Publishing Contract Job Trends in London

Publishing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 321 283
Rank change year-on-year +21 -38 +54
Contract jobs citing Publishing 85 65 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.41% 0.68%
As % of the General category 0.89% 0.66% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 38 82
10th Percentile £300 £363 £308
25th Percentile £396 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +11.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £647 £720 £638
90th Percentile £715 £733 £699
England median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile - - £28.25
25th Percentile £18.25 - £31.60
Median hourly rate £25.50 £33.07 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% -39.04% +141.11%
75th Percentile £34.48 £48.41 £76.56
90th Percentile £35.00 £57.61 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% -50.00% +18.18%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,504 9,868 13,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.33% 62.83% 65.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,220 6,317 9,536
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £824 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 112 168
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.55 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.17 £26.92 £20.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £35.13
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +6.76% +12.40%
75th Percentile £45.38 £55.19 £57.81
90th Percentile £68.23 £76.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.48
% change year-on-year -21.80% +4.91% +18.53%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Publishing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Publishing job vacancy trend in London

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Publishing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Publishing

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in London

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Publishing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Publishing

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Publishing in London

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Central London +4 6 £503 -19.60% 47
East London - 1 £400 - 4
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (11.76%) CMS
2 5 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (4.71%) WordPress
4 3 (3.53%) Confluence
5 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.18%) Apache
6 1 (1.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.94%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.41%) Azure
3 6 (7.06%) GCP
4 5 (5.88%) AWS
4 5 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (4.71%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.71%) GitHub
5 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.71%) SaaS
6 3 (3.53%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.53%) Figma
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.35%) Canva
7 2 (2.35%) Serverless
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.18%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) Power BI
2 9 (10.59%) Metadata
3 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.18%) GIS
4 1 (1.18%) Looker
4 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.18%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) JIRA
2 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.88%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.35%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) gulp
4 1 (1.18%) Maven
4 1 (1.18%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.76%) Finance
4 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 8 (9.41%) Marketing
5 5 (5.88%) Advertising
5 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.71%) Billing
6 4 (4.71%) General Ledger
6 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Law
6 4 (4.71%) Retail
7 3 (3.53%) Local Government
7 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.35%) French Language
8 2 (2.35%) Games
8 2 (2.35%) German Language
8 2 (2.35%) Legal
8 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (14.12%) Lead
2 11 (12.94%) Project Leader
3 7 (8.24%) Analyst
4 6 (7.06%) Designer
5 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.88%) Developer
5 5 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.71%) Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) CMS Specialist
6 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.71%) DataOps Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Financial Controller
6 4 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Python Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Senior
8 2 (2.35%) Automation Developer
8 2 (2.35%) Content Designer
8 2 (2.35%) SDLC Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) HTML
2 5 (5.88%) REST
3 3 (3.53%) .NET
3 3 (3.53%) OAuth
3 3 (3.53%) SAML
4 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.35%) HTML5
4 2 (2.35%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.35%) OpenID
4 2 (2.35%) React
4 2 (2.35%) WPF
5 1 (1.18%) Ajax
5 1 (1.18%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.18%) CSS3
5 1 (1.18%) Express.js
5 1 (1.18%) Kafka
5 1 (1.18%) Node.js
5 1 (1.18%) OSGi
5 1 (1.18%) RESTful
5 1 (1.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (7.06%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.88%) PMI
4 5 (5.88%) Social Media
5 4 (4.71%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.71%) Genomics
5 4 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.71%) Omics
6 3 (3.53%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.53%) Graphic Design
6 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.35%) Learning Management System
7 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.35%) Video Editing
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (27.06%) Decision-Making
3 20 (23.53%) Agile
4 17 (20.00%) DevOps
5 16 (18.82%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (17.65%) Data Analysis
7 14 (16.47%) CI/CD
8 13 (15.29%) Analytics
8 13 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (14.12%) Data Governance
9 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.94%) Visualisation
11 10 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
12 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
12 9 (10.59%) User Experience
13 8 (9.41%) Data Engineering
13 8 (9.41%) Machine Learning
13 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.47%) SQL
2 9 (10.59%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) Go
3 3 (3.53%) Java
4 2 (2.35%) C#
4 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) ACCA
2 5 (5.88%) CIMA
2 5 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.82%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) WCAG
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) PMO
4 1 (1.18%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Terraform
2 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) Adobe
2 6 (7.06%) Google
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.71%) Xero
5 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.53%) SAP
6 2 (2.35%) Citrix
6 2 (2.35%) UiPath
7 1 (1.18%) Apple
7 1 (1.18%) Databricks
7 1 (1.18%) ESRI
7 1 (1.18%) Synthesia