserZoom
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 10 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (5.99%) GCP
5 7 (4.19%) Figma
5 7 (4.19%) Google Tag Manager
6 6 (3.59%) Power Platform
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%) npm
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.20%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) DHCP
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) Intranet
2 1 (0.60%) SMTP
2 1 (0.60%) VPN
2 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.98%) Metadata
2 12 (7.19%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.39%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (2.99%) Power BI
5 4 (2.40%) Tableau
6 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.20%) GIS
7 2 (1.20%) Looker
7 2 (1.20%) MySQL
7 2 (1.20%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.60%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 14 (8.38%) JIRA
2 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.99%) Maven
2 5 (2.99%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.40%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.40%) ESLint
4 2 (1.20%) git-flow
4 2 (1.20%) MSI
5 1 (0.60%) Git
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Spock
5 1 (0.60%) Storybook
5 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 43 (25.75%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.37%) Finance
4 17 (10.18%) Marketing
5 15 (8.98%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.79%) Banking
8 7 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.59%) Legal
9 6 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.99%) Advertising
10 5 (2.99%) Law
11 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.80%) Retail
12 2 (1.20%) French Language
12 2 (1.20%) German Language
13 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.60%) Local Government
13 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.60%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 28 (16.77%) Developer
2 20 (11.98%) Designer
3 19 (11.38%) Analyst
4 17 (10.18%) Content Designer
5 16 (9.58%) Senior
6 12 (7.19%) Administrator
7 11 (6.59%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.79%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Kafka Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Report Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.59%) Perl Developer
12 5 (2.99%) Conversion Analyst
12 5 (2.99%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (2.99%) Junior
12 5 (2.99%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.99%) SAP Administrator
13 4 (2.40%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.40%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.58%) Pandas
1 16 (9.58%) Polars
1 16 (9.58%) SAP Basis
2 12 (7.19%) HTML
2 12 (7.19%) REST
3 10 (5.99%) GeoJSON
4 9 (5.39%) Matplotlib
4 9 (5.39%) scikit-learn
5 8 (4.79%) React Native
6 7 (4.19%) Apache Avro
6 7 (4.19%) FastAPI
6 7 (4.19%) Flask
6 7 (4.19%) Kafka
6 7 (4.19%) NumPy
7 6 (3.59%) CSS
7 6 (3.59%) JSON
7 6 (3.59%) Node.js
8 5 (2.99%) React
8 5 (2.99%) SLSA
8 5 (2.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.57%) Onboarding
2 21 (12.57%) Management Information System
3 18 (10.78%) Taxonomies
4 7 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.19%) Equities
4 7 (4.19%) Hedge funds
4 7 (4.19%) Social Media
5 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.59%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.59%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.99%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.40%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.40%) NHS
8 3 (1.80%) Blog
8 3 (1.80%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.20%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.60%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.99%) Android
1 10 (5.99%) Apple iOS
2 8 (4.79%) Windows
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 36 (21.56%) Agile
2 29 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (17.37%) Roadmaps
3 27 (16.17%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 21 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (11.38%) Analytics
7 18 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (10.18%) BPMN
8 17 (10.18%) Data Governance
8 17 (10.18%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (9.58%) Computer Science
9 16 (9.58%) Data Transformation
9 16 (9.58%) Internal Audit
9 16 (9.58%) Project Management
10 15 (8.98%) Change Management
10 15 (8.98%) Observability
10 15 (8.98%) User Experience
10 15 (8.98%) Vulnerability Management
11 14 (8.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.36%) SQL
2 28 (16.77%) Python
3 13 (7.78%) Java
4 10 (5.99%) C#
5 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.79%) Perl
6 8 (4.79%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.99%) Groovy
8 2 (1.20%) C
8 2 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.20%) R
9 1 (0.60%) Bicep
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.77%) Degree
3 16 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.80%) PMP
6 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) HNC
6 2 (1.20%) HND
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.57%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.78%) QA
3 11 (6.59%) WCAG
4 9 (5.39%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.40%) JSP 440
6 3 (1.80%) GDPR
6 3 (1.80%) PMO
7 2 (1.20%) PERC
8 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.79%) 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 12 (7.19%) 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 17 (10.18%) Google
1 17 (10.18%) Okta
1 17 (10.18%) SAP
2 11 (6.59%) Adobe
3 10 (5.99%) 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
6 4 (2.40%) Xamarin
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%) Zscaler