Publishing Jobs

Publishing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 495 527 596
Rank change year-on-year +32 +69 -214
Permanent jobs citing Publishing 199 406 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.69% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 68 273 251
10th Percentile £32,350 £29,400 £34,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £33,213 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £45,210 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.56% -24.65% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £60,741 £77,500
90th Percentile £175,000 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% +12.97%

All General Skills
UK

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,150 58,962 71,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.54% 59.87% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 18,382 39,636 38,356
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Publishing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Publishing.

Salary trend for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Publishing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +25 185 £64,000 +34.74% 260
London +87 140 £70,000 +57.86% 185
Work from Home +138 99 £65,000 +36.84% 120
UK excluding London +29 47 £45,000 -5.26% 99
South East +81 27 £45,750 -15.13% 41
East of England +42 8 £32,500 -11.36% 24
South West +64 4 £50,000 +5.26% 10
Scotland +107 3 - - 5
Midlands +60 3 £45,000 +5.88% 4
North of England +37 3 £53,500 +1.46% 13
Yorkshire +65 2 £53,500 +25.88% 2
East Midlands +42 2 £45,000 -18.18% 1
West Midlands +36 1 - - 3
North West +3 1 - - 9

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (17.59%) CMS
2 9 (4.52%) WordPress
3 7 (3.52%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (3.02%) Confluence
5 4 (2.01%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.01%) nginx
6 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.50%) Drupal
7 1 (0.50%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.50%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (11.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.51%) Trello
5 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.01%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.51%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.51%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (1.51%) InDesign
7 2 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.05%) Serverless
2 19 (9.55%) AWS
2 19 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (8.54%) Google Analytics
4 13 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.53%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (4.02%) GCP
8 3 (1.51%) Contentful
8 3 (1.51%) SaaS
9 2 (1.01%) Anthos
9 2 (1.01%) Azure
9 2 (1.01%) Canva
9 2 (1.01%) Figma
9 2 (1.01%) FinancialForce
9 2 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.01%) MinIO
9 2 (1.01%) Miro
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.50%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.01%) Intranet
2 3 (1.51%) Broadband
2 3 (1.51%) DNS
2 3 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.01%) Firewall
3 2 (1.01%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.53%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (6.53%) Power BI
2 10 (5.03%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.02%) Tableau
4 7 (3.52%) Power Query
5 4 (2.01%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.51%) Metadata
6 3 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) Looker
8 1 (0.50%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.50%) Redis
8 1 (0.50%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (6.53%) JIRA
2 4 (2.01%) Git
3 2 (1.01%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.01%) Maven
3 2 (1.01%) Xcode
4 1 (0.50%) Ant
4 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.50%) RSpec
General
1 80 (40.20%) Social Skills
2 61 (30.65%) Marketing
3 29 (14.57%) Finance
4 28 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.56%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (10.05%) Health Technology
7 19 (9.55%) Tech for Good
8 18 (9.05%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (7.54%) Legal
10 14 (7.04%) Games
11 13 (6.53%) Advertising
12 11 (5.53%) iGaming
13 9 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (4.52%) Retail
14 8 (4.02%) Banking
15 7 (3.52%) Automotive
15 7 (3.52%) Law
15 7 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (3.02%) French Language
Job Titles
1 33 (16.58%) Lead
2 23 (11.56%) Developer
2 23 (11.56%) Senior
3 13 (6.53%) Senior Developer
4 12 (6.03%) Analyst
5 11 (5.53%) Product Owner
6 10 (5.03%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 10 (5.03%) Software Developer
7 9 (4.52%) Governance Manager
7 9 (4.52%) Information Governance Manager
7 9 (4.52%) Information Manager
7 9 (4.52%) Python Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Architect
8 8 (4.02%) Content Designer
8 8 (4.02%) Content Manager
8 8 (4.02%) Designer
8 8 (4.02%) Digital Executive
9 7 (3.52%) Commercial Analyst
9 7 (3.52%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (3.52%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.05%) RESTful
2 14 (7.04%) HTML
2 14 (7.04%) React
3 13 (6.53%) CSS
4 10 (5.03%) REST
4 10 (5.03%) Swagger
5 5 (2.51%) XML
6 4 (2.01%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.51%) .NET
7 3 (1.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.01%) React Native
8 2 (1.01%) Spring
8 2 (1.01%) XSD
8 2 (1.01%) XSLT
9 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.50%) Laravel
9 1 (0.50%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.50%) SignalR
9 1 (0.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.05%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.04%) Management Information System
3 15 (7.54%) Social Media
4 12 (6.03%) Robotics
5 11 (5.53%) Sports Betting
6 10 (5.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (5.03%) Mobile Games
7 9 (4.52%) Blog
7 9 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (4.52%) Freedom of Information
7 9 (4.52%) Freedom of Information Act
8 7 (3.52%) FMCG
8 7 (3.52%) Online Games
9 6 (3.02%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.02%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.51%) Life Science
12 3 (1.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.51%) Android
1 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.01%) Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.17%) Agile
2 45 (22.61%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (19.60%) Artificial Intelligence
3 39 (19.60%) Scrum
4 38 (19.10%) Analytics
5 36 (18.09%) B2B
6 35 (17.59%) B2B Sales
7 33 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (15.58%) User Stories
9 29 (14.57%) SEO
10 28 (14.07%) Decision-Making
10 28 (14.07%) Project Management
10 28 (14.07%) User Experience
11 24 (12.06%) Content Management
11 24 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (11.06%) Roadmaps
13 21 (10.55%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (10.55%) Continuous Delivery
14 20 (10.05%) Acceptance Criteria
14 20 (10.05%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.09%) Python
2 14 (7.04%) TypeScript
3 12 (6.03%) C++
3 12 (6.03%) MATLAB
4 7 (3.52%) Java
4 7 (3.52%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.52%) SQL
5 4 (2.01%) C#
6 2 (1.01%) Swift
6 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.01%) XQuery
7 1 (0.50%) PHP
7 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.50%) Ruby
7 1 (0.50%) VB
7 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (18.09%) Degree
2 13 (6.53%) PhD
3 9 (4.52%) CISA
3 9 (4.52%) CISM
3 9 (4.52%) CISSP
3 9 (4.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 5 (2.51%) CSPO
5 4 (2.01%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) MCP
7 1 (0.50%) MCSA
7 1 (0.50%) MCSE
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) MRICS
7 1 (0.50%) PMP
7 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.09%) QA
2 15 (7.54%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 9 (4.52%) HIPAA
3 9 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) MiFID
4 1 (0.50%) NCSC
4 1 (0.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.01%) Docker
2 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.01%) Argo
2 4 (2.01%) Kustomize
2 4 (2.01%) Terraform
3 2 (1.01%) Grafana
3 2 (1.01%) Istio
3 2 (1.01%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (12.06%) Google
2 16 (8.04%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.53%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.52%) Ahrefs
4 7 (3.52%) Screaming Frog
4 7 (3.52%) Sitecore
5 6 (3.02%) Adobe
5 6 (3.02%) BT
6 3 (1.51%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.51%) VMware
7 2 (1.01%) Mercator
7 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.50%) comScore
8 1 (0.50%) McAfee
8 1 (0.50%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.50%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) Symantec
8 1 (0.50%) Vermilion