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 13 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 300 278
Rank change year-on-year 0 -22 +84
Contract jobs citing Publishing 88 63 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the General category 0.90% 0.71% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 31 76
10th Percentile £323 £245 £266
25th Percentile £413 £453 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £731 £863
England median daily rate £500 £500 £454
% change year-on-year - +10.13% -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile - - £27.85
25th Percentile £18.25 £61.25 £31.60
Median hourly rate £18.50 £62.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.40% +64.47% +105.41%
75th Percentile £35.75 £63.75 £76.56
90th Percentile £42.65 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £42.00 £43.63 £41.88
% change year-on-year -3.74% +4.19% -10.90%

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 9,791 8,881 11,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.22% 65.31% 63.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,376 5,613 8,365
10th Percentile £350 £325 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 110 253
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.68 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £26.06 £18.79
Median hourly rate £28.55 £37.81 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.48% +31.50% +0.88%
75th Percentile £48.25 £55.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £78.44 £73.73
England median hourly rate £22.92 £30.31 £25.37
% change year-on-year -24.37% +19.45% -8.08%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 16 £575 -4.17% 6
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 10 (11.36%) CMS
2 6 (6.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (5.68%) Confluence
4 4 (4.55%) WordPress
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (17.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.14%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) Power Platform
2 13 (14.77%) Azure
3 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (4.55%) SaaS
5 3 (3.41%) Azure API Management
5 3 (3.41%) GCP
6 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.27%) Figma
6 2 (2.27%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.14%) dbt
7 1 (1.14%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub
7 1 (1.14%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.14%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.14%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) Power BI
2 7 (7.95%) Metadata
3 4 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (3.41%) Tableau
5 2 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.27%) Looker
5 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.27%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) git-flow
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) gulp
3 1 (1.14%) Maven
3 1 (1.14%) Pa11y
3 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Finance
4 12 (13.64%) Marketing
5 7 (7.95%) Banking
6 5 (5.68%) Advertising
6 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.68%) Law
6 5 (5.68%) Retail
7 4 (4.55%) Billing
7 4 (4.55%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.27%) French Language
9 2 (2.27%) German Language
9 2 (2.27%) Legal
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (12.50%) Lead
2 10 (11.36%) Project Leader
3 9 (10.23%) Senior
4 7 (7.95%) Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Designer
5 6 (6.82%) Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) CMS Specialist
7 4 (4.55%) Content Designer
7 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.55%) DataOps Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Financial Controller
7 4 (4.55%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Automation Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) HTML
2 5 (5.68%) OAuth
3 4 (4.55%) CSS
3 4 (4.55%) GeoJSON
3 4 (4.55%) Matplotlib
3 4 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 4 (4.55%) Pandas
3 4 (4.55%) Polars
3 4 (4.55%) React Native
3 4 (4.55%) REST
3 4 (4.55%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.41%) .NET
4 3 (3.41%) WPF
5 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.27%) React
6 1 (1.14%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.14%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.14%) Servlets
6 1 (1.14%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.68%) Social Media
5 4 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.55%) Genomics
5 4 (4.55%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Omics
6 3 (3.41%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (3.41%) NHS
7 2 (2.27%) Digital Media
7 2 (2.27%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.14%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (1.14%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.14%) New Media
8 1 (1.14%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Android
2 5 (5.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) Decision-Making
2 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.45%) Agile
4 16 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 15 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (14.77%) Data Cleansing
6 13 (14.77%) Visualisation
7 12 (13.64%) Data Governance
7 12 (13.64%) DevOps
8 11 (12.50%) Analytics
8 11 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
8 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (11.36%) AI
9 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.23%) Data Engineering
10 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
11 8 (9.09%) Change Management
11 8 (9.09%) Machine Learning
11 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.00%) SQL
2 10 (11.36%) Python
3 3 (3.41%) C#
3 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.14%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) ACCA
3 4 (4.55%) CIMA
3 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.45%) Accessibility
2 13 (14.77%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.55%) QA
4 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) WCAG
5 1 (1.14%) PERC
5 1 (1.14%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Adobe
2 8 (9.09%) Google
3 5 (5.68%) Apple
4 4 (4.55%) Xero
5 3 (3.41%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.41%) Citrix
5 3 (3.41%) UiPath
6 2 (2.27%) Facebook
7 1 (1.14%) Botify
7 1 (1.14%) Instagram
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle
7 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (1.14%) Workday