Publishing Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 314 344
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 -20
Contract jobs citing Publishing 54 77 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the General category 0.64% 0.68% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 99
10th Percentile £408 £266 £339
25th Percentile £450 £324 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.35%
75th Percentile £600 £741 £600
90th Percentile - £925 £679
England median daily rate £513 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +20.59% -17.07% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile - £21.91 £17.37
25th Percentile £32.50 £24.90 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.14 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.13% -16.76% -19.54%
75th Percentile £46.25 £31.71 £37.50
90th Percentile £51.50 - £43.20
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.60% +22.86% +12.90%

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 8,474 11,265 17,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.53% 63.18% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,727 8,041 12,396
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 245 221
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.72 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £51.81 £43.75 £58.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £65.02 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in London

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Publishing in London.

Daily rate trend for Publishing in London

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in London

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Publishing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in London

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -6 5 £600 -33.33% 4
West London +12 1 £450 +80.00% 4
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.70%) CMS
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.85%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Sprinklr
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.70%) AWS
2 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
2 2 (3.70%) BigCommerce
2 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (3.70%) dbt
2 2 (3.70%) IBM Blueworks
2 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.70%) Serverless
2 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.85%) Figma
3 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.85%) Matillion
3 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) Tableau
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Pa11y
2 1 (1.85%) Postman
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Legal
3 8 (14.81%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Marketing
5 4 (7.41%) Law
6 3 (5.56%) Games
7 2 (3.70%) Advertising
7 2 (3.70%) French Language
7 2 (3.70%) German Language
7 2 (3.70%) Italian Language
7 2 (3.70%) Japanese Language
7 2 (3.70%) Multimedia
7 2 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.70%) Public Speaking
7 2 (3.70%) Retail
7 2 (3.70%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.85%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (12.96%) Developer
2 6 (11.11%) Architect
3 5 (9.26%) Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Lead
4 4 (7.41%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Senior
5 3 (5.56%) Coordinator
5 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Lead Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Lead Python Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Change Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Content Editor
6 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Process Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Product Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) REST
2 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) HTML
3 2 (3.70%) OAuth
4 1 (1.85%) .NET
4 1 (1.85%) CSS
4 1 (1.85%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.85%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.85%) RESTful
4 1 (1.85%) Swagger
4 1 (1.85%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.85%) Vue
4 1 (1.85%) WPF
4 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.56%) Digital Media
2 3 (5.56%) Social Media
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.70%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.85%) Life Science
4 1 (1.85%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) PMI
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Video on Demand
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) Agile
2 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
4 7 (12.96%) Analytics
4 7 (12.96%) Data Ingestion
5 6 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (11.11%) Migration
5 6 (11.11%) Project Management
6 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
6 5 (9.26%) CRM
6 5 (9.26%) Roadmaps
6 5 (9.26%) Software Engineering
6 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.41%) Code Quality
7 4 (7.41%) Decision-Making
7 4 (7.41%) Event-Driven
7 4 (7.41%) LLM
7 4 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) Python
2 5 (9.26%) C#
3 4 (7.41%) SQL
4 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.85%) DataWeave
5 1 (1.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) CISA
2 1 (1.85%) CISM
2 1 (1.85%) CRISC
2 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.85%) PMP
2 1 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) COBIT
2 1 (1.85%) GRC
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) IBM
3 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Apple
4 1 (1.85%) Citrix
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) UiPath