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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 312 318
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Publishing 62 65 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.40% 0.62%
As % of the General category 0.67% 0.64% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 82
10th Percentile £346 £349 £313
25th Percentile £422 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £593
90th Percentile £722 £731 £666
England median daily rate £475 £532 £500
% change year-on-year -10.63% +6.30% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile - £28.51 £38.75
25th Percentile £33.00 £31.44 £65.00
Median hourly rate £34.24 £33.07 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -54.39% +231.62%
75th Percentile £35.00 £40.74 £77.50
90th Percentile - £54.55 -
England median hourly rate £42.00 £43.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year -2.33% -37.45% +214.47%

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 9,314 10,133 14,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 69.16% 62.15% 64.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,144 6,716 10,317
10th Percentile £325 £330 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 121 177
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.00 £17.99
25th Percentile £24.64 £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +22.81% -19.72%
75th Percentile £49.75 £53.75 £54.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £29.75
% change year-on-year -34.68% +29.41% +20.01%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing 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 19 September 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
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 19 September 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 0 6 £600 +33.19% 18
East London +8 1 £400 -30.43% 1
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (9.68%) CMS
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.23%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.23%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.90%) AWS
1 8 (12.90%) GCP
2 5 (8.06%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.84%) Figma
3 3 (4.84%) GitHub
3 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (4.84%) Serverless
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.23%) Canva
4 2 (3.23%) dbt
4 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) Alation
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) Metadata
2 4 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.23%) Big Data
3 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.23%) Power BI
3 2 (3.23%) Tableau
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.61%) GIS
4 1 (1.61%) Looker
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.61%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.61%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) JIRA
2 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.06%) SonarQube
2 5 (8.06%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Pa11y
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Legal
3 7 (11.29%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Advertising
4 4 (6.45%) Law
5 3 (4.84%) Local Government
5 3 (4.84%) Marketing
6 2 (3.23%) Games
6 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.23%) Public Speaking
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (14.52%) Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Senior
3 6 (9.68%) Designer
4 5 (8.06%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Consultant
6 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) DataOps Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Lead
7 2 (3.23%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Sales and Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) .NET
1 3 (4.84%) REST
2 2 (3.23%) HTML
2 2 (3.23%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.23%) Keras
2 2 (3.23%) OAuth
2 2 (3.23%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.23%) OpenID
2 2 (3.23%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.23%) SAML
2 2 (3.23%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.23%) WPF
3 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.61%) Flash
3 1 (1.61%) gRPC
3 1 (1.61%) HTML5
3 1 (1.61%) NestJS
3 1 (1.61%) PySpark
3 1 (1.61%) React
3 1 (1.61%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.06%) PMI
3 3 (4.84%) Graphic Design
3 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Social Media
4 2 (3.23%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (3.23%) Digital Media
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.23%) Genomics
4 2 (3.23%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Omics
4 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.23%) Video Editing
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.42%) Agile
2 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.97%) DevOps
3 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
5 10 (16.13%) Analytics
6 9 (14.52%) Project Management
6 9 (14.52%) Scrum
6 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
6 9 (14.52%) User Experience
7 8 (12.90%) Mentoring
8 7 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (11.29%) Migration
8 7 (11.29%) Software Engineering
9 6 (9.68%) Coaching
9 6 (9.68%) Data Governance
9 6 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (9.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) Python
2 5 (8.06%) SQL
3 4 (6.45%) C#
4 3 (4.84%) Go
4 3 (4.84%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) R
6 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.84%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.61%) ACCA
5 1 (1.61%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) GRC
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
2 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (17.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Terraform
2 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Google
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Databricks
2 3 (4.84%) SAP
3 2 (3.23%) Adobe
3 2 (3.23%) Citrix
3 2 (3.23%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.23%) UiPath
4 1 (1.61%) Apple
4 1 (1.61%) ESRI