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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 312 280
Rank change year-on-year +19 -32 +77
Contract jobs citing Publishing 89 71 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the General category 0.93% 0.73% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 78
10th Percentile £300 £396 £269
25th Percentile £409 £457 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £648
90th Percentile £685 £731 £715
England median daily rate £500 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% -10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile - - £31.53
25th Percentile £18.25 £61.25 £37.23
Median hourly rate £18.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.40% -3.85% +122.22%
75th Percentile £33.93 £63.75 £76.88
90th Percentile £34.48 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £37.99 £32.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year +16.89% -52.73% +44.74%

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 9,590 9,667 12,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.69% 64.32% 64.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,163 8,773
10th Percentile £339 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 117 161
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% - +3.49%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £76.36 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +1 8 £619 +1.02% 1
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 (8.99%) CMS
2 6 (6.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (5.62%) Confluence
4 4 (4.49%) WordPress
5 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.12%) Apache
6 1 (1.12%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (16.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.61%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.11%) Azure
3 7 (7.87%) GCP
4 5 (5.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (4.49%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.49%) SaaS
6 3 (3.37%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.37%) Figma
6 3 (3.37%) GitHub
6 3 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.25%) AWS
7 2 (2.25%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.12%) Alation
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.12%) Canva
8 1 (1.12%) dbt
8 1 (1.12%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.12%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.12%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) Power BI
2 9 (10.11%) Metadata
3 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.25%) Looker
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.25%) Tableau
4 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.12%) GIS
4 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.12%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) JIRA
2 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.62%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.25%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) gulp
4 1 (1.12%) Maven
4 1 (1.12%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Marketing
5 8 (8.99%) Banking
6 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.62%) Retail
7 4 (4.49%) Advertising
7 4 (4.49%) Billing
7 4 (4.49%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.49%) Law
7 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.37%) Local Government
9 2 (2.25%) French Language
9 2 (2.25%) German Language
9 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Games
10 1 (1.12%) Legal
10 1 (1.12%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 11 (12.36%) Lead
2 10 (11.24%) Project Leader
3 8 (8.99%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.87%) Analyst
4 7 (7.87%) Designer
4 7 (7.87%) Developer
4 7 (7.87%) Senior
5 5 (5.62%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Architect
6 4 (4.49%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) CMS Specialist
6 4 (4.49%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.49%) DataOps Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Financial Controller
6 4 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Applications Developer
7 3 (3.37%) Automation Developer
7 3 (3.37%) Python Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) HTML
2 5 (5.62%) REST
3 4 (4.49%) .NET
3 4 (4.49%) CSS
4 3 (3.37%) WPF
5 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.25%) HTML5
5 2 (2.25%) React
6 1 (1.12%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.12%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.12%) Express.js
6 1 (1.12%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.12%) gRPC
6 1 (1.12%) NestJS
6 1 (1.12%) Node.js
6 1 (1.12%) OSGi
6 1 (1.12%) PySpark
6 1 (1.12%) Redux
6 1 (1.12%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (8.99%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.74%) Social Media
5 5 (5.62%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.62%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.49%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.49%) Genomics
6 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.49%) Omics
7 3 (3.37%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (3.37%) PMI
7 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.25%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (2.25%) Graphic Design
8 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.12%) Blog
9 1 (1.12%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (1.12%) Podcast
9 1 (1.12%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (28.09%) Decision-Making
3 23 (25.84%) Agile
4 17 (19.10%) DevOps
5 16 (17.98%) Data Analysis
6 15 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (15.73%) Analytics
8 13 (14.61%) CI/CD
9 12 (13.48%) Data Governance
9 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.48%) Visualisation
10 11 (12.36%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (11.24%) Data Cleansing
12 9 (10.11%) Migration
12 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (8.99%) Data Modelling
13 8 (8.99%) Machine Learning
13 8 (8.99%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.10%) SQL
2 9 (10.11%) Python
3 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.37%) C#
5 2 (2.25%) Go
5 2 (2.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) ACCA
2 4 (4.49%) CIMA
2 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.37%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.37%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.22%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.24%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) WCAG
4 1 (1.12%) PERC
4 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Adobe
1 8 (8.99%) Google
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.49%) Xero
4 3 (3.37%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.37%) Citrix
4 3 (3.37%) UiPath
5 2 (2.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) Apple
6 1 (1.12%) Botify
6 1 (1.12%) Databricks
6 1 (1.12%) ESRI
6 1 (1.12%) Facebook
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.12%) Synthesia