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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 529 608
Rank change year-on-year +38 +79 -226
Permanent jobs citing Publishing 198 407 433
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 67 274 252
10th Percentile £33,400 £29,600 £32,650
25th Percentile £53,750 £33,213 £44,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £45,210 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.56% -21.37% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,741 £76,563
90th Percentile £175,000 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -5.26% -19.15% +10.85%

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 34,738 58,777 72,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.32% 59.87% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,372 39,592 38,758
10th Percentile £28,013 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +24 186 £64,000 +34.74% 404
London +93 143 £70,000 +57.86% 310
Work from Home +104 99 £72,500 +52.63% 157
UK excluding London +33 45 £45,000 -5.26% 105
South East +82 26 £45,750 -15.13% 36
East of England +48 7 £32,500 -11.36% 27
South West +74 4 £50,000 +5.26% 15
Scotland +109 3 - - 5
Midlands +50 3 £45,000 +5.88% 6
North of England +30 3 £53,500 +1.46% 16
Yorkshire +61 2 £53,500 +25.88% 5
East Midlands +49 2 £45,000 -18.18% 1
West Midlands +54 1 - - 5
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 33 (16.67%) CMS
2 9 (4.55%) WordPress
3 8 (4.04%) Confluence
4 7 (3.54%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.52%) nginx
7 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.51%) Apache
8 1 (0.51%) Drupal
8 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.51%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.53%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.53%) Trello
4 4 (2.02%) InDesign
5 3 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.52%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.09%) AWS
1 18 (9.09%) Serverless
2 17 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
2 17 (8.59%) Google Analytics
3 13 (6.57%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 9 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (4.55%) GCP
6 3 (1.52%) Azure
6 3 (1.52%) Contentful
6 3 (1.52%) SaaS
7 2 (1.01%) Anthos
7 2 (1.01%) Canva
7 2 (1.01%) Figma
7 2 (1.01%) FinancialForce
7 2 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.01%) MinIO
7 2 (1.01%) Miro
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.02%) Intranet
2 3 (1.52%) Broadband
2 3 (1.52%) DNS
2 3 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.01%) Firewall
3 2 (1.01%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.57%) Power BI
2 11 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.04%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.04%) Tableau
4 7 (3.54%) Power Query
5 4 (2.02%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.52%) Metadata
6 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.51%) Looker
8 1 (0.51%) MySQL
8 1 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.51%) Redis
8 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (7.58%) JIRA
2 4 (2.02%) Git
3 2 (1.01%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.01%) Maven
3 2 (1.01%) Xcode
4 1 (0.51%) Ant
4 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.51%) RSpec
General
1 82 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 58 (29.29%) Marketing
3 30 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.65%) Finance
5 23 (11.62%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (9.60%) Health Technology
7 18 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (9.09%) Tech for Good
8 15 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (7.07%) Games
9 14 (7.07%) Legal
10 13 (6.57%) Advertising
11 11 (5.56%) iGaming
12 9 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (4.04%) Retail
14 7 (3.54%) Automotive
14 7 (3.54%) Banking
14 7 (3.54%) Law
15 6 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (15.66%) Lead
2 22 (11.11%) Developer
2 22 (11.11%) Senior
3 12 (6.06%) Analyst
3 12 (6.06%) Senior Developer
4 11 (5.56%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 11 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 9 (4.55%) Governance Manager
5 9 (4.55%) Information Governance Manager
5 9 (4.55%) Information Manager
5 9 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 8 (4.04%) Architect
6 8 (4.04%) Content Designer
6 8 (4.04%) Content Manager
6 8 (4.04%) Designer
6 8 (4.04%) Digital Executive
6 8 (4.04%) Python Developer
7 7 (3.54%) Commercial Analyst
7 7 (3.54%) Senior Manager
7 7 (3.54%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.09%) RESTful
2 14 (7.07%) HTML
3 13 (6.57%) CSS
3 13 (6.57%) React
4 11 (5.56%) REST
5 8 (4.04%) Swagger
6 6 (3.03%) XML
7 4 (2.02%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.02%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.52%) .NET
9 2 (1.01%) React Native
9 2 (1.01%) Spring
9 2 (1.01%) XSD
9 2 (1.01%) XSLT
10 1 (0.51%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (0.51%) Express.js
10 1 (0.51%) Laravel
10 1 (0.51%) Node.js
10 1 (0.51%) SignalR
10 1 (0.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.58%) Management Information System
3 14 (7.07%) Social Media
4 12 (6.06%) Robotics
5 11 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.56%) Sports Betting
6 10 (5.05%) Mobile Games
7 9 (4.55%) Blog
7 9 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
7 9 (4.55%) Freedom of Information Act
8 7 (3.54%) FMCG
8 7 (3.54%) Online Games
9 6 (3.03%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (3.03%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.53%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.02%) PMI
12 3 (1.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.52%) Android
1 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
1 3 (1.52%) Linux
2 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.51%) CentOS
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.34%) Agile
2 45 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (19.70%) Artificial Intelligence
4 38 (19.19%) Scrum
5 36 (18.18%) Analytics
5 36 (18.18%) B2B
6 35 (17.68%) B2B Sales
6 35 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (15.66%) User Stories
8 30 (15.15%) Project Management
9 28 (14.14%) Decision-Making
9 28 (14.14%) SEO
10 27 (13.64%) User Experience
11 25 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (12.12%) Content Management
13 23 (11.62%) Roadmaps
14 21 (10.61%) Strategic Thinking
15 20 (10.10%) Acceptance Criteria
15 20 (10.10%) Collaborative Working
15 20 (10.10%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.68%) Python
2 12 (6.06%) C++
2 12 (6.06%) MATLAB
2 12 (6.06%) TypeScript
3 8 (4.04%) Java
4 7 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.54%) SQL
5 4 (2.02%) C#
6 2 (1.01%) Swift
6 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.01%) XQuery
7 1 (0.51%) C
7 1 (0.51%) Perl
7 1 (0.51%) PHP
7 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.51%) Ruby
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) VB
7 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (17.17%) Degree
2 13 (6.57%) PhD
3 9 (4.55%) CISA
3 9 (4.55%) CISM
3 9 (4.55%) CISSP
3 9 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 5 (2.53%) CSPO
4 5 (2.53%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) MCP
6 1 (0.51%) MCSA
6 1 (0.51%) MCSE
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.51%) MRICS
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
6 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.66%) QA
2 15 (7.58%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 9 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 9 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) MiFID
4 1 (0.51%) NCSC
4 1 (0.51%) PMO
4 1 (0.51%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.02%) Argo
2 4 (2.02%) Kustomize
2 4 (2.02%) Terraform
3 2 (1.01%) Grafana
3 2 (1.01%) Istio
3 2 (1.01%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (12.12%) Google
2 16 (8.08%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.54%) Adobe
4 7 (3.54%) Ahrefs
4 7 (3.54%) Screaming Frog
4 7 (3.54%) Sitecore
5 6 (3.03%) BT
6 3 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.52%) VMware
7 2 (1.01%) Mercator
7 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.51%) comScore
8 1 (0.51%) McAfee
8 1 (0.51%) Progress
8 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.51%) SAP
8 1 (0.51%) Symantec