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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 413 357
Rank change year-on-year -22 -56 +59
Contract jobs citing Publishing 182 76 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.30% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.76% 0.47% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 37 75
10th Percentile £288 £325 £285
25th Percentile £400 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £690 £863
UK median daily rate £460 £450 £448
% change year-on-year +2.22% +0.45% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 51
10th Percentile £22.50 £32.50 £33.07
25th Percentile £25.75 £32.88 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.74 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.53% -19.21% +22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.50 -
90th Percentile - £42.75 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £34.74 £43.00
% change year-on-year +29.53% -19.21% +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 23,839 16,213 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.93% 64.32% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,480 10,436 13,677
10th Percentile £313 £281 £290
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -2.83% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,698 785 1,806
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -16.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £54.89
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.45 £31.89
% change year-on-year +16.58% -13.91% +6.28%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -20 96 £453 -9.50% 77
North of England -39 36 £500 +9.59% 1
Yorkshire -24 24 £500 -13.04%
South West -15 21 £425 -35.85% 4
West Midlands -50 11 £500 +42.86%
Midlands -57 11 £500 +42.86% 2
East of England -23 7 £425 - 4
North West -43 7 £540 +18.41% 1
South East -58 7 £450 +28.57% 17
North East -27 5 £525 +23.53%
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 13 (7.14%) CMS
2 8 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.65%) Confluence
5 2 (1.10%) Apache
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.10%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.10%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.55%) Drupal
6 1 (0.55%) IIS
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.75%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (2.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.20%) InDesign
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.10%) FrameMaker
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.55%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.55%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.55%) SPSS
6 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (6.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.85%) Workday HCM
3 6 (3.30%) Sprinklr
4 3 (1.65%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Primavera
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.03%) Azure
2 18 (9.89%) SaaS
3 16 (8.79%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.59%) AWS
5 12 (6.59%) GCP
6 11 (6.04%) Figma
7 10 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.85%) OCI
9 5 (2.75%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.20%) Datadog
10 4 (2.20%) Lucidchart
11 3 (1.65%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.65%) Canva
11 3 (1.65%) GitHub
11 3 (1.65%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.65%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.10%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) DNS
1 6 (3.30%) Firewall
1 6 (3.30%) VPN
2 5 (2.75%) SSL
3 2 (1.10%) DHCP
3 2 (1.10%) Internet
3 2 (1.10%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) BGP
4 1 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.55%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.55%) HTTP
4 1 (0.55%) IPsec
4 1 (0.55%) LAN
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) OSPF
4 1 (0.55%) SMTP
4 1 (0.55%) SNMP
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
4 1 (0.55%) WAN
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.24%) Power BI
1 15 (8.24%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.59%) Metadata
3 11 (6.04%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (3.30%) GIS
5 5 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.75%) Tableau
6 4 (2.20%) Power Query
6 4 (2.20%) Spatial Data
6 4 (2.20%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.10%) MySQL
8 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.55%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 9 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.85%) Maven
2 7 (3.85%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.20%) GitLab
3 4 (2.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.10%) Git
4 2 (1.10%) git-flow
4 2 (1.10%) MSI
5 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.55%) ESLint
5 1 (0.55%) Spock
5 1 (0.55%) Storybook
5 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 44 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (17.03%) Finance
4 17 (9.34%) Marketing
5 14 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.04%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.95%) Legal
8 8 (4.40%) Advertising
8 8 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.30%) Banking
11 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.20%) Games
12 4 (2.20%) Law
13 3 (1.65%) Local Government
14 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 30 (16.48%) Developer
2 25 (13.74%) Analyst
3 20 (10.99%) Designer
4 19 (10.44%) Senior
5 16 (8.79%) Content Designer
6 12 (6.59%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.04%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.49%) Lead
9 9 (4.95%) Administrator
9 9 (4.95%) Kafka Developer
10 8 (4.40%) Junior
11 7 (3.85%) Junior Designer
11 7 (3.85%) Report Analyst
11 7 (3.85%) Workday Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Conversion Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Junior Content Designer
12 5 (2.75%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.75%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.89%) Pandas
1 18 (9.89%) Polars
2 17 (9.34%) REST
3 12 (6.59%) GeoJSON
4 11 (6.04%) SAP Basis
5 9 (4.95%) Apache Avro
5 9 (4.95%) FastAPI
5 9 (4.95%) Flask
5 9 (4.95%) JSON
5 9 (4.95%) Kafka
5 9 (4.95%) Matplotlib
5 9 (4.95%) NumPy
5 9 (4.95%) scikit-learn
6 8 (4.40%) HTML
7 7 (3.85%) Node.js
7 7 (3.85%) SLSA
7 7 (3.85%) YAML
8 4 (2.20%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.20%) React Native
8 4 (2.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.54%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.44%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.59%) Taxonomies
4 9 (4.95%) Equities
4 9 (4.95%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.85%) Graphic Design
5 7 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.20%) Digital Media
8 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.20%) Social Media
9 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.65%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.65%) NHS
9 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.65%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.10%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.85%) Windows
2 6 (3.30%) Android
2 6 (3.30%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.30%) Linux
3 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (14.84%) Agile
1 27 (14.84%) CI/CD
1 27 (14.84%) Data Pipeline
2 26 (14.29%) Analytics
3 25 (13.74%) User Experience
4 23 (12.64%) Data Transformation
5 21 (11.54%) AI
5 21 (11.54%) Containerisation
5 21 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (10.99%) Observability
6 20 (10.99%) Roadmaps
6 20 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (10.44%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (9.89%) Data Modelling
8 18 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.89%) Project Management
9 17 (9.34%) Decision-Making
9 17 (9.34%) DevOps
10 15 (8.24%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.53%) Python
2 38 (20.88%) SQL
3 10 (5.49%) Java
4 7 (3.85%) Groovy
4 7 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.75%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.20%) Bash
6 4 (2.20%) C#
6 4 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.65%) Perl
8 2 (1.10%) C
8 2 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) C++
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.55%) R
9 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.09%) Degree
4 6 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.30%) PMP
5 4 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.10%) HNC
6 2 (1.10%) HND
6 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.34%) Accessibility
2 15 (8.24%) Data Quality
3 13 (7.14%) QA
4 7 (3.85%) WCAG
5 5 (2.75%) PMO
6 4 (2.20%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.10%) GDPR
7 2 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.55%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.79%) Terraform
3 11 (6.04%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.75%) Ansible
5 4 (2.20%) Grafana
5 4 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.65%) Puppet
6 3 (1.65%) systemd
6 3 (1.65%) yum
7 2 (1.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.99%) Google
3 12 (6.59%) Adobe
3 12 (6.59%) Okta
3 12 (6.59%) SAP
4 8 (4.40%) Workday
5 7 (3.85%) Sonatype
6 6 (3.30%) TikTok
7 4 (2.20%) Apple
7 4 (2.20%) Oracle
7 4 (2.20%) Pinterest
7 4 (2.20%) Snapchat
8 3 (1.65%) Citrix
8 3 (1.65%) Instagram
9 2 (1.10%) ESRI
9 2 (1.10%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.10%) UiPath
9 2 (1.10%) YouTube
10 1 (0.55%) CyberArk