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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 399 362
Rank change year-on-year -33 -37 +48
Contract jobs citing Publishing 163 78 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.32% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.50% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 39 66
10th Percentile £288 £343 £211
25th Percentile £400 £385 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £609
90th Percentile £600 £683 £894
UK median daily rate £451 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -9.75% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 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 £81.20 £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 22,274 15,560 21,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.29% 64.14% 58.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,799 10,082 13,654
10th Percentile £306 £295 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £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 £505 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,469 672 1,769
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.79 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.95 £15.46
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.38 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -9.23% -7.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -10.72%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -32 89 £450 -14.29% 56
North of England -35 35 £500 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire -31 26 £450 -21.74% 4
South West -27 13 £425 -51.43% 14
East of England - 12 £425 - 2
West Midlands -52 11 £450 - 5
Midlands -58 11 £450 - 5
North West -32 6 £558 +17.80% 7
South East -71 4 £450 +28.57% 22
North East - 3 £525 - 4
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 (7.36%) CMS
2 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.45%) Confluence
4 3 (1.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.61%) Drupal
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.84%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.61%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.61%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.61%) InDesign
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) SPSS
3 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (9.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.29%) Workday HCM
3 6 (3.68%) Sprinklr
4 3 (1.84%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.61%) Primavera
5 1 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.63%) Azure
2 22 (13.50%) SaaS
3 19 (11.66%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.75%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (6.13%) GCP
6 7 (4.29%) Figma
6 7 (4.29%) Google Tag Manager
7 5 (3.07%) AWS
7 5 (3.07%) OCI
8 3 (1.84%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.84%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.84%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.23%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
1 2 (1.23%) Intranet
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) SMTP
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.20%) Metadata
2 14 (8.59%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.13%) Power BI
4 9 (5.52%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (3.07%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.07%) Tableau
6 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.84%) GIS
6 3 (1.84%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.23%) Looker
7 2 (1.23%) MySQL
7 2 (1.23%) Power Query
7 2 (1.23%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.23%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 8 (4.91%) JIRA
2 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.07%) Maven
2 5 (3.07%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.23%) git-flow
3 2 (1.23%) MSI
4 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.61%) ESLint
4 1 (0.61%) Git
4 1 (0.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.61%) Spock
4 1 (0.61%) Storybook
4 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 42 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.56%) Finance
4 15 (9.20%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (8.59%) Marketing
6 13 (7.98%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.91%) Banking
8 6 (3.68%) Legal
8 6 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.07%) Advertising
9 5 (3.07%) Law
10 4 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Retail
13 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.61%) French Language
13 1 (0.61%) German Language
13 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Local Government
13 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (18.40%) Developer
2 20 (12.27%) Analyst
3 18 (11.04%) Designer
3 18 (11.04%) Senior
4 17 (10.43%) Content Designer
5 12 (7.36%) Administrator
6 11 (6.75%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.13%) Python Developer
8 9 (5.52%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (4.91%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.29%) Report Analyst
10 7 (4.29%) Workday Analyst
11 6 (3.68%) Junior
11 6 (3.68%) Perl Developer
12 5 (3.07%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (3.07%) Junior Content Designer
12 5 (3.07%) Junior Designer
12 5 (3.07%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.07%) SAP Administrator
12 5 (3.07%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.04%) Pandas
1 18 (11.04%) Polars
2 16 (9.82%) SAP Basis
3 15 (9.20%) REST
4 11 (6.75%) GeoJSON
4 11 (6.75%) HTML
5 9 (5.52%) Apache Avro
5 9 (5.52%) FastAPI
5 9 (5.52%) Flask
5 9 (5.52%) Kafka
5 9 (5.52%) Matplotlib
5 9 (5.52%) NumPy
5 9 (5.52%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.68%) CSS
6 6 (3.68%) Node.js
7 5 (3.07%) JSON
7 5 (3.07%) React Native
7 5 (3.07%) SLSA
7 5 (3.07%) YAML
8 4 (2.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.95%) Onboarding
2 24 (14.72%) Management Information System
3 18 (11.04%) Taxonomies
4 9 (5.52%) Equities
4 9 (5.52%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.68%) Social Media
6 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.07%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.45%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.45%) NHS
8 3 (1.84%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.61%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.91%) Windows
2 7 (4.29%) Android
2 7 (4.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (18.40%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (17.79%) Agile
3 26 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (15.34%) Roadmaps
5 22 (13.50%) CI/CD
6 21 (12.88%) Analytics
6 21 (12.88%) Data Transformation
7 19 (11.66%) User Experience
8 18 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.43%) Data Governance
9 17 (10.43%) Observability
9 17 (10.43%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (9.82%) BPMN
10 16 (9.82%) Computer Science
10 16 (9.82%) Data Modelling
10 16 (9.82%) Internal Audit
10 16 (9.82%) Project Management
10 16 (9.82%) Visualisation
11 15 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (9.20%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.31%) SQL
2 31 (19.02%) Python
3 13 (7.98%) Java
4 10 (6.13%) C#
5 9 (5.52%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.91%) Perl
7 5 (3.07%) Groovy
7 5 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.23%) C
8 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.23%) R
9 1 (0.61%) Bicep
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.11%) Degree
3 19 (11.66%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.45%) PMP
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.23%) HNC
6 2 (1.23%) HND
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.66%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.98%) QA
3 7 (4.29%) WCAG
4 4 (2.45%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.84%) GDPR
5 3 (1.84%) PMO
6 2 (1.23%) PERC
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.13%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 16 (9.82%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.29%) Terraform
4 2 (1.23%) SCCM
5 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (10.43%) Google
1 17 (10.43%) Okta
1 17 (10.43%) SAP
2 12 (7.36%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.75%) Adobe
4 7 (4.29%) Workday
5 5 (3.07%) Oracle
5 5 (3.07%) Sonatype
6 4 (2.45%) Apple
6 4 (2.45%) Citrix
6 4 (2.45%) Pinterest
6 4 (2.45%) Snapchat
6 4 (2.45%) TikTok
7 3 (1.84%) Facebook
7 3 (1.84%) UiPath
8 2 (1.23%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.61%) Xamarin