Publishing Contracts

Publishing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 433 402
Rank change year-on-year +50 -31 +54
Contract jobs citing Publishing 186 217 559
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.44% 0.65%
As % of the General category 0.83% 0.73% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 133 376
10th Percentile £350 £250 £351
25th Percentile £398 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -4.67% +10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £600
90th Percentile £731 £690 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £495
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +36.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 10 19
10th Percentile £31.25 £43.53 £16.00
25th Percentile - £48.76 £18.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £68.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.45% +175.00% +41.48%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £70.00
90th Percentile - £77.50 £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £56.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.89% +117.31% +62.50%

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 contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,291 29,553 50,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.06% 59.27% 58.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,341 20,008 34,792
10th Percentile £283 £304 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,089 1,088 1,252
10th Percentile £14.70 £13.97 £13.21
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.35 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +12.43% +28.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.39 £70.54 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +30.95% +20.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Publishing.

Daily rate trend for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Publishing.

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
England +47 168 £533 +6.60% 78
UK excluding London +100 113 £450 - 31
Work from Home +86 75 £475 -9.52% 48
East of England +86 67 £600 - 6
London -3 64 £560 +12.00% 47
North of England +49 30 £500 +11.11% 7
North West +34 25 £500 +11.11% 4
Scotland +36 9 £400 -30.43% 2
South East +15 6 £375 +7.14% 8
Yorkshire +20 5 £475 +26.67% 3
West Midlands +3 1 £550 -26.67% 3
Midlands +1 1 £550 -8.52% 4

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 18 (9.68%) CMS
2 8 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.76%) WordPress
4 6 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (2.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.23%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.54%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.54%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 4 (2.15%) Endur
3 3 (1.61%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 3 (1.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.08%) Shopify
5 1 (0.54%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.54%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.05%) AWS
2 18 (9.68%) Azure
3 7 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (3.76%) Serverless
4 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.15%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (2.15%) GitHub
5 4 (2.15%) Google Analytics
5 4 (2.15%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.61%) Figma
6 3 (1.61%) GCP
6 3 (1.61%) Yammer
7 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.08%) Canva
7 2 (1.08%) dbt
7 2 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.15%) Firewall
2 3 (1.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.69%) Metadata
2 4 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.15%) MySQL
2 4 (2.15%) Power BI
3 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.08%) MarkLogic
4 2 (1.08%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.54%) HBase
5 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.69%) JIRA
2 2 (1.08%) Git
2 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.54%) ERwin
3 1 (0.54%) MagicDraw
3 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (21.51%) Finance
2 33 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.60%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.53%) Marketing
5 12 (6.45%) Banking
6 10 (5.38%) Front Office
7 8 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.23%) Legal
9 3 (1.61%) Advertising
9 3 (1.61%) Local Government
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.61%) Retail
10 2 (1.08%) Games
10 2 (1.08%) Law
10 2 (1.08%) Military
11 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.54%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 69 (37.10%) Author
2 64 (34.41%) Technical Author
3 18 (9.68%) Developer
4 15 (8.06%) Analyst
5 12 (6.45%) Designer
6 11 (5.91%) Lead
7 8 (4.30%) Architect
7 8 (4.30%) Content Designer
7 8 (4.30%) Senior
8 7 (3.76%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Business Manager
9 6 (3.23%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Lead Business Analyst
10 5 (2.69%) Consultant
10 5 (2.69%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.69%) Senior Content Designer
10 5 (2.69%) Senior Designer
11 4 (2.15%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (2.15%) VBA Developer
12 3 (1.61%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (35.48%) XML
2 64 (34.41%) SGML
3 15 (8.06%) HTML
4 13 (6.99%) CSS
5 5 (2.69%) .NET
5 5 (2.69%) React
6 4 (2.15%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.15%) JSON
6 4 (2.15%) Kafka
6 4 (2.15%) RESTful
7 3 (1.61%) HTML5
7 3 (1.61%) Node.js
8 2 (1.08%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.08%) jQuery
8 2 (1.08%) Next.js
8 2 (1.08%) Sass
9 1 (0.54%) Cocoa Touch
9 1 (0.54%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.54%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.54%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.30%) Social Media
2 6 (3.23%) Derivative
2 6 (3.23%) Equities
2 6 (3.23%) Fixed Income
2 6 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (3.23%) Hedge funds
2 6 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.69%) Mobile Banking
3 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.15%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.61%) Photography
5 3 (1.61%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.08%) Clustering
6 2 (1.08%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.08%) Replication
7 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.54%) PMI
7 1 (0.54%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.61%) Windows
2 2 (1.08%) Linux
2 2 (1.08%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.95%) Desktop Publishing
2 39 (20.97%) Agile
3 21 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (10.75%) Analytics
4 20 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (9.68%) Change Management
6 17 (9.14%) Project Management
7 15 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (6.45%) Content Management
8 12 (6.45%) Content Strategy
8 12 (6.45%) Decision-Making
9 11 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (5.91%) Computer Science
10 10 (5.38%) Impact Assessments
11 9 (4.84%) Coaching
11 9 (4.84%) Machine Learning
11 9 (4.84%) Migration
11 9 (4.84%) Roadmaps
11 9 (4.84%) User Experience
11 9 (4.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.06%) SQL
2 12 (6.45%) Python
3 11 (5.91%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.15%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.15%) VBA
6 3 (1.61%) C++
6 3 (1.61%) Go
6 3 (1.61%) Java
6 3 (1.61%) PHP
7 1 (0.54%) C#
7 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.54%) R
7 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (34.41%) HNC
1 64 (34.41%) HND
2 21 (11.29%) Degree
3 5 (2.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.15%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.61%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.08%) PgMP
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.54%) PMP
7 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.83%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.76%) QA
4 4 (2.15%) PMO
4 4 (2.15%) WCAG
5 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (3.76%) BitLocker
2 3 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.15%) Terraform
3 2 (1.08%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.38%) Bloomberg
2 10 (5.38%) Tanium
3 9 (4.84%) Adobe
4 7 (3.76%) Zscaler
5 6 (3.23%) BISAM
6 5 (2.69%) Oracle
6 5 (2.69%) SAP
7 4 (2.15%) Google
7 4 (2.15%) OpenLink
7 4 (2.15%) Trayport
7 4 (2.15%) VMware
8 3 (1.61%) Cognos
8 3 (1.61%) IBM
9 2 (1.08%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.54%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.54%) HP
10 1 (0.54%) Optimizely