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 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 297 278
Rank change year-on-year +14 -19 +73
Contract jobs citing Publishing 91 67 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the General category 0.96% 0.72% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 38 72
10th Percentile £318 £394 £258
25th Percentile £415 £458 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +9.63% -7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £650
90th Percentile £693 £731 £745
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile - - £31.48
25th Percentile £18.25 £61.25 £34.47
Median hourly rate £18.50 £62.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.40% +7.76% +220.53%
75th Percentile £35.98 £63.75 £77.19
90th Percentile £42.65 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% -55.17% +93.33%

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,431 9,261 11,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.91% 64.73% 64.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,144 5,894 8,389
10th Percentile £350 £325 £344
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £823 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 113 167
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.30 £17.13
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £20.63
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +7.69% +7.44%
75th Percentile £45.38 £53.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.72 £76.75
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.42% -7.69% +26.41%

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 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 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
Central London -5 10 £594 -1.04% 10
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 8 (8.79%) CMS
2 6 (6.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (5.49%) Confluence
4 4 (4.40%) WordPress
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.10%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 10 (10.99%) Azure
3 7 (7.69%) GCP
4 5 (5.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (4.40%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.40%) SaaS
6 3 (3.30%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.30%) Figma
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.20%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.10%) Alation
8 1 (1.10%) dbt
8 1 (1.10%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.10%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.10%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) Power BI
2 8 (8.79%) Metadata
3 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.20%) Looker
3 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.20%) Tableau
4 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) GIS
4 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) JIRA
2 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.49%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.20%) git-flow
4 1 (1.10%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) gulp
4 1 (1.10%) Maven
4 1 (1.10%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 25 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Finance
4 11 (12.09%) Banking
4 11 (12.09%) Marketing
5 5 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
6 4 (4.40%) Advertising
6 4 (4.40%) Billing
6 4 (4.40%) General Ledger
6 4 (4.40%) Law
6 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.20%) French Language
8 2 (2.20%) German Language
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Games
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Local Government
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (12.09%) Lead
2 10 (10.99%) Project Leader
2 10 (10.99%) Senior
3 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Analyst
5 6 (6.59%) Architect
5 6 (6.59%) Designer
5 6 (6.59%) Developer
6 5 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) CMS Specialist
7 4 (4.40%) Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.40%) DataOps Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Financial Controller
8 3 (3.30%) Applications Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) HTML
2 5 (5.49%) REST
3 4 (4.40%) .NET
3 4 (4.40%) CSS
3 4 (4.40%) OAuth
4 3 (3.30%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.30%) React Native
4 3 (3.30%) WPF
5 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.20%) HTML5
6 1 (1.10%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.10%) Ajax
6 1 (1.10%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.10%) CSS3
6 1 (1.10%) Middleware
6 1 (1.10%) OSGi
6 1 (1.10%) React
6 1 (1.10%) SAML
6 1 (1.10%) Servlets
6 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (6.59%) Social Media
6 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
6 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
7 4 (4.40%) Genomics
7 4 (4.40%) Omics
8 3 (3.30%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (3.30%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.20%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (2.20%) PMI
10 1 (1.10%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (1.10%) Graphic Design
10 1 (1.10%) NHS
10 1 (1.10%) Replication
10 1 (1.10%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Android
2 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (27.47%) Decision-Making
3 21 (23.08%) Agile
4 17 (18.68%) DevOps
5 16 (17.58%) Data Analysis
6 15 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (16.48%) CI/CD
6 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.19%) Analytics
7 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (13.19%) Visualisation
8 11 (12.09%) Collaborative Culture
8 11 (12.09%) Data Governance
9 10 (10.99%) Data Cleansing
10 9 (9.89%) Change Management
10 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (9.89%) Migration
10 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (8.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 8 (8.79%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.58%) SQL
2 9 (9.89%) Python
3 3 (3.30%) C#
3 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) Degree
2 4 (4.40%) ACCA
2 4 (4.40%) CIMA
2 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.58%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) PERC
4 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Terraform
2 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Google
2 10 (10.99%) Adobe
3 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.40%) Apple
4 4 (4.40%) Xero
5 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.30%) Citrix
5 3 (3.30%) UiPath
6 2 (2.20%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) Botify
7 1 (1.10%) ESRI
7 1 (1.10%) Facebook
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle
7 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (1.10%) Synthesia