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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 354 418
Rank change year-on-year -36 +64 -15
Contract jobs citing Publishing 77 184 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.50% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.50% 0.87% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 65 159
10th Percentile £343 £211 £325
25th Percentile £385 £315 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £600
90th Percentile £683 £895 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 49 9
10th Percentile £28.63 £36.25 £17.56
25th Percentile £32.50 - £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +22.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile £46.25 - £41.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.60% +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 15,527 21,243 28,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.14% 58.25% 59.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,061 13,688 20,281
10th Percentile £296 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 1,780 937
10th Percentile £13.84 £13.00 £13.62
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -6.15% +51.16%
75th Percentile £55.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.33 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £34.00
% change year-on-year -8.82% -11.29% +53.22%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +29 58 £525 - 260
South East +43 7 £350 -15.15% 74
North of England +12 5 £575 +4.55% 47
North West +4 4 £473 -13.95% 35
South West +34 2 £875 +105.88% 12
Yorkshire +16 1 £575 - 6
Midlands +10 1 - - 15
East Midlands +7 1 - - 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 9 (11.69%) CMS
2 4 (5.19%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.60%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.30%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.30%) Mule
4 1 (1.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.58%) Azure
2 4 (5.19%) AWS
2 4 (5.19%) Figma
2 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (2.60%) dbt
3 2 (2.60%) GCP
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.60%) Serverless
3 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.30%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.30%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (1.30%) Miro
4 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) DNS
1 2 (2.60%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (5.19%) Power BI
3 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.90%) Metadata
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.60%) Big Data
4 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.60%) Tableau
5 1 (1.30%) GIS
5 1 (1.30%) Power Query
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) Pa11y
2 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Legal
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Finance
5 6 (7.79%) Marketing
6 5 (6.49%) Law
7 3 (3.90%) Advertising
7 3 (3.90%) Games
7 3 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.60%) Digital Health
8 2 (2.60%) French Language
8 2 (2.60%) German Language
8 2 (2.60%) Italian Language
8 2 (2.60%) Japanese Language
8 2 (2.60%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.60%) Public Speaking
8 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 2 (2.60%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (11.69%) Architect
1 9 (11.69%) Developer
2 7 (9.09%) Lead
2 7 (9.09%) Senior
3 5 (6.49%) Analyst
3 5 (6.49%) Content Editor
3 5 (6.49%) Project Manager
4 4 (5.19%) Designer
5 3 (3.90%) Coordinator
5 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (3.90%) Lead Developer
5 3 (3.90%) Lead Python Developer
5 3 (3.90%) Product Manager
5 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
5 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.90%) Web Content Editor
5 3 (3.90%) Web Editor
6 2 (2.60%) Sales and Marketing Manager
6 2 (2.60%) Video Editor
6 2 (2.60%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) HTML
2 5 (6.49%) REST
3 3 (3.90%) Node.js
4 2 (2.60%) CSS
4 2 (2.60%) Hugging Face
4 2 (2.60%) Keras
4 2 (2.60%) OAuth
4 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.60%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) Babylonjs
5 1 (1.30%) JSON
5 1 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.30%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.30%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.30%) Swagger
5 1 (1.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.30%) Vue
5 1 (1.30%) Web Services
5 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.90%) Digital Media
3 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.90%) Social Media
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Life Science
4 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.60%) PMI
4 2 (2.60%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.30%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.30%) Mixed Reality
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Android
2 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
2 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) Agile
2 12 (15.58%) Analytics
2 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (12.99%) Project Management
5 9 (11.69%) Migration
6 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
6 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (10.39%) User Experience
7 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 7 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
7 7 (9.09%) LLM
8 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (6.49%) CI/CD
9 5 (6.49%) Content Management
9 5 (6.49%) Copywriting
9 5 (6.49%) CRM
9 5 (6.49%) Decision-Making
10 4 (5.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.69%) Python
2 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.49%) C#
3 5 (6.49%) SQL
4 3 (3.90%) R
4 3 (3.90%) VB
5 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.60%) VBScript
6 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.30%) DataWeave
6 1 (1.30%) Java
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.30%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) PMI Certification
2 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.60%) MCP
3 2 (2.60%) MCSA
3 2 (2.60%) MCSE
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.60%) PMP
4 1 (1.30%) CISA
4 1 (1.30%) CISM
4 1 (1.30%) CRISC
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) NCSC
2 2 (2.60%) PMO
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) COBIT
3 1 (1.30%) GRC
3 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.60%) BitLocker
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.90%) Google
2 3 (3.90%) Virgin Media
3 2 (2.60%) Databricks
3 2 (2.60%) McAfee
3 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle
3 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.60%) Symantec
3 2 (2.60%) VMware
4 1 (1.30%) Apple
4 1 (1.30%) Citrix
4 1 (1.30%) ESRI
4 1 (1.30%) IBM
4 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) SAP
4 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.30%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.30%) UiPath