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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 300 319
Rank change year-on-year -49 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Publishing 100 59 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the General category 0.82% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 27 42
10th Percentile £275 £359 £325
25th Percentile £390 £419 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -8.11% +11.00%
75th Percentile £586 £656 £684
90th Percentile £671 £745 £731
England median daily rate £460 £450 £532
% change year-on-year +2.22% -15.33% +10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £36.21 £32.75 £27.86
25th Percentile £37.66 £33.00 £29.82
Median hourly rate £40.19 £34.48 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% +4.26% -54.39%
75th Percentile £42.59 £36.88 -
90th Percentile £43.96 £46.25 -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.65% -1.16% -37.45%

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 12,267 9,228 10,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.87% 69.03% 62.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,798 6,135 6,970
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £501 £538
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 184 140
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.10% -12.51% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £65.13
England median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +33.38%

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 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 28 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 -19 6 £550 +12.24% 12
East London +3 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 23 (23.00%) CMS
2 7 (7.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (4.00%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (3.00%) Umbraco
6 2 (2.00%) ArcGIS
6 2 (2.00%) Drupal
7 1 (1.00%) Apache
7 1 (1.00%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.00%) Headless CMS
7 1 (1.00%) nginx
7 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.00%) InDesign
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.00%) SPSS
3 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Shopify
2 3 (3.00%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (2.00%) Sprinklr
3 2 (2.00%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (10.00%) Azure
3 6 (6.00%) Adobe Analytics
3 6 (6.00%) AWS
4 5 (5.00%) GitHub
4 5 (5.00%) Google Analytics
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.00%) Datadog
5 4 (4.00%) Siteimprove
6 3 (3.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (3.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.00%) Alation
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.00%) Collibra
7 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.00%) Miro
7 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) DNS
1 5 (5.00%) SSL
2 4 (4.00%) Firewall
2 4 (4.00%) VPN
3 2 (2.00%) Intranet
4 1 (1.00%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.00%) NFC
4 1 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (12.00%) Power BI
3 7 (7.00%) Metadata
4 5 (5.00%) Power Query
5 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (4.00%) Star Schema
6 3 (3.00%) Spatial Data
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.00%) Tableau
7 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.00%) GIS
7 2 (2.00%) MySQL
7 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.00%) QGIS
8 1 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.00%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.00%) SQLite
8 1 (1.00%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 3 (3.00%) Git
2 3 (3.00%) GitLab
2 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.00%) Gradle
3 1 (1.00%) JUnit
3 1 (1.00%) Maven
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.00%) Spock
3 1 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 26 (26.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.00%) Marketing
5 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.00%) Legal
7 5 (5.00%) Advertising
8 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Banking
9 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Front Office
10 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Local Government
10 2 (2.00%) Multimedia
11 1 (1.00%) French Language
11 1 (1.00%) German Language
11 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (24.00%) Developer
2 14 (14.00%) Analyst
2 14 (14.00%) Senior
3 9 (9.00%) Kafka Developer
3 9 (9.00%) Python Developer
4 6 (6.00%) Designer
5 5 (5.00%) Content Designer
6 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.00%) Lead
6 4 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
6 4 (4.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
6 4 (4.00%) User Experience Researcher
6 4 (4.00%) Web Specialist
7 3 (3.00%) Architect
7 3 (3.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.00%) REST
2 13 (13.00%) HTML
3 12 (12.00%) CSS
3 12 (12.00%) Pandas
3 12 (12.00%) Polars
4 9 (9.00%) Apache Avro
4 9 (9.00%) FastAPI
4 9 (9.00%) Flask
4 9 (9.00%) Kafka
4 9 (9.00%) NumPy
5 5 (5.00%) GeoJSON
5 5 (5.00%) Terraform
6 4 (4.00%) Spring
6 4 (4.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.00%) Matplotlib
7 3 (3.00%) Node.js
7 3 (3.00%) scikit-learn
7 3 (3.00%) Smart Contracts
8 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.00%) Equities
2 9 (9.00%) Hedge funds
3 6 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.00%) Graphic Design
5 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.00%) Digital Media
5 3 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.00%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.00%) Social Media
7 1 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Linux
1 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.00%) Analytics
2 21 (21.00%) AI
3 18 (18.00%) Data Transformation
4 17 (17.00%) Containerisation
4 17 (17.00%) User Experience
5 16 (16.00%) Observability
6 15 (15.00%) Agile
7 14 (14.00%) CI/CD
7 14 (14.00%) Content Management
7 14 (14.00%) Decision-Making
8 13 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (12.00%) Migration
9 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (12.00%) SDLC
10 11 (11.00%) Data Modelling
10 11 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 10 (10.00%) UX Design
12 9 (9.00%) Release Management
12 9 (9.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.00%) SQL
2 23 (23.00%) Python
3 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.00%) Bash
5 4 (4.00%) C#
5 4 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.00%) R
6 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (11.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.00%) CBAP
6 1 (1.00%) CCSAS
6 1 (1.00%) PhD
6 1 (1.00%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.00%) QA
3 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.00%) PMO
4 4 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.00%) WCAG
6 1 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.00%) Ansible
2 5 (5.00%) Grafana
2 5 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.00%) systemd
4 3 (3.00%) Puppet
4 3 (3.00%) yum
Vendors
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.00%) Google
3 10 (10.00%) Adobe
4 6 (6.00%) Optimizely
5 4 (4.00%) Amplitude
5 4 (4.00%) Sitecore
5 4 (4.00%) Tealium
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.00%) Citrix
7 2 (2.00%) Databricks
7 2 (2.00%) ESRI
7 2 (2.00%) Pinterest
7 2 (2.00%) Snapchat
7 2 (2.00%) TikTok
7 2 (2.00%) UiPath
7 2 (2.00%) Workday
8 1 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.00%) Glassbox
8 1 (1.00%) Sonatype