Publishing Contracts 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 327 326
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Publishing 59 64 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.39% 0.60%
As % of the General category 0.63% 0.63% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 90
10th Percentile £357 £375 £257
25th Percentile £431 £419 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £666 £681 £555
90th Percentile £750 £796 £639
England median daily rate £450 £543 £475
% change year-on-year -17.05% +14.21% -9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £32.50 £27.86 £25.63
25th Percentile £32.75 £29.82 £32.19
Median hourly rate £34.48 £33.07 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -24.41% +100.11%
75th Percentile £37.50 - £54.69
90th Percentile £44.50 - £60.88
England median hourly rate £41.50 £43.00 £46.09
% change year-on-year -3.49% -6.70% +72.30%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,297 10,131 15,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.72% 62.50% 64.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,173 7,111 11,055
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.83% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 146 171
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.61 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +1.73% -2.10%
75th Percentile £49.63 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in London

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Publishing in London.

Daily rate trend for Publishing in London

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in London

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Publishing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in London

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

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 14 August 2025. 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 4 £490 -12.89% 18
East London +12 1 £400 -30.43% 4
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.47%) CMS
2 2 (3.39%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.39%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) AWS
2 7 (11.86%) GCP
3 5 (8.47%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.08%) Figma
4 3 (5.08%) GitHub
4 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.08%) Serverless
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.39%) Canva
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.69%) dbt
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Metadata
2 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.39%) Big Data
3 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.39%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.69%) GIS
4 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.69%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) JIRA
2 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) SonarQube
2 5 (8.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Legal
4 7 (11.86%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Games
6 4 (6.78%) Law
6 4 (6.78%) Marketing
7 3 (5.08%) Advertising
7 3 (5.08%) Local Government
8 2 (3.39%) French Language
8 2 (3.39%) German Language
8 2 (3.39%) Italian Language
8 2 (3.39%) Japanese Language
8 2 (3.39%) Public Speaking
8 2 (3.39%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (13.56%) Analyst
2 7 (11.86%) Senior
3 6 (10.17%) Designer
4 5 (8.47%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Consultant
6 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) .NET
1 3 (5.08%) REST
2 2 (3.39%) HTML
2 2 (3.39%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.39%) Keras
2 2 (3.39%) OAuth
2 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.39%) OpenID
2 2 (3.39%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.39%) SAML
2 2 (3.39%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.39%) WPF
3 1 (1.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.69%) Flash
3 1 (1.69%) gRPC
3 1 (1.69%) HTML5
3 1 (1.69%) NestJS
3 1 (1.69%) PySpark
3 1 (1.69%) Redux
3 1 (1.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.47%) PMI
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.08%) Digital Media
4 3 (5.08%) Graphic Design
4 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.39%) Learning Management System
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.39%) Social Media
5 2 (3.39%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.69%) Blog
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.69%) Mixed Reality
6 1 (1.69%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (23.73%) Agile
3 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
4 11 (18.64%) DevOps
4 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (15.25%) Analytics
5 9 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 9 (15.25%) Project Management
5 9 (15.25%) Scrum
5 9 (15.25%) User Experience
6 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
7 7 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (11.86%) Mentoring
7 7 (11.86%) Migration
8 6 (10.17%) Coaching
8 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.17%) LLM
8 6 (10.17%) Storytelling
9 5 (8.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.25%) Python
2 4 (6.78%) C#
2 4 (6.78%) SQL
3 3 (5.08%) Go
3 3 (5.08%) Java
4 2 (3.39%) R
5 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Degree
2 5 (8.47%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.69%) ACCA
5 1 (1.69%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) GRC
2 1 (1.69%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Terraform
2 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) Google
3 3 (5.08%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
4 2 (3.39%) Citrix
4 2 (3.39%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.39%) UiPath
5 1 (1.69%) ESRI