Publishing Contracts in the Midlands

Publishing
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 140 186
Rank change year-on-year +9 +46 -26
Contract jobs citing Publishing 10 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.63% 1.02% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 11
10th Percentile - £251 £313
25th Percentile £166 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% - +89.47%
75th Percentile £441 £464 £498
90th Percentile £495 £696 £508
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.50
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £31.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +47.62%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,579 1,760 2,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 53.56% 54.68% 55.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 1,256 2,052
10th Percentile £206 £228 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £663
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 80 94
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.45 £10.68
25th Percentile £13.90 £14.20 £13.90
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +29.31%
75th Percentile £34.47 £43.25 £27.50
90th Percentile £52.12 £51.85 £35.00
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in the Midlands

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 2024. 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
West Midlands +5 5 £434 -3.67% 9
East Midlands - 5 £173 - 1
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (40.00%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) OCI
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Discord
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Insight Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Report Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Copywriter
3 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Copywriter
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Dask
1 1 (10.00%) Keras
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Handset
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (40.00%) Content Management
1 4 (40.00%) Copywriting
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) SEO
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Content Writing
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Physics
3 1 (10.00%) SDLC
3 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle