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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 318 328
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Publishing 50 81 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.46% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.74% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 51 96
10th Percentile £289 £310 £313
25th Percentile £393 £390 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £647 £590
90th Percentile £615 £925 £656
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £32.50 £22.57 £19.50
25th Percentile £32.75 £26.56 £24.69
Median hourly rate £34.48 £31.71 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% -9.40% -32.04%
75th Percentile £37.50 £33.07 £44.75
90th Percentile £44.50 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.81% +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 8,732 10,911 16,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.06% 62.43% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,820 7,763 11,687
10th Percentile £331 £336 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £725
90th Percentile £813 £825 £825
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 234 194
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £24.66 £18.39 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -7.20% -9.72%
75th Percentile £51.18 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.50 £67.40 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.90% +8.99% +30.28%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -2 4 £490 -45.56% 37
East London +12 1 £400 -31.57% 18
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 6 (12.00%) CMS
2 2 (4.00%) Headless CMS
2 2 (4.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) AWS
2 5 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.00%) Serverless
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.00%) dbt
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.00%) Canva
6 1 (2.00%) Figma
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Metadata
2 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.00%) Big Data
3 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 2 (4.00%) Tableau
4 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Legal
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Law
5 4 (8.00%) Games
5 4 (8.00%) Marketing
6 3 (6.00%) Advertising
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) French Language
7 2 (4.00%) German Language
7 2 (4.00%) Italian Language
7 2 (4.00%) Japanese Language
7 2 (4.00%) Local Government
7 2 (4.00%) Public Speaking
7 2 (4.00%) Spanish Language
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (8.00%) Designer
2 4 (8.00%) Developer
2 4 (8.00%) Senior
3 3 (6.00%) Applications Developer
3 3 (6.00%) Automation Developer
3 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Consultant
4 2 (4.00%) Content Designer
4 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 2 (4.00%) Sales and Marketing Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (4.00%) Tableau Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Tableau Specialist
4 2 (4.00%) Video Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) .NET
1 3 (6.00%) WPF
2 2 (4.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (4.00%) Keras
2 2 (4.00%) OAuth
2 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (4.00%) OpenID
2 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.00%) REST
2 2 (4.00%) SAML
2 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.00%) Flash
3 1 (2.00%) HTML
3 1 (2.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.00%) Digital Media
3 3 (6.00%) PMI
3 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.00%) Graphic Design
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.00%) Social Media
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.00%) Mixed Reality
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Video Editing
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.00%) Agile
3 9 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (14.00%) Analytics
5 7 (14.00%) LLM
5 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (14.00%) User Experience
6 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.00%) DevOps
6 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.00%) Scrum
7 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Migration
8 4 (8.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) C#
3 4 (8.00%) Python
4 3 (6.00%) Go
4 3 (6.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (6.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) ACCA
4 1 (2.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) GRC
2 1 (2.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Citrix
2 3 (6.00%) Databricks
2 3 (6.00%) UiPath
3 2 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) SAP