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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 301 311
Rank change year-on-year -39 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Publishing 104 59 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.43% 0.40%
As % of the General category 0.85% 0.63% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 26 43
10th Percentile £263 £357 £375
25th Percentile £318 £431 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £589 £666 £681
90th Percentile £670 £750 £796
England median daily rate £475 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +5.56% -17.05% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile - £32.50 £27.86
25th Percentile £35.25 £32.75 £29.82
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.48 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +4.26% -5.51%
75th Percentile £40.31 £37.50 -
90th Percentile £43.05 £44.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £39.26 £43.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -8.70% +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 12,241 9,311 10,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.72% 68.60% 62.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,796 6,205 7,129
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 183 145
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.61 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.28 £30.81 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -13.23% +1.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.63 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.65 £67.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -17 9 £458 -6.53% 12
East London +4 1 £432 +8.00% 1
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 21 (20.19%) CMS
2 8 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.85%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (2.88%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.92%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.92%) Confluence
6 2 (1.92%) Drupal
7 1 (0.96%) Apache
7 1 (0.96%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.96%) nginx
7 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.88%) MS Visio
1 3 (2.88%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.96%) InDesign
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.96%) SPSS
3 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Shopify
1 4 (3.85%) Sprinklr
2 3 (2.88%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (2.88%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.96%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.62%) Azure
3 5 (4.81%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (4.81%) AWS
3 5 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (4.81%) GitHub
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.81%) SaaS
4 4 (3.85%) Datadog
4 4 (3.85%) Google Analytics
4 4 (3.85%) Siteimprove
5 3 (2.88%) Azure AKS
5 3 (2.88%) GCP
5 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.88%) Lucidchart
6 2 (1.92%) Google Drive
6 2 (1.92%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) DNS
1 5 (4.81%) SSL
2 4 (3.85%) Firewall
2 4 (3.85%) VPN
3 2 (1.92%) Intranet
4 1 (0.96%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.96%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.96%) NFC
4 1 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.46%) Relational Database
2 12 (11.54%) Power BI
3 6 (5.77%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (5.77%) Metadata
4 5 (4.81%) Power Query
5 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.85%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.88%) Tableau
7 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.92%) GIS
7 2 (1.92%) MySQL
7 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.92%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.96%) SQLite
8 1 (0.96%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 3 (2.88%) Git
2 3 (2.88%) GitLab
2 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.96%) Gradle
3 1 (0.96%) JUnit
3 1 (0.96%) Maven
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.96%) Spock
3 1 (0.96%) Storybook
General
1 25 (24.04%) Finance
1 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.31%) Marketing
4 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Advertising
6 5 (4.81%) Legal
7 3 (2.88%) Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Front Office
8 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Local Government
8 2 (1.92%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.96%) French Language
9 1 (0.96%) German Language
9 1 (0.96%) Law
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (23.08%) Developer
2 14 (13.46%) Analyst
3 13 (12.50%) Senior
4 9 (8.65%) Kafka Developer
4 9 (8.65%) Python Developer
5 7 (6.73%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Designer
7 5 (4.81%) Content Designer
7 5 (4.81%) Support Manager
8 4 (3.85%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.85%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.85%) Lead
8 4 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (3.85%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.85%) Products Support Manager
8 4 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (3.85%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.85%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) REST
2 15 (14.42%) Pandas
2 15 (14.42%) Polars
3 12 (11.54%) HTML
4 11 (10.58%) CSS
5 9 (8.65%) Apache Avro
5 9 (8.65%) FastAPI
5 9 (8.65%) Flask
5 9 (8.65%) Kafka
5 9 (8.65%) NumPy
6 8 (7.69%) GeoJSON
7 6 (5.77%) Matplotlib
7 6 (5.77%) scikit-learn
8 4 (3.85%) Spring
8 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.88%) Node.js
9 3 (2.88%) Smart Contracts
10 2 (1.92%) .NET
10 2 (1.92%) JSON
10 2 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Equities
1 9 (8.65%) Hedge funds
1 9 (8.65%) Management Information System
1 9 (8.65%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.77%) Marketing Technology
3 5 (4.81%) Graphic Design
4 4 (3.85%) Digital Media
4 4 (3.85%) Social Media
5 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.92%) NHS
6 2 (1.92%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.81%) Linux
1 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.88%) Windows
3 2 (1.92%) Android
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.04%) Analytics
2 20 (19.23%) AI
3 19 (18.27%) Data Transformation
4 18 (17.31%) User Experience
5 17 (16.35%) Containerisation
6 16 (15.38%) Observability
7 15 (14.42%) Agile
7 15 (14.42%) Content Management
7 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (13.46%) Decision-Making
9 13 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
10 12 (11.54%) Data Modelling
10 12 (11.54%) Migration
10 12 (11.54%) SDLC
11 11 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (10.58%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.62%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (9.62%) UX Design
13 9 (8.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.96%) Python
1 27 (25.96%) SQL
2 9 (8.65%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.81%) Bash
4 4 (3.85%) C#
4 4 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.85%) Java
5 2 (1.92%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.92%) R
5 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.62%) Degree
3 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.81%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.96%) CBAP
6 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) PhD
6 1 (0.96%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.96%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.35%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.62%) QA
3 6 (5.77%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.81%) PMO
5 4 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.92%) WCAG
7 1 (0.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (11.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.81%) Ansible
2 5 (4.81%) Grafana
2 5 (4.81%) Prometheus
2 5 (4.81%) Terraform
3 4 (3.85%) systemd
4 3 (2.88%) Puppet
4 3 (2.88%) yum
5 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.50%) Google
3 9 (8.65%) Adobe
4 6 (5.77%) Optimizely
5 4 (3.85%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.85%) Pinterest
5 4 (3.85%) Sitecore
5 4 (3.85%) Snapchat
5 4 (3.85%) Tealium
5 4 (3.85%) TikTok
6 3 (2.88%) Oracle
6 3 (2.88%) Workday
7 2 (1.92%) Citrix
7 2 (1.92%) ESRI
7 2 (1.92%) UiPath
8 1 (0.96%) Apple
8 1 (0.96%) Informatica
8 1 (0.96%) Okta
8 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.96%) SAP