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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 314 329
Rank change year-on-year -27 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Publishing 97 53 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.81% 0.58% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 22 51
10th Percentile £263 £307 £315
25th Percentile £339 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £488 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% -8.02% +6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £647
90th Percentile £601 £671 £925
England median daily rate £453 £450 £509
% change year-on-year +0.56% -11.50% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile - £32.50 £22.57
25th Percentile £35.25 £32.75 £26.56
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.48 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +8.74% -9.40%
75th Percentile £40.31 £37.50 £33.07
90th Percentile £43.05 £44.50 -
England median hourly rate £44.87 £34.48 £43.00
% change year-on-year +30.13% -19.81% +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 11,907 9,185 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.44% 68.03% 62.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,622 6,119 7,804
10th Percentile £350 £330 £335
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.38% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 175 224
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £18.99
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.89 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +8.44% -9.88%
75th Percentile £45.06 £50.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £33.06 £27.13 £33.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% -17.80% +10.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +5 13 £429 -12.45% 5
East London 0 1 £432 +8.00% 2
South London - 1 £450 -
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 13 (13.40%) CMS
2 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) ArcGIS
3 2 (2.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.03%) Drupal
4 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
1 3 (3.09%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.03%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.03%) InDesign
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.03%) SPSS
3 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Sprinklr
1 4 (4.12%) Workday HCM
2 3 (3.09%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.03%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.37%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.34%) Azure
3 8 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.15%) SaaS
5 4 (4.12%) AWS
5 4 (4.12%) Datadog
5 4 (4.12%) GitHub
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.09%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.09%) GCP
6 3 (3.09%) Lucidchart
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.06%) Figma
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.06%) Google Ads
7 2 (2.06%) Google Drive
7 2 (2.06%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.06%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) DNS
1 4 (4.12%) Firewall
1 4 (4.12%) SSL
1 4 (4.12%) VPN
2 2 (2.06%) Intranet
3 1 (1.03%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.03%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.43%) Relational Database
2 11 (11.34%) Power BI
3 9 (9.28%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (5.15%) Power Query
5 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.12%) Metadata
5 4 (4.12%) Spatial Data
5 4 (4.12%) Star Schema
5 4 (4.12%) Tableau
6 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.06%) GIS
7 2 (2.06%) MySQL
7 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.03%) SQLite
8 1 (1.03%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Git
1 2 (2.06%) GitLab
1 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Android Studio
2 1 (1.03%) Gradle
2 1 (1.03%) JUnit
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.03%) Spock
2 1 (1.03%) Storybook
General
1 24 (24.74%) Finance
2 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.46%) Marketing
5 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.22%) Advertising
7 5 (5.15%) Legal
8 4 (4.12%) Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Law
9 2 (2.06%) Multimedia
9 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) French Language
10 1 (1.03%) Games
10 1 (1.03%) Local Government
10 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (23.71%) Developer
2 14 (14.43%) Analyst
3 12 (12.37%) Senior
4 10 (10.31%) Data Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Kafka Developer
5 9 (9.28%) Python Developer
6 7 (7.22%) Designer
7 6 (6.19%) Content Designer
8 5 (5.15%) Product Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Support Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Products Support Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Report Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 4 (4.12%) User Experience Researcher
9 4 (4.12%) Workday Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Business Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.56%) Pandas
1 18 (18.56%) Polars
2 17 (17.53%) REST
3 11 (11.34%) GeoJSON
4 9 (9.28%) Apache Avro
4 9 (9.28%) FastAPI
4 9 (9.28%) Flask
4 9 (9.28%) Kafka
4 9 (9.28%) Matplotlib
4 9 (9.28%) NumPy
4 9 (9.28%) scikit-learn
5 4 (4.12%) CSS
5 4 (4.12%) HTML
5 4 (4.12%) Spring
5 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.09%) Node.js
6 3 (3.09%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.06%) OAuth
7 2 (2.06%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.28%) Equities
2 9 (9.28%) Hedge funds
2 9 (9.28%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.19%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (5.15%) Digital Media
4 5 (5.15%) Graphic Design
5 4 (4.12%) Social Media
6 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) NHS
6 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.06%) Media Streaming
7 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.06%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (2.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Android
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
1 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.09%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.65%) Data Transformation
2 19 (19.59%) Analytics
3 18 (18.56%) User Experience
4 17 (17.53%) AI
4 17 (17.53%) Containerisation
4 17 (17.53%) Observability
5 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.43%) Data Modelling
7 13 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (13.40%) Decision-Making
8 12 (12.37%) Agile
8 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
8 12 (12.37%) Data Cleansing
8 12 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (12.37%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (11.34%) SDLC
10 10 (10.31%) Migration
10 10 (10.31%) User Research
10 10 (10.31%) UX Design
10 10 (10.31%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.96%) SQL
2 29 (29.90%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) Bash
3 4 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (4.12%) Java
3 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.06%) C#
5 2 (2.06%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.03%) R
6 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.28%) Degree
3 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.12%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) CBAP
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.25%) QA
3 7 (7.22%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.15%) PMO
5 2 (2.06%) WCAG
6 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (11.34%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.12%) Ansible
2 4 (4.12%) Grafana
2 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
2 4 (4.12%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Puppet
3 3 (3.09%) systemd
3 3 (3.09%) yum
4 1 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) Adobe
4 4 (4.12%) Pinterest
4 4 (4.12%) Snapchat
4 4 (4.12%) TikTok
4 4 (4.12%) Workday
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) Apple
6 2 (2.06%) Citrix
6 2 (2.06%) ESRI
6 2 (2.06%) Optimizely
6 2 (2.06%) UiPath
7 1 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.03%) Canon
7 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.03%) Facebook
7 1 (1.03%) Glassbox
7 1 (1.03%) Okta
7 1 (1.03%) Zscaler