Publishing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Publishing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 91 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -52 - -
Contract jobs citing Publishing 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.24% 0.72% -
As % of the General category 0.37% 1.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £330 £275
% change year-on-year +21.21% +20.00% -

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 534 186 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.82% 67.15% 62.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 108 163
10th Percentile £325 £209 £368
25th Percentile £416 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £651 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £12.10 £12.05
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 £13.23
90th Percentile - £16.97 £27.94
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £14.45
% change year-on-year -5.33% +55.68% -23.93%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Publishing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Publishing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Publishing

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Publishing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Publishing

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 January 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
Sheffield -56 2 £571 - 1
Publishing
Yorkshire

Publishing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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