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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 302 287
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 +68
Contract jobs citing Publishing 103 56 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the General category 1.00% 0.65% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 27 66
10th Percentile £288 £338 £256
25th Percentile £367 £457 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £638 £894
England median daily rate £475 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile - - £24.45
25th Percentile £18.25 £32.50 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £35.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% +10.38% -9.40%
75th Percentile £35.75 £46.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £42.65 £51.50 £40.05
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -6.67% +7.14%

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 10,330 8,576 11,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.31% 66.77% 63.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,725 5,738 8,209
10th Percentile £350 £333 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 133 255
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.36 £15.70
25th Percentile £20.36 £24.75 £18.52
Median hourly rate £29.02 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +14.75% -6.15%
75th Percentile £49.06 £55.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.22 £73.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.90 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.61% +18.86% -25.71%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +1 20 £538 -10.42% 9
East London - 1 £432 -
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 14 (13.59%) CMS
2 7 (6.80%) Confluence
3 6 (5.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.97%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.91%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.97%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Sprinklr
2 4 (3.88%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.97%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.48%) Azure
2 13 (12.62%) Power Platform
3 10 (9.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (7.77%) SaaS
5 4 (3.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (3.88%) GCP
6 3 (2.91%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.94%) Figma
7 2 (1.94%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.97%) dbt
8 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.97%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.97%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.97%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.97%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Power BI
2 9 (8.74%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.88%) Metadata
5 3 (2.91%) Tableau
6 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.94%) MySQL
6 2 (1.94%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.97%) Looker
7 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.97%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) git-flow
3 1 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) Spock
General
1 30 (29.13%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (24.27%) Social Skills
3 21 (20.39%) Marketing
4 17 (16.50%) Finance
5 8 (7.77%) Advertising
6 7 (6.80%) Banking
7 6 (5.83%) Law
7 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.83%) Retail
8 4 (3.88%) Billing
8 4 (3.88%) General Ledger
8 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.91%) French Language
9 3 (2.91%) German Language
10 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Legal
11 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (10.68%) Lead
1 11 (10.68%) Senior
2 10 (9.71%) Project Leader
3 9 (8.74%) Analyst
3 9 (8.74%) Data Engineer
3 9 (8.74%) Developer
4 6 (5.83%) Architect
4 6 (5.83%) Designer
5 5 (4.85%) Product Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Business Analyst
6 4 (3.88%) CMS Specialist
6 4 (3.88%) Content Designer
6 4 (3.88%) Data Scientist
6 4 (3.88%) Financial Controller
6 4 (3.88%) Mobile Engineer
6 4 (3.88%) Products Support Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Report Analyst
6 4 (3.88%) Support Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) Pandas
1 11 (10.68%) Polars
2 10 (9.71%) HTML
3 9 (8.74%) GeoJSON
3 9 (8.74%) Matplotlib
3 9 (8.74%) scikit-learn
4 7 (6.80%) REST
5 5 (4.85%) CSS
6 4 (3.88%) OAuth
6 4 (3.88%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.88%) React Native
7 3 (2.91%) .NET
7 3 (2.91%) WPF
8 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.94%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.94%) Flask
8 2 (1.94%) Kafka
8 2 (1.94%) NumPy
8 2 (1.94%) Spring
8 2 (1.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.77%) Social Media
3 6 (5.83%) Marketing Technology
3 6 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.88%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (3.88%) NHS
5 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.91%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.94%) Equities
6 2 (1.94%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.94%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.97%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.97%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.97%) Social Network
7 1 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.83%) Android
1 6 (5.83%) Apple iOS
1 6 (5.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (22.33%) Decision-Making
3 17 (16.50%) Data Cleansing
3 17 (16.50%) Visualisation
4 14 (13.59%) Agile
4 14 (13.59%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (12.62%) Analytics
6 12 (11.65%) Content Management
6 12 (11.65%) Data Analysis
7 11 (10.68%) AI
7 11 (10.68%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.68%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (9.71%) Data Transformation
8 10 (9.71%) Observability
8 10 (9.71%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.71%) Storytelling
9 9 (8.74%) Anomaly Detection
9 9 (8.74%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.13%) SQL
2 18 (17.48%) Python
3 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.91%) C#
4 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.94%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.97%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (6.80%) Degree
1 7 (6.80%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.88%) ACCA
3 4 (3.88%) CIMA
3 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.48%) Data Quality
2 17 (16.50%) Accessibility
3 9 (8.74%) QA
4 3 (2.91%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) PERC
5 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) Adobe
2 10 (9.71%) Google
3 4 (3.88%) Apple
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.88%) Pinterest
3 4 (3.88%) Snapchat
3 4 (3.88%) TikTok
3 4 (3.88%) Workday
3 4 (3.88%) Xero
4 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.91%) Citrix
4 3 (2.91%) UiPath
5 2 (1.94%) Facebook
5 2 (1.94%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.97%) Botify
6 1 (0.97%) Instagram
6 1 (0.97%) Okta
6 1 (0.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (0.97%) Zscaler