Publishing Contracts in the South West

Publishing
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in the South West. 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 108 145 150
Rank change year-on-year +37 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Publishing 3 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.38% 0.47%
As % of the General category 0.31% 0.73% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £252 - £356
25th Percentile £353 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £425 £519
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -18.07% +18.57%
75th Percentile £713 £438 £589
90th Percentile £818 - £630
England median daily rate £513 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +20.59% -17.07% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.60% +22.86% +12.90%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 961 1,651 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.27% 51.61% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 989 1,321
10th Percentile £218 £213 £275
25th Percentile £399 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £678 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 269 128
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.63 £37.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £87.58
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in the South West

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Publishing in the South West

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in the South West

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in the South West

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +16 1 £188 - 7
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 5
Somerset - 1 £875 - 2
Publishing
England

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Content Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Content Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital UX Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Head of AI
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Service Design
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Identification
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) MCP
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) McAfee
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec
1 1 (33.33%) VMware