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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 289 279
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 +72
Contract jobs citing Publishing 94 63 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.47% 0.60%
As % of the General category 0.93% 0.72% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 29 71
10th Percentile £300 £354 £256
25th Percentile £403 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.63%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £688
90th Percentile £675 £658 £900
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile - £35.38 £24.45
25th Percentile £18.25 £39.69 £31.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £48.75 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -62.05% +53.74% -9.40%
75th Percentile £35.75 £57.19 £33.75
90th Percentile £42.65 £61.13 £40.05
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £38.88
% change year-on-year +57.14% -9.97% +11.07%

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 10,100 8,811 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.60% 65.60% 63.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,593 5,657 8,292
10th Percentile £350 £331 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £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 168 117 258
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.63 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.72 £26.25 £18.37
Median hourly rate £28.78 £35.50 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% +22.94% -3.75%
75th Percentile £50.54 £55.25 £47.31
90th Percentile £73.78 £78.54 £72.58
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.76% +17.12% -15.09%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +6 20 £575 -4.17% 3
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 (10.64%) CMS
2 7 (7.45%) Confluence
3 6 (6.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (4.26%) WordPress
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.06%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.06%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Sprinklr
2 2 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.96%) Azure
2 13 (13.83%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.32%) SaaS
5 4 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.19%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.19%) GCP
7 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.13%) Figma
7 2 (2.13%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.06%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub
8 1 (1.06%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.06%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.06%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) Power BI
2 7 (7.45%) Metadata
3 6 (6.38%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (3.19%) Tableau
5 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.13%) Looker
5 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.13%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) git-flow
3 1 (1.06%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) gulp
3 1 (1.06%) Maven
3 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 24 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
1 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Finance
3 14 (14.89%) Marketing
4 7 (7.45%) Banking
5 6 (6.38%) Advertising
5 6 (6.38%) Retail
6 5 (5.32%) Law
6 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.26%) Billing
7 4 (4.26%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.13%) French Language
9 2 (2.13%) German Language
10 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Legal
10 1 (1.06%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (11.70%) Lead
2 10 (10.64%) Project Leader
3 9 (9.57%) Senior
4 7 (7.45%) Analyst
5 6 (6.38%) Architect
5 6 (6.38%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.38%) Designer
5 6 (6.38%) Developer
5 6 (6.38%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.26%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.26%) CMS Specialist
6 4 (4.26%) Content Designer
6 4 (4.26%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.26%) DataOps Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Financial Controller
6 4 (4.26%) Mobile Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Applications Developer
7 3 (3.19%) Consultant
7 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.19%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) HTML
2 6 (6.38%) GeoJSON
2 6 (6.38%) Matplotlib
2 6 (6.38%) Pandas
2 6 (6.38%) Polars
2 6 (6.38%) scikit-learn
3 5 (5.32%) OAuth
4 4 (4.26%) CSS
4 4 (4.26%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.26%) React Native
4 4 (4.26%) REST
5 3 (3.19%) .NET
5 3 (3.19%) WPF
6 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.13%) React
7 1 (1.06%) Ajax
7 1 (1.06%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.06%) CSS3
7 1 (1.06%) HTML5
7 1 (1.06%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (9.57%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.51%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (6.38%) Social Media
5 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.26%) Genomics
6 4 (4.26%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (4.26%) NHS
6 4 (4.26%) Omics
7 3 (3.19%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (2.13%) Digital Media
8 2 (2.13%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.06%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (1.06%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Windows
2 6 (6.38%) Android
2 6 (6.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.66%) Decision-Making
2 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (19.15%) Agile
4 16 (17.02%) Data Analysis
5 15 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (14.89%) Data Cleansing
6 14 (14.89%) Visualisation
7 12 (12.77%) Data Governance
7 12 (12.77%) DevOps
8 11 (11.70%) Analytics
8 11 (11.70%) Collaborative Culture
8 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (10.64%) AI
9 10 (10.64%) CI/CD
9 10 (10.64%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.57%) Change Management
10 9 (9.57%) Data Engineering
10 9 (9.57%) Machine Learning
10 9 (9.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.53%) SQL
2 12 (12.77%) Python
3 3 (3.19%) C#
3 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 7 (7.45%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.26%) ACCA
4 4 (4.26%) CIMA
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) Accessibility
2 15 (15.96%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.32%) QA
4 2 (2.13%) GDPR
5 1 (1.06%) PERC
5 1 (1.06%) PMO
5 1 (1.06%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.57%) Adobe
1 9 (9.57%) Google
2 4 (4.26%) Apple
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.26%) Xero
3 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.19%) Citrix
3 3 (3.19%) UiPath
4 2 (2.13%) Facebook
4 2 (2.13%) Workday
5 1 (1.06%) Botify
5 1 (1.06%) Instagram
5 1 (1.06%) Okta
5 1 (1.06%) Pinterest
5 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.06%) Snapchat
5 1 (1.06%) TikTok
5 1 (1.06%) Zscaler