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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 292 292
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +72
Contract jobs citing Publishing 102 59 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.47% 0.56%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.70% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 26 67
10th Percentile £288 £323 £268
25th Percentile £350 £456 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £673 £638 £850
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile - - £22.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £32.50 £26.56
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +10.38% -9.40%
75th Percentile £37.48 £46.25 -
90th Percentile £42.65 £51.50 £39.23
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -6.67% +7.14%

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 10,492 8,432 11,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.95% 66.91% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,837 5,699 8,152
10th Percentile £350 £336 £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 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 137 251
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.58 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.69 £53.75 £48.92
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.40
% change year-on-year -14.10% +13.64% -24.57%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +5 20 £538 -10.42% 9
East London - 1 £432 -
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 (13.73%) CMS
2 7 (6.86%) Confluence
3 6 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (3.92%) WordPress
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.94%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.98%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Sprinklr
2 4 (3.92%) Workday HCM
3 3 (2.94%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.98%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.67%) Azure
2 10 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.86%) SaaS
5 4 (3.92%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (3.92%) GCP
6 3 (2.94%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.96%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.96%) Figma
7 2 (1.96%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.98%) dbt
8 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.98%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.98%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.98%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.98%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) Geospatial Data
1 9 (8.82%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.84%) Power BI
3 4 (3.92%) Metadata
4 3 (2.94%) Tableau
5 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 2 (1.96%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.98%) Looker
6 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.98%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (9.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) git-flow
3 1 (0.98%) Git
3 1 (0.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.98%) Spock
General
1 25 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Marketing
3 20 (19.61%) Finance
4 8 (7.84%) Advertising
5 7 (6.86%) Banking
6 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.88%) Retail
7 5 (4.90%) Law
8 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.94%) Billing
9 3 (2.94%) French Language
9 3 (2.94%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.94%) German Language
10 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.96%) Legal
11 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (12.75%) Developer
2 11 (10.78%) Senior
3 9 (8.82%) Analyst
3 9 (8.82%) Data Engineer
4 7 (6.86%) Lead
5 6 (5.88%) Designer
5 6 (5.88%) Project Leader
6 5 (4.90%) Architect
6 5 (4.90%) Product Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) CMS Specialist
7 4 (3.92%) Content Designer
7 4 (3.92%) Data Scientist
7 4 (3.92%) Kafka Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Products Support Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Python Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Report Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) Pandas
1 13 (12.75%) Polars
2 10 (9.80%) HTML
2 10 (9.80%) REST
3 9 (8.82%) GeoJSON
3 9 (8.82%) Matplotlib
3 9 (8.82%) scikit-learn
4 5 (4.90%) CSS
5 4 (3.92%) Apache Avro
5 4 (3.92%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.92%) Flask
5 4 (3.92%) Kafka
5 4 (3.92%) NumPy
5 4 (3.92%) OAuth
5 4 (3.92%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.92%) React Native
5 4 (3.92%) Spring
5 4 (3.92%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.94%) Node.js
6 3 (2.94%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.84%) Social Media
3 6 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.92%) Equities
4 4 (3.92%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.92%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (3.92%) NHS
5 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.94%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.98%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.98%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.98%) New Media
7 1 (0.98%) Social Network
7 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Android
1 6 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 6 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (17.65%) Decision-Making
3 15 (14.71%) Analytics
4 14 (13.73%) Agile
5 13 (12.75%) Data Cleansing
5 13 (12.75%) Observability
5 13 (12.75%) Visualisation
6 12 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 12 (11.76%) Content Management
6 12 (11.76%) Data Transformation
6 12 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (10.78%) AI
8 10 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.80%) Storytelling
9 9 (8.82%) Anomaly Detection
9 9 (8.82%) Change Management
9 9 (8.82%) Roadmaps
9 9 (8.82%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.45%) SQL
2 20 (19.61%) Python
3 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.94%) C#
4 3 (2.94%) Java
4 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.96%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.86%) Degree
3 6 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.94%) ACCA
5 3 (2.94%) CIMA
5 3 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.75%) Accessibility
3 9 (8.82%) QA
4 3 (2.94%) GDPR
5 2 (1.96%) PMO
6 1 (0.98%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (4.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (10.78%) Adobe
2 10 (9.80%) Google
3 4 (3.92%) Apple
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) Pinterest
3 4 (3.92%) Snapchat
3 4 (3.92%) TikTok
3 4 (3.92%) Workday
4 3 (2.94%) Citrix
4 3 (2.94%) Oracle
4 3 (2.94%) UiPath
4 3 (2.94%) Xero
5 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.96%) Facebook
5 2 (1.96%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.98%) Botify
6 1 (0.98%) Instagram
6 1 (0.98%) Okta
6 1 (0.98%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (0.98%) Zscaler