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 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 295 299
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +55
Contract jobs citing Publishing 96 58 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.91% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 26 57
10th Percentile £278 £323 £256
25th Percentile £344 £456 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 £430
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +25.00% -21.82%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £662 £638 £910
England median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £18.25 - £21.91
25th Percentile £24.75 £32.50 £24.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £29.14
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +20.13% -16.76%
75th Percentile £39.20 £46.25 £31.71
90th Percentile £42.65 £51.50 -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £35.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +61.43% -18.60% +22.86%

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 10,594 8,519 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.27% 67.27% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,897 5,757 8,023
10th Percentile £348 £331 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £661 £703 £700
90th Percentile £783 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 138 251
10th Percentile £18.23 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.49 £23.90 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +15.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.81 £48.13
90th Percentile £72.55 £65.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £28.55 £29.00 £27.59
% change year-on-year -1.55% +5.10% -21.16%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -2 19 £538 -10.42% 6
East London - 1 £432 - 2
South London - 1 £450 - 2
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 15 (15.63%) CMS
2 7 (7.29%) Confluence
3 5 (5.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.13%) WordPress
5 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.04%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.04%) Drupal
6 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.13%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.04%) Trello
3 1 (1.04%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Sprinklr
2 4 (4.17%) Workday HCM
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.63%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (7.29%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.25%) SaaS
5 4 (4.17%) GCP
6 3 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.08%) Figma
7 2 (2.08%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.04%) dbt
8 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.04%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.04%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.04%) Miro
8 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Firewall
1 1 (1.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) Relational Database
2 9 (9.38%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (6.25%) Power BI
4 3 (3.13%) Tableau
5 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.08%) Metadata
5 2 (2.08%) MySQL
5 2 (2.08%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.04%) Looker
6 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.04%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) JIRA
2 2 (2.08%) git-flow
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) Spock
3 1 (1.04%) Storybook
General
1 22 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
1 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.83%) Finance
2 20 (20.83%) Marketing
3 7 (7.29%) Advertising
3 7 (7.29%) Banking
3 7 (7.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.21%) Retail
5 4 (4.17%) Law
6 3 (3.13%) French Language
6 3 (3.13%) German Language
6 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Billing
7 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Local Government
8 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (14.58%) Developer
2 11 (11.46%) Senior
3 9 (9.38%) Analyst
3 9 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Designer
5 6 (6.25%) Content Designer
6 5 (5.21%) Kafka Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Lead
6 5 (5.21%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.21%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.17%) Architect
7 4 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Products Support Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Project Leader
7 4 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Report Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Support Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Workday Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) Pandas
1 14 (14.58%) Polars
2 10 (10.42%) REST
3 9 (9.38%) GeoJSON
3 9 (9.38%) HTML
3 9 (9.38%) Matplotlib
3 9 (9.38%) scikit-learn
4 5 (5.21%) Apache Avro
4 5 (5.21%) CSS
4 5 (5.21%) FastAPI
4 5 (5.21%) Flask
4 5 (5.21%) Kafka
4 5 (5.21%) NumPy
5 4 (4.17%) OAuth
5 4 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 4 (4.17%) React Native
5 4 (4.17%) Spring
5 4 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.13%) .NET
6 3 (3.13%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.33%) Social Media
3 7 (7.29%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (5.21%) Equities
5 5 (5.21%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.17%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (4.17%) NHS
7 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.13%) Digital Media
8 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (1.04%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.04%) New Media
9 1 (1.04%) Social Network
9 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Android
1 6 (6.25%) Apple iOS
1 6 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (15.63%) Agile
2 15 (15.63%) Analytics
3 14 (14.58%) Decision-Making
4 13 (13.54%) Data Transformation
4 13 (13.54%) Observability
5 12 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 12 (12.50%) Content Management
5 12 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (11.46%) Data Cleansing
6 11 (11.46%) Visualisation
7 10 (10.42%) AI
7 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (9.38%) Anomaly Detection
8 9 (9.38%) Containerisation
8 9 (9.38%) Roadmaps
9 8 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (8.33%) Storytelling
9 8 (8.33%) User Experience
9 8 (8.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.13%) SQL
2 20 (20.83%) Python
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) C#
4 3 (3.13%) Java
4 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.08%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.08%) ACCA
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.08%) CIMA
4 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) Accessibility
2 12 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 9 (9.38%) QA
4 3 (3.13%) PMO
5 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (2.08%) WCAG
6 1 (1.04%) PERC
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (10.42%) Adobe
1 10 (10.42%) Google
2 4 (4.17%) Apple
2 4 (4.17%) Pinterest
2 4 (4.17%) Snapchat
2 4 (4.17%) TikTok
2 4 (4.17%) Workday
3 3 (3.13%) Citrix
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle
3 3 (3.13%) UiPath
4 2 (2.08%) Facebook
4 2 (2.08%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.08%) Xero
5 1 (1.04%) Botify
5 1 (1.04%) Instagram
5 1 (1.04%) Okta
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.04%) Zscaler