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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 299 289
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +74
Contract jobs citing Publishing 100 58 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.46% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.94% 0.68% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 25 62
10th Percentile £279 £307 £258
25th Percentile £347 £456 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £648
90th Percentile £659 £638 £881
England median daily rate £450 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -12.20% +20.59% -22.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £18.25 - £21.91
25th Percentile £24.75 £32.50 £24.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £29.14
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +20.13% -16.76%
75th Percentile £39.20 £46.25 £31.71
90th Percentile £42.65 £51.50 -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £35.00 £41.63
% change year-on-year +61.43% -15.92% +18.93%

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 10,644 8,491 11,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.53% 67.03% 63.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,947 5,735 8,094
10th Percentile £347 £334 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 139 251
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.57 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.75 £53.75 £48.92
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £69.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £29.04 £27.50
% change year-on-year -5.29% +5.58% -21.43%

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 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 20 £538 -10.42% 9
East London - 1 £432 -
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 14 (14.00%) CMS
2 7 (7.00%) Confluence
3 5 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.00%) WordPress
5 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.00%) Drupal
6 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.00%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Sprinklr
2 4 (4.00%) Workday HCM
3 3 (3.00%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (1.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.00%) Azure
2 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.00%) SaaS
5 4 (4.00%) GCP
6 3 (3.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.00%) Figma
7 2 (2.00%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.00%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.00%) dbt
8 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.00%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.00%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.00%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
1 1 (1.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (9.00%) Geospatial Data
3 7 (7.00%) Power BI
4 4 (4.00%) Metadata
5 3 (3.00%) Tableau
6 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.00%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.00%) Looker
7 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.00%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) git-flow
3 1 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) GitLab
3 1 (1.00%) Spock
3 1 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 23 (23.00%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.00%) Finance
3 20 (20.00%) Marketing
4 7 (7.00%) Advertising
4 7 (7.00%) Banking
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Retail
6 4 (4.00%) Law
7 3 (3.00%) French Language
7 3 (3.00%) German Language
7 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Billing
8 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.00%) Legal
9 1 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (14.00%) Developer
2 11 (11.00%) Senior
3 9 (9.00%) Analyst
3 9 (9.00%) Data Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Designer
5 6 (6.00%) Lead
6 5 (5.00%) Content Designer
6 5 (5.00%) Kafka Developer
6 5 (5.00%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Project Leader
6 5 (5.00%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.00%) Architect
7 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.00%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Products Support Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Report Analyst
7 4 (4.00%) Support Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Workday Analyst
8 3 (3.00%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) Pandas
1 14 (14.00%) Polars
2 10 (10.00%) REST
3 9 (9.00%) GeoJSON
3 9 (9.00%) HTML
3 9 (9.00%) Matplotlib
3 9 (9.00%) scikit-learn
4 5 (5.00%) Apache Avro
4 5 (5.00%) CSS
4 5 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 5 (5.00%) Flask
4 5 (5.00%) Kafka
4 5 (5.00%) NumPy
5 4 (4.00%) OAuth
5 4 (4.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (4.00%) React Native
5 4 (4.00%) Spring
5 4 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.00%) .NET
6 3 (3.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.00%) Social Media
3 7 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (6.00%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (5.00%) Equities
5 5 (5.00%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (4.00%) NHS
7 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.00%) Digital Media
8 2 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.00%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (1.00%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.00%) New Media
9 1 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Android
1 6 (6.00%) Apple iOS
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (16.00%) Decision-Making
3 15 (15.00%) Analytics
4 14 (14.00%) Agile
5 13 (13.00%) Data Transformation
5 13 (13.00%) Observability
6 12 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.00%) Content Management
6 12 (12.00%) Data Cleansing
6 12 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (12.00%) Visualisation
7 11 (11.00%) AI
8 10 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (10.00%) Storytelling
9 9 (9.00%) Anomaly Detection
9 9 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
9 9 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (8.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) SQL
2 20 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.00%) C#
4 3 (3.00%) Java
4 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.00%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.00%) Degree
3 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) ACCA
4 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.00%) CIMA
4 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.00%) Accessibility
2 13 (13.00%) Data Quality
3 9 (9.00%) QA
4 3 (3.00%) GDPR
4 3 (3.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) PERC
5 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Adobe
1 10 (10.00%) Google
2 4 (4.00%) Apple
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.00%) Pinterest
2 4 (4.00%) Snapchat
2 4 (4.00%) TikTok
2 4 (4.00%) Workday
3 3 (3.00%) Citrix
3 3 (3.00%) Oracle
3 3 (3.00%) UiPath
4 2 (2.00%) Facebook
4 2 (2.00%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.00%) Xero
5 1 (1.00%) Botify
5 1 (1.00%) Instagram
5 1 (1.00%) Okta
5 1 (1.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.00%) Zscaler