Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 April 2018

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Publishing over the 6 months to 20 April 2018 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Publishing
England > West Midlands
6 months to
20 Apr 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 157 170 162
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing Publishing 24 14 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.50% 0.30% 0.62%
As % of the General category 1.86% 0.99% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 16
West Midlands median daily rate £325 £398 £338
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -18.24% +17.78% -14.56%
10th Percentile £298 £305 £270
90th Percentile £710 £486 £725
England median daily rate £450 £410 £415
% change year-on-year +9.76% -1.20% +6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
West Midlands median hourly rate - - -
England median hourly rate £17.47 £16.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +9.16% -39.05% +31.25%

Publishing is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
West Midlands
Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,289 1,410 1,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 27.02% 30.17% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 842 817
West Midlands median daily rate £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +3.13% +6.67%
10th Percentile £250 £251 £225
90th Percentile £588 £550 £575
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 64 54
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.00 £21.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +25.58% +7.50% -30.29%
10th Percentile £15.00 £11.33 £12.25
90th Percentile £42.75 £36.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £26.22 £25.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.76% +16.67%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Publishing as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in the West Midlands

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Publishing in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate trend for Publishing in the West Midlands

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Publishing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Publishing in the West Midlands

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Publishing in the West Midlands

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 April 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
Shropshire -5 10 £310 -6.69%
Birmingham - 5 £325 - 4
Coventry - 3 £363 -
Solihull - 1 £313 -
Publishing
England

For the 6 months to 20 April 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Publishing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region with a requirement for Publishing.

1 16 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (41.67%) Legal
3 7 (29.17%) SEO
3 7 (29.17%) Social Media
3 7 (29.17%) Web Application Development
4 3 (12.50%) SDLC
4 3 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (12.50%) Benchmarking
4 3 (12.50%) Web Usability
4 3 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (8.33%) Content Management
5 2 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) Project Management
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) User Experience
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Line Management
6 1 (4.17%) Decision-Making
6 1 (4.17%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (4.17%) A/B Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
6 1 (4.17%) PMO
6 1 (4.17%) IT Strategy
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (4.17%) Case Management
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) Gradle

Publishing
Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
1 1 (4.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) QlikView
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Android Studio
1 1 (4.17%) Git (software)
1 1 (4.17%) Gradle
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (41.67%) Legal
2 1 (4.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Content Designer
1 13 (54.17%) Designer
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Digital Content Designer
2 3 (12.50%) Digital Designer
3 2 (8.33%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Data Integration Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Deployment Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Junior
4 1 (4.17%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Management Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) PMO Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Procurement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Android SDK
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Social Media
2 2 (8.33%) User Experience
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (29.17%) SEO
2 7 (29.17%) Web Application Development
3 3 (12.50%) Benchmarking
3 3 (12.50%) Scrum
3 3 (12.50%) SDLC
3 3 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (12.50%) Web Usability
4 2 (8.33%) Content Management
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
4 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.17%) Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Android Development
5 1 (4.17%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.17%) Case Management
5 1 (4.17%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (4.17%) Data Transformation
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) C#
1 1 (4.17%) Java
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
1 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) PMO
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Citrix
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
2 1 (4.17%) VMware