Publishing Contracts in the South East

Publishing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 193 205
Rank change year-on-year +42 +12 +28
Contract jobs citing Publishing 8 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.43% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 12
10th Percentile £294 £300 £325
25th Percentile £313 £353 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £458
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -9.84% +7.65%
75th Percentile - £428 £623
90th Percentile £508 £513 £699
England median daily rate £513 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +20.59% -17.07% +3.54%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,848 2,816 3,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 61.40% 50.67% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,546 2,305
10th Percentile £228 £205 £242
25th Percentile £389 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 327 167
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.93 £18.40
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%
75th Percentile £59.69 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.07 £72.98
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in the South East

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Publishing in the South East

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in the South East

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in the South East

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +49 8 £350 - 10
Berkshire +36 7 £350 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £850 - 8
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) Umbraco
2 1 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Query
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Content Editor
1 3 (37.50%) Web Content Editor
1 3 (37.50%) Web Editor
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Trainer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Babylonjs
2 1 (12.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) 3D Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Content Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) R
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
1 1 (12.50%) XMLA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Virgin Media
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Sitecore