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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 294 321
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 +10
Contract jobs citing Publishing 86 54 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.45% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.78% 0.66% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 50
10th Percentile £263 £382 £275
25th Percentile £350 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year -15.48% +0.77% -0.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £661
90th Percentile £606 - £925
England median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £32.50 £23.24
Median hourly rate £41.26 £35.00 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year +17.87% +31.78% -0.71%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.88 £29.14
90th Percentile £43.98 £49.75 £30.68
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -18.60% +22.86%

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 10,988 8,192 10,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.88% 67.80% 62.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,095 5,475 7,858
10th Percentile £350 £341 £336
25th Percentile £431 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 146 237
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.80
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.90 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.17 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +3.91% -5.39%
75th Percentile £45.22 £50.50 £46.48
90th Percentile £65.48 £63.50 £65.01
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.93% -8.82% -5.63%

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 28 May 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
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 28 May 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 -2 19 £479 -16.70% 2
East London -6 1 £432 +8.00%
South London - 1 £450 - 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 11 (12.79%) CMS
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) ArcGIS
3 2 (2.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) Drupal
4 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.16%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.16%) InDesign
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.16%) SPSS
3 1 (1.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Sprinklr
2 4 (4.65%) Workday HCM
3 3 (3.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (1.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.95%) Azure
2 10 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
2 10 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.65%) GCP
3 4 (4.65%) SaaS
4 3 (3.49%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.33%) Figma
5 2 (2.33%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.16%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.16%) Canva
6 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.16%) GitHub
6 1 (1.16%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.16%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.16%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Intranet
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) Relational Database
2 9 (10.47%) Geospatial Data
2 9 (10.47%) Power BI
3 5 (5.81%) Tableau
4 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.65%) Spatial Data
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.33%) GIS
5 2 (2.33%) Metadata
5 2 (2.33%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.33%) Power Query
5 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.16%) Looker
6 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.16%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.16%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) git-flow
1 2 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
2 1 (1.16%) Spock
2 1 (1.16%) Storybook
General
1 21 (24.42%) Finance
2 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.28%) Marketing
5 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.98%) Banking
7 5 (5.81%) Advertising
8 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Law
8 2 (2.33%) Legal
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.16%) French Language
9 1 (1.16%) Games
9 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (23.26%) Developer
2 15 (17.44%) Senior
3 10 (11.63%) Data Engineer
4 9 (10.47%) Analyst
4 9 (10.47%) Kafka Developer
4 9 (10.47%) Python Developer
5 7 (8.14%) Designer
6 6 (6.98%) Content Designer
7 5 (5.81%) Product Manager
7 5 (5.81%) Support Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Mobile Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Products Support Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Report Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Workday Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 3 (3.49%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.93%) Pandas
1 18 (20.93%) Polars
2 15 (17.44%) REST
3 11 (12.79%) GeoJSON
4 9 (10.47%) Apache Avro
4 9 (10.47%) FastAPI
4 9 (10.47%) Flask
4 9 (10.47%) Kafka
4 9 (10.47%) Matplotlib
4 9 (10.47%) NumPy
4 9 (10.47%) scikit-learn
5 5 (5.81%) HTML
6 4 (4.65%) CSS
6 4 (4.65%) OAuth
6 4 (4.65%) OAuth2
6 4 (4.65%) React Native
6 4 (4.65%) Spring
6 4 (4.65%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.49%) Node.js
7 3 (3.49%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Management Information System
2 9 (10.47%) Equities
2 9 (10.47%) Hedge funds
3 8 (9.30%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.98%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (6.98%) Social Media
5 4 (4.65%) Digital Media
5 4 (4.65%) Graphic Design
5 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.65%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (4.65%) NHS
6 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.16%) New Media
7 1 (1.16%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.98%) Android
1 6 (6.98%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.26%) Data Transformation
2 18 (20.93%) Analytics
3 16 (18.60%) Observability
4 15 (17.44%) CI/CD
4 15 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.12%) Containerisation
5 13 (15.12%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (15.12%) User Experience
6 12 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (12.79%) Agile
7 11 (12.79%) AI
7 11 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (12.79%) Decision-Making
7 11 (12.79%) Release Management
7 11 (12.79%) User Research
8 10 (11.63%) Data Cleansing
8 10 (11.63%) Data Modelling
8 10 (11.63%) SDLC
8 10 (11.63%) Visualisation
9 9 (10.47%) Anomaly Detection
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.72%) SQL
2 25 (29.07%) Python
3 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.49%) Java
4 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.33%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.16%) C#
6 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) Degree
3 6 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.12%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.30%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.30%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) PMO
3 2 (2.33%) WCAG
4 1 (1.16%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Google
2 7 (8.14%) Adobe
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.65%) Apple
3 4 (4.65%) Pinterest
3 4 (4.65%) Snapchat
3 4 (4.65%) TikTok
3 4 (4.65%) Workday
4 3 (3.49%) Oracle
5 2 (2.33%) ESRI
5 2 (2.33%) Facebook
5 2 (2.33%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.16%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.16%) Citrix
6 1 (1.16%) Glassbox
6 1 (1.16%) Instagram
6 1 (1.16%) Okta
6 1 (1.16%) SAP
6 1 (1.16%) UiPath
6 1 (1.16%) Zscaler