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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 302 326
Rank change year-on-year -35 +24 -8
Contract jobs citing Publishing 105 62 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.47% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.84% 0.68% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 32 36
10th Percentile £301 £346 £375
25th Percentile £418 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £530 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -5.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £698
90th Percentile £668 £722 £731
England median daily rate £482 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +1.53% -10.88% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - £28.51
25th Percentile - £33.00 £31.44
Median hourly rate £44.87 £34.24 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +31.05% +3.54% -54.39%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £40.74
90th Percentile - - £54.55
England median hourly rate £26.50 £42.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -36.90% -2.33% -40.69%

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 12,437 9,168 9,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.49% 69.06% 62.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,947 6,031 6,613
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 181 118
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.85
25th Percentile £21.11 £24.61 £25.06
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.90
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -12.26% +28.21%
75th Percentile £44.97 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £65.00 £65.32
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +33.97%

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 22 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 22 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 -19 7 £529 -11.79% 21
South London - 1 £450 -
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 28 (26.67%) CMS
2 9 (8.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.71%) Headless CMS
4 4 (3.81%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (2.86%) Confluence
5 3 (2.86%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.90%) Apache
6 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.90%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.90%) Drupal
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.95%) nginx
7 1 (0.95%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.90%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.90%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.95%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.95%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.95%) InDesign
3 1 (0.95%) SPSS
3 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Shopify
2 2 (1.90%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.38%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.52%) Adobe Analytics
2 10 (9.52%) AWS
3 9 (8.57%) Azure
4 6 (5.71%) GitHub
5 5 (4.76%) Bloomreach
5 5 (4.76%) Google Analytics
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.81%) Datadog
6 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.81%) Siteimprove
7 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.86%) Miro
8 2 (1.90%) Alation
8 2 (1.90%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.90%) Collibra
8 2 (1.90%) Figma
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) DNS
1 5 (4.76%) SSL
2 4 (3.81%) Firewall
2 4 (3.81%) VPN
3 2 (1.90%) Intranet
4 1 (0.95%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.95%) NFC
4 1 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.38%) Power BI
2 10 (9.52%) Metadata
2 10 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.76%) Power Query
3 5 (4.76%) Star Schema
4 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.86%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.90%) GIS
6 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.90%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.90%) Tableau
7 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.95%) Flink
7 1 (0.95%) QGIS
7 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.95%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 3 (2.86%) Git
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.90%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.95%) Gradle
5 1 (0.95%) JUnit
5 1 (0.95%) Maven
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.95%) Storybook
General
1 33 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.86%) Finance
3 15 (14.29%) Marketing
4 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.62%) Advertising
7 6 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.76%) Legal
9 3 (2.86%) Banking
9 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.86%) Multimedia
9 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Front Office
10 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.90%) Local Government
10 2 (1.90%) Retail
11 1 (0.95%) Games
11 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.95%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Developer
2 16 (15.24%) Senior
3 14 (13.33%) Analyst
4 8 (7.62%) Web Specialist
5 7 (6.67%) Kafka Developer
5 7 (6.67%) Marketing Specialist
5 7 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 7 (6.67%) Web Marketing Specialist
6 6 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.71%) Designer
6 6 (5.71%) Technical Specialist
7 5 (4.76%) Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Content Designer
7 5 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.81%) Lead
8 4 (3.81%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (3.81%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.81%) Technical Manager
8 4 (3.81%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) HTML
2 14 (13.33%) CSS
2 14 (13.33%) REST
3 8 (7.62%) Kafka
4 7 (6.67%) Apache Avro
4 7 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 7 (6.67%) Flask
4 7 (6.67%) NumPy
4 7 (6.67%) Pandas
4 7 (6.67%) Polars
5 5 (4.76%) Terraform
6 2 (1.90%) .NET
6 2 (1.90%) GeoJSON
6 2 (1.90%) JSON
6 2 (1.90%) Node.js
6 2 (1.90%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.90%) PySpark
6 2 (1.90%) Spring
6 2 (1.90%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.67%) Equities
2 7 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.71%) Graphic Design
3 6 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.76%) Replication
4 5 (4.76%) Taxonomies
5 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.86%) Digital Media
6 3 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.90%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (1.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.76%) Linux
1 5 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.95%) Android
3 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Analytics
2 23 (21.90%) AI
3 22 (20.95%) Agile
4 19 (18.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (17.14%) User Experience
6 17 (16.19%) Content Management
6 17 (16.19%) Migration
7 14 (13.33%) Data Transformation
8 13 (12.38%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (12.38%) CI/CD
8 13 (12.38%) Containerisation
8 13 (12.38%) Decision-Making
8 13 (12.38%) Observability
9 12 (11.43%) UX Design
10 11 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (10.48%) SDLC
10 11 (10.48%) User Research
11 10 (9.52%) Roadmaps
11 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.05%) SQL
2 19 (18.10%) Python
3 12 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.76%) Bash
4 5 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.81%) C#
6 3 (2.86%) Java
7 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.90%) R
7 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.95%) Scala
8 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) Degree
3 9 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) CBAP
7 1 (0.95%) CCSAS
7 1 (0.95%) PhD
7 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.71%) QA
4 5 (4.76%) PMO
4 5 (4.76%) WCAG
5 4 (3.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.95%) GDPR
6 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.71%) Grafana
3 5 (4.76%) Ansible
3 5 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.81%) systemd
5 3 (2.86%) Puppet
5 3 (2.86%) yum
6 1 (0.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Adobe
2 11 (10.48%) Google
3 5 (4.76%) Apple
4 4 (3.81%) Amplitude
4 4 (3.81%) Optimizely
4 4 (3.81%) Sitecore
4 4 (3.81%) Tealium
5 3 (2.86%) Oracle
6 2 (1.90%) Citrix
6 2 (1.90%) Databricks
6 2 (1.90%) ESRI
6 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.90%) UiPath
7 1 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.95%) Canon
7 1 (0.95%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.95%) Glassbox
7 1 (0.95%) Informatica
7 1 (0.95%) Sonatype