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 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 289 271
Rank change year-on-year -1 -18 +81
Contract jobs citing Publishing 87 67 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.48% 0.67%
As % of the General category 0.93% 0.74% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 36 75
10th Percentile £310 £391 £264
25th Percentile £414 £457 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £645
90th Percentile £675 £731 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile - - £31.48
25th Percentile £18.25 £61.25 £34.47
Median hourly rate £18.50 £62.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.40% +7.76% +216.98%
75th Percentile £35.98 £63.75 £77.19
90th Percentile £42.65 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £43.63 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.59% -39.82% +178.85%

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 9,324 9,007 11,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.27% 64.89% 64.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,072 5,706 8,343
10th Percentile £343 £328 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 109 207
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.75 £19.05
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +21.74% -1.71%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.60 £78.40 £74.25
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -23.33% +4.80% +11.34%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 0 10 £594 -1.04% 8
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 8 (9.20%) CMS
2 6 (6.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (5.75%) Confluence
4 4 (4.60%) WordPress
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.15%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.15%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.94%) Power Platform
2 10 (11.49%) Azure
3 7 (8.05%) GCP
4 5 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (4.60%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.60%) SaaS
6 3 (3.45%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.30%) Figma
7 2 (2.30%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.15%) Alation
8 1 (1.15%) dbt
8 1 (1.15%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.15%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.15%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) Power BI
2 8 (9.20%) Metadata
3 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.30%) Looker
3 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.30%) Tableau
4 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.15%) GIS
4 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.15%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) JIRA
2 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.75%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.30%) git-flow
4 1 (1.15%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) gulp
4 1 (1.15%) Maven
4 1 (1.15%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.09%) Finance
4 12 (13.79%) Banking
5 11 (12.64%) Marketing
6 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.75%) Retail
7 4 (4.60%) Advertising
7 4 (4.60%) Billing
7 4 (4.60%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.60%) Law
7 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.30%) French Language
9 2 (2.30%) German Language
10 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Legal
10 1 (1.15%) Local Government
10 1 (1.15%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (12.64%) Lead
2 10 (11.49%) Project Leader
3 9 (10.34%) Senior
4 7 (8.05%) Analyst
5 6 (6.90%) Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.75%) Designer
6 5 (5.75%) Developer
6 5 (5.75%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) CMS Specialist
7 4 (4.60%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.60%) DataOps Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Financial Controller
7 4 (4.60%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Applications Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) HTML
2 5 (5.75%) OAuth
3 4 (4.60%) CSS
3 4 (4.60%) OAuth2
3 4 (4.60%) React Native
3 4 (4.60%) REST
4 3 (3.45%) .NET
4 3 (3.45%) WPF
5 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.15%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.15%) CSS3
5 1 (1.15%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.15%) HTML5
5 1 (1.15%) OSGi
5 1 (1.15%) React
5 1 (1.15%) SAML
5 1 (1.15%) Servlets
5 1 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.15%) Vue
5 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.20%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (9.20%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.75%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.75%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.75%) Social Media
5 4 (4.60%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.60%) Genomics
5 4 (4.60%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (4.60%) Omics
6 3 (3.45%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.30%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.15%) Graphic Design
8 1 (1.15%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.15%) NHS
8 1 (1.15%) PMI
8 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Windows
2 4 (4.60%) Android
2 4 (4.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) Decision-Making
1 24 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.69%) Agile
3 17 (19.54%) DevOps
4 16 (18.39%) Data Analysis
5 15 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (13.79%) Visualisation
8 11 (12.64%) Collaborative Culture
8 11 (12.64%) Data Governance
8 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (11.49%) Analytics
9 10 (11.49%) Data Cleansing
10 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (10.34%) Migration
10 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (9.20%) Change Management
11 8 (9.20%) Machine Learning
11 8 (9.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) SQL
2 9 (10.34%) Python
3 3 (3.45%) C#
3 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.20%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) ACCA
2 4 (4.60%) CIMA
2 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.39%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) WCAG
4 1 (1.15%) PERC
4 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) Terraform
2 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) Google
2 9 (10.34%) Adobe
3 5 (5.75%) Apple
4 4 (4.60%) Xero
5 3 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.45%) Citrix
5 3 (3.45%) UiPath
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.15%) Botify
7 1 (1.15%) ESRI
7 1 (1.15%) Facebook
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.15%) Screaming Frog