Publishing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Publishing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -56 - -
Contract jobs citing Publishing 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.25% 0.82% -
As % of the General category 0.40% 1.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £571 - -

All General Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 503 169 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 63.11% 69.55% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 98 149
10th Percentile £324 £246 £398
25th Percentile £413 £441 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £555 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £651 £704
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -3.77% -2.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £12.10 -
25th Percentile - £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £14.85 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +16.43% -32.89%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £12.88
90th Percentile - £16.97 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 £14.85 £12.75
% change year-on-year -6.70% +16.43% -32.89%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Publishing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Publishing

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Publishing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Publishing

Publishing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Banking Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Banking Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) SLSA
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Attestation
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) SBOM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype