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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 324 300
Rank change year-on-year +40 -24 +41
Contract jobs citing Publishing 94 64 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.40% 0.64%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.63% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 34 76
10th Percentile £300 £338 £294
25th Percentile £415 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +8.64% -7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £720 £643
90th Percentile £687 £731 £700
England median daily rate £475 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 8
10th Percentile - - £28.25
25th Percentile £18.25 - £31.60
Median hourly rate £18.50 £33.07 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -44.06% -39.04% +35.63%
75th Percentile £34.48 £48.41 £76.56
90th Percentile £34.58 £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 9,643 10,089 12,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.88% 63.41% 64.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,297 6,466 9,210
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £777 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 118 167
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.43 £18.43
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.75 £37.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% +7.96% +4.48%
75th Percentile £46.50 £54.69 £58.13
90th Percentile £70.20 £78.51 £75.50
England median hourly rate £24.21 £31.31 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.69% -4.40% +28.33%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -3 6 £619 -1.00% 5
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 11 (11.70%) CMS
2 6 (6.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (6.38%) Confluence
3 4 (4.26%) WordPress
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.13%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.06%) Apache
5 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 16 (17.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.06%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.06%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) Power Platform
2 8 (8.51%) Azure
3 6 (6.38%) GCP
4 5 (5.32%) AWS
4 5 (5.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.26%) GitHub
5 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.26%) SaaS
6 3 (3.19%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.19%) Figma
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.13%) Canva
7 2 (2.13%) Serverless
8 1 (1.06%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.06%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) Power BI
2 9 (9.57%) Metadata
3 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.06%) GIS
4 1 (1.06%) Looker
4 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.06%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (14.89%) JIRA
2 5 (5.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.32%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.13%) Git
4 1 (1.06%) gulp
4 1 (1.06%) Maven
4 1 (1.06%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.47%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.77%) Finance
4 9 (9.57%) Marketing
5 8 (8.51%) Banking
6 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.26%) Advertising
7 4 (4.26%) Billing
7 4 (4.26%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Law
7 4 (4.26%) Retail
8 3 (3.19%) Local Government
9 2 (2.13%) French Language
9 2 (2.13%) Games
9 2 (2.13%) German Language
9 2 (2.13%) Legal
9 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (12.77%) Lead
2 11 (11.70%) Project Leader
3 9 (9.57%) Analyst
3 9 (9.57%) Designer
4 7 (7.45%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.45%) Developer
4 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.32%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Applications Developer
6 4 (4.26%) Architect
6 4 (4.26%) Automation Developer
6 4 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) CMS Specialist
6 4 (4.26%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.26%) DataOps Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Financial Controller
6 4 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 3 (3.19%) Content Designer
7 3 (3.19%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) HTML
2 5 (5.32%) .NET
2 5 (5.32%) REST
3 4 (4.26%) CSS
3 4 (4.26%) WPF
4 3 (3.19%) OAuth
4 3 (3.19%) SAML
5 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.13%) HTML5
5 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.13%) OpenID
5 2 (2.13%) React
6 1 (1.06%) Ajax
6 1 (1.06%) Flash
6 1 (1.06%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.06%) gRPC
6 1 (1.06%) Node.js
6 1 (1.06%) OSGi
6 1 (1.06%) Servlets
6 1 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (7.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.32%) PMI
4 5 (5.32%) Social Media
5 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.26%) Genomics
5 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.26%) Omics
6 3 (3.19%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (3.19%) Graphic Design
6 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.13%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (2.13%) Learning Management System
7 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.13%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (26.60%) Agile
2 25 (26.60%) Decision-Making
3 19 (20.21%) DevOps
4 16 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (17.02%) Data Analysis
5 14 (14.89%) Analytics
5 14 (14.89%) CI/CD
5 14 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (12.77%) Data Governance
8 11 (11.70%) Collaborative Culture
8 11 (11.70%) Visualisation
9 10 (10.64%) Data Cleansing
10 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
10 9 (9.57%) Migration
10 9 (9.57%) Project Management
10 9 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (9.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.02%) SQL
2 9 (9.57%) Python
3 4 (4.26%) C#
3 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.19%) Go
4 3 (3.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (10.64%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) ACCA
2 5 (5.32%) CIMA
2 5 (5.32%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) WCAG
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) PMO
4 1 (1.06%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Terraform
2 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.57%) Adobe
2 7 (7.45%) Google
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.26%) Citrix
4 4 (4.26%) UiPath
4 4 (4.26%) Xero
5 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) Apple
6 1 (1.06%) Botify
6 1 (1.06%) Databricks
6 1 (1.06%) ESRI
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.06%) Synthesia