Publishing Job Trends in England

Publishing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 449 462
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 +90
Permanent jobs citing Publishing 145 233 306
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.77% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 88 88 235
10th Percentile £36,955 £40,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,125 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +24.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,000 £76,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,250 £89,000
UK median annual salary £60,100 £62,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.06% +24.00% -9.09%

All General Skills
England

Publishing falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 33,511 30,276 40,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 56.66% 67.69% 60.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18,744 13,938 30,639
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.52% +9.09% -10.57%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Publishing job vacancy trend in England

Publishing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Publishing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Publishing

Publishing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the England region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -46 84 £62,500 -13.79% 30
East of England +25 24 £97,500 +85.71% 5
South East -7 12 £87,500 +75.00% 26
North of England +1 7 £31,500 -16.00% 6
North West +15 4 - - 4
Midlands +8 3 - - 5
South West -14 3 - - 8
East Midlands -15 3 - -
North East -8 2 £31,500 +0.80% 1
Yorkshire -29 1 - - 2
Publishing
UK

Publishing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (6.21%) CMS
2 8 (5.52%) WordPress
3 4 (2.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.69%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.38%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.38%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.38%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.69%) InDesign
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) Notion
4 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (6.90%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.69%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.83%) AWS
2 20 (13.79%) Serverless
3 18 (12.41%) Power Platform
4 17 (11.72%) Azure
5 16 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (9.66%) Amazon S3
6 14 (9.66%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (6.21%) SaaS
8 6 (4.14%) Canva
9 5 (3.45%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.07%) Collibra
10 3 (2.07%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.38%) GCP
11 2 (1.38%) Google Play
11 2 (1.38%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.38%) TestFlight
12 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.69%) GitHub
12 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.69%) Internet
2 1 (0.69%) Intranet
2 1 (0.69%) SSH
2 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.79%) Tableau
2 18 (12.41%) Power BI
3 7 (4.83%) Metadata
4 6 (4.14%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.07%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.07%) SAP BW
5 3 (2.07%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.38%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.38%) GIS
6 2 (1.38%) Looker
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.69%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) JIRA
2 4 (2.76%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) ERwin
3 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.07%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.38%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.38%) CMake
4 2 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.38%) Xcode
5 1 (0.69%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 79 (54.48%) Social Skills
2 52 (35.86%) Marketing
3 40 (27.59%) Finance
4 34 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (15.17%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (12.41%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (11.72%) Health Technology
7 17 (11.72%) Retail
7 17 (11.72%) Tech for Good
8 14 (9.66%) Legal
9 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
10 9 (6.21%) Automotive
11 7 (4.83%) Financial Institution
11 7 (4.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (4.14%) Banking
12 6 (4.14%) Billing
12 6 (4.14%) Digital Economy
13 5 (3.45%) Advertising
13 5 (3.45%) Law
14 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (16.55%) Developer
2 22 (15.17%) Analyst
2 22 (15.17%) Lead
3 20 (13.79%) Senior
4 18 (12.41%) Python Developer
5 16 (11.03%) AWS Developer
5 16 (11.03%) React Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Architect
6 15 (10.34%) Lead Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Lead Python Developer
7 13 (8.97%) Enterprise Architect
8 11 (7.59%) ERP Architect
8 11 (7.59%) SAP Architect
8 11 (7.59%) SAP Enterprise Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Commercial Analyst
9 10 (6.90%) Commercial Data Analyst
9 10 (6.90%) Data Analyst
9 10 (6.90%) Data Scientist
10 9 (6.21%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) RESTful
2 8 (5.52%) .NET
3 6 (4.14%) CSS
3 6 (4.14%) HTML
4 3 (2.07%) React
5 2 (1.38%) Google Maps API
5 2 (1.38%) JSON
5 2 (1.38%) Node.js
5 2 (1.38%) OpenGL
5 2 (1.38%) OpenSceneGraph
5 2 (1.38%) QML
5 2 (1.38%) Qt
5 2 (1.38%) Qt Quick
5 2 (1.38%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.38%) Swagger
5 2 (1.38%) Vulkan
5 2 (1.38%) XML
6 1 (0.69%) HTML5
6 1 (0.69%) JSR 170
6 1 (0.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) FMCG
2 15 (10.34%) Social Media
3 14 (9.66%) Podcast
4 11 (7.59%) Data Structures
5 10 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (6.21%) Blog
7 8 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.14%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.45%) Cloud Native
9 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
9 5 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (3.45%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.76%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.38%) 3D Graphics
12 2 (1.38%) Digital Media
12 2 (1.38%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Mac OS
2 4 (2.76%) Linux
2 4 (2.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.07%) Android
3 3 (2.07%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.28%) Agile
2 35 (24.14%) Analytics
3 33 (22.76%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (19.31%) B2B
5 26 (17.93%) Mentoring
6 25 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 24 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (15.17%) Project Management
9 21 (14.48%) CI/CD
10 20 (13.79%) Scrum
10 20 (13.79%) User Stories
11 18 (12.41%) Process Improvement
11 18 (12.41%) Storytelling
12 16 (11.03%) AI
12 16 (11.03%) Business Strategy
12 16 (11.03%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (11.03%) Operational Stability
12 16 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.03%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.38%) Python
2 24 (16.55%) SQL
3 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.76%) Java
5 3 (2.07%) C++
6 2 (1.38%) Bash
6 2 (1.38%) C
6 2 (1.38%) Objective-C
6 2 (1.38%) Ruby
6 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.69%) C#
7 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (24.83%) Degree
2 11 (7.59%) AWS Certification
2 11 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 11 (7.59%) TOGAF Certification
3 10 (6.90%) ACCA
3 10 (6.90%) CIMA
4 6 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.76%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.07%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.07%) PMP
7 3 (2.07%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.38%) HNC
8 2 (1.38%) HND
9 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) MRICS
9 1 (0.69%) PhD
9 1 (0.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.03%) QA
2 7 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) Section 508
4 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Ansible
1 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.69%) Puppet
1 1 (0.69%) Rancher
1 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (17.24%) SAP
2 13 (8.97%) Workday
3 12 (8.28%) Salesforce
4 10 (6.90%) Google
5 6 (4.14%) IBM
5 6 (4.14%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.76%) Adobe
7 3 (2.07%) Apple
8 2 (1.38%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.38%) Avid
8 2 (1.38%) ESRI
8 2 (1.38%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.38%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.69%) dotdigital
9 1 (0.69%) Instagram
9 1 (0.69%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.69%) Spotify
9 1 (0.69%) TikTok
9 1 (0.69%) UiPath