Publishing Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Publishing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Publishing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.88% - -
As % of the General category 1.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £436 - -
90th Percentile £443 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 -
% change year-on-year -5.67% - -

All General Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 113 223 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 50.00% 73.11% 60.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 204 123
10th Percentile £330 £270 £315
25th Percentile £393 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £393 £445
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% -11.80% -6.32%
75th Percentile £563 £450 £550
90th Percentile £633 £518 £619
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.01% -10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £13.71 £16.81 £27.73
25th Percentile £15.55 - £34.67
Median hourly rate £19.29 £21.39 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% -55.87% -4.95%
75th Percentile £42.00 - £54.73
90th Percentile £49.13 - £57.14
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.75 £23.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year -21.05% +39.71% -60.01%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Publishing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Publishing job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Publishing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Publishing

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Northampton - 2 £425 - 1
Publishing
East Midlands

Publishing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling