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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 311 330
Rank change year-on-year -30 +19 -30
Contract jobs citing Publishing 111 63 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.89% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 30 40
10th Percentile £291 £341 £320
25th Percentile £405 £416 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £555
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -4.50% +11.00%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £678
90th Percentile £668 £730 £731
England median daily rate £475 £463 £530
% change year-on-year +2.70% -12.74% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £36.21 £32.75 £28.51
25th Percentile £37.66 £33.00 £31.44
Median hourly rate £40.19 £34.48 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% +4.26% -54.39%
75th Percentile £42.59 £36.88 £40.74
90th Percentile £43.96 £46.25 £54.55
England median hourly rate £30.25 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -28.82% -1.16% -37.45%

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 12,455 9,324 10,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.30% 69.05% 62.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,925 6,144 6,763
10th Percentile £350 £325 £332
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 186 125
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.75 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% -6.59% +9.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.36 £65.00 £65.61
England median hourly rate £31.31 £25.15 £38.68
% change year-on-year +24.48% -34.97% +40.64%

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 10 September 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
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 10 September 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 -16 7 £550 -8.33% 13
East London +2 1 £432 +8.00% 2
South London - 1 £450 - 1
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 27 (24.32%) CMS
2 9 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 8 (7.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.60%) Headless CMS
4 4 (3.60%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (2.70%) Confluence
5 3 (2.70%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.80%) Apache
6 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.80%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.80%) Drupal
7 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.90%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.90%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.90%) nginx
7 1 (0.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
1 3 (2.70%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.80%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.90%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.90%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.90%) InDesign
3 1 (0.90%) SPSS
3 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Shopify
2 3 (2.70%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.90%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.90%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.90%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.71%) Power Platform
2 12 (10.81%) Azure
3 9 (8.11%) AWS
4 8 (7.21%) Adobe Analytics
5 6 (5.41%) GitHub
6 5 (4.50%) Google Analytics
6 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.60%) Datadog
7 4 (3.60%) GCP
7 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.60%) Siteimprove
8 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.70%) Bloomreach
8 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.70%) Miro
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.80%) Figma
9 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) DNS
1 5 (4.50%) SSL
2 4 (3.60%) Firewall
2 4 (3.60%) VPN
3 2 (1.80%) Intranet
4 1 (0.90%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.90%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.90%) NFC
4 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) Relational Database
2 13 (11.71%) Power BI
3 10 (9.01%) Metadata
4 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.50%) Power Query
4 5 (4.50%) Star Schema
5 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.60%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.70%) Spatial Data
6 3 (2.70%) Tableau
7 2 (1.80%) GIS
7 2 (1.80%) MySQL
7 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.80%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.90%) Flink
8 1 (0.90%) QGIS
8 1 (0.90%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) JIRA
2 4 (3.60%) Git
2 4 (3.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 3 (2.70%) GitLab
3 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.90%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.90%) Gradle
4 1 (0.90%) JUnit
4 1 (0.90%) Maven
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.90%) Spock
4 1 (0.90%) Storybook
General
1 31 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.32%) Finance
3 17 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.41%) Marketing
5 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.41%) Advertising
6 6 (5.41%) Legal
7 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.70%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.80%) Front Office
9 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Local Government
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.90%) Games
10 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Developer
2 16 (14.41%) Senior
3 14 (12.61%) Analyst
4 9 (8.11%) Kafka Developer
4 9 (8.11%) Python Developer
5 6 (5.41%) Designer
5 6 (5.41%) Web Specialist
6 5 (4.50%) Architect
6 5 (4.50%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.50%) Content Designer
6 5 (4.50%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Marketing Specialist
6 5 (4.50%) Web Marketing Specialist
7 4 (3.60%) Data Scientist
7 4 (3.60%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.60%) Lead
7 4 (3.60%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (3.60%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (3.60%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 4 (3.60%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.22%) REST
2 14 (12.61%) HTML
3 13 (11.71%) CSS
4 12 (10.81%) Pandas
4 12 (10.81%) Polars
5 10 (9.01%) Kafka
6 9 (8.11%) Apache Avro
6 9 (8.11%) FastAPI
6 9 (8.11%) Flask
6 9 (8.11%) NumPy
7 5 (4.50%) GeoJSON
7 5 (4.50%) Terraform
8 4 (3.60%) Spring
8 4 (3.60%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.70%) Matplotlib
9 3 (2.70%) Node.js
9 3 (2.70%) scikit-learn
9 3 (2.70%) Smart Contracts
10 2 (1.80%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.11%) Equities
2 9 (8.11%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.41%) Graphic Design
3 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.60%) Digital Media
5 4 (3.60%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Replication
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.80%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.80%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (1.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Linux
1 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Android
3 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.63%) Analytics
2 25 (22.52%) AI
3 18 (16.22%) Data Transformation
3 18 (16.22%) User Experience
4 17 (15.32%) Agile
4 17 (15.32%) Containerisation
5 16 (14.41%) Content Management
5 16 (14.41%) Migration
5 16 (14.41%) Observability
6 15 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 15 (13.51%) Decision-Making
7 14 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (11.71%) SDLC
9 12 (10.81%) Data Modelling
9 12 (10.81%) UX Design
10 11 (9.91%) Roadmaps
10 11 (9.91%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) SQL
2 24 (21.62%) Python
3 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.50%) Bash
4 5 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.60%) C#
5 4 (3.60%) Java
6 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.80%) R
6 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.90%) Scala
7 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) Degree
2 10 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) CBAP
6 1 (0.90%) CCSAS
6 1 (0.90%) PhD
6 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.90%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.12%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.31%) QA
4 5 (4.50%) PMO
4 5 (4.50%) WCAG
5 4 (3.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.80%) GDPR
7 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Grafana
3 5 (4.50%) Ansible
3 5 (4.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.60%) systemd
5 3 (2.70%) Puppet
5 3 (2.70%) yum
6 1 (0.90%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Google
3 11 (9.91%) Adobe
4 5 (4.50%) Optimizely
5 4 (3.60%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.60%) Sitecore
5 4 (3.60%) Tealium
6 3 (2.70%) Apple
6 3 (2.70%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) Citrix
7 2 (1.80%) Databricks
7 2 (1.80%) ESRI
7 2 (1.80%) UiPath
8 1 (0.90%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.90%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.90%) Glassbox
8 1 (0.90%) Pinterest
8 1 (0.90%) Snapchat
8 1 (0.90%) TikTok
8 1 (0.90%) Workday