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 have cited Publishing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 427 410
Rank change year-on-year +70 -17 -14
Contract jobs citing Publishing 229 275 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the General category 0.93% 0.84% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 175 399
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +16.75%
75th Percentile £585 £597 £600
90th Percentile £815 £670 £652
UK excluding London median daily rate £355 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -25.26% +5.56% +25.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 11 13
10th Percentile £36.25 £17.75 £19.43
25th Percentile - £19.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +63.16%
75th Percentile - - £37.00
90th Percentile - - £47.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +102.28%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Publishing in the UK

Publishing
Top 14 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 1 June 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 +39 193 £425 -15.00% 143
UK excluding London +91 139 £355 -25.26% 80
Work from Home +100 103 £425 -15.59% 64
London +11 79 £521 -0.76% 64
East of England +56 66 £400 -30.43% 13
Scotland +50 25 £350 -6.67% 5
North of England +19 17 £391 -21.80% 30
North West +21 16 £391 -19.38% 23
South West +7 11 - - 5
Midlands +14 10 £268 -40.56% 10
South East +6 10 £413 -7.04% 17
West Midlands +1 5 £434 -3.67% 8
East Midlands - 5 £173 - 2
Yorkshire +18 1 - - 7

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 37 (16.16%) SharePoint
2 30 (13.10%) CMS
3 7 (3.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (2.62%) Drupal
4 6 (2.62%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (2.62%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.31%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.87%) Confluence
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.44%) Moodle
7 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 26 (11.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (9.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (3.49%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.18%) Acrobat
6 4 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.87%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.44%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.44%) Blender
8 1 (0.44%) InDesign
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (5.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.18%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.87%) Endur
4 2 (0.87%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.44%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.73%) AWS
2 16 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.11%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.24%) Azure
4 12 (5.24%) Yammer
5 5 (2.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Figma
6 4 (1.75%) GCP
6 4 (1.75%) OCI
6 4 (1.75%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Serverless
7 3 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.31%) GitHub
8 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.87%) Bitrise
9 1 (0.44%) Amplience
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.44%) DMZ
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
2 1 (0.44%) Intranet
2 1 (0.44%) MPLS
2 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.79%) Metadata
2 15 (6.55%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.11%) Power BI
4 13 (5.68%) Data Vault
4 13 (5.68%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.49%) Pentaho
6 8 (3.49%) Qlik Sense
6 8 (3.49%) QlikView
6 8 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Power View
7 6 (2.62%) PowerPivot
7 6 (2.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.75%) Big Data
9 4 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.31%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.44%) MarkLogic
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.80%) JIRA
2 6 (2.62%) Git
3 4 (1.75%) ERwin
4 2 (0.87%) Appium
4 2 (0.87%) git-flow
4 2 (0.87%) XCTest
4 2 (0.87%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.03%) Finance
2 39 (17.03%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.48%) Marketing
4 19 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.68%) Retail
6 9 (3.93%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.06%) Electronics
8 7 (3.06%) Multimedia
8 7 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.62%) Legal
10 5 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.75%) Advertising
12 3 (1.31%) Local Government
12 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 2 (0.87%) French Language
13 2 (0.87%) German Language
Job Titles
1 64 (27.95%) Author
1 64 (27.95%) Technical Author
2 22 (9.61%) Analyst
3 21 (9.17%) Architect
3 21 (9.17%) Designer
4 17 (7.42%) Content Designer
4 17 (7.42%) Data Architect
4 17 (7.42%) Project Manager
5 15 (6.55%) Senior
6 12 (5.24%) Change Analyst
7 11 (4.80%) Developer
8 8 (3.49%) Digital Project Manager
9 7 (3.06%) Consultant
9 7 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.62%) SharePoint Engineer
11 5 (2.18%) Content Manager
11 5 (2.18%) Digital Content Manager
11 5 (2.18%) SAP Manager
11 5 (2.18%) Senior Content Designer
11 5 (2.18%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (30.13%) XML
2 64 (27.95%) SGML
3 19 (8.30%) HTML
4 18 (7.86%) CSS
5 5 (2.18%) React
6 4 (1.75%) .NET
6 4 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.31%) REST
7 3 (1.31%) RESTful
8 2 (0.87%) HTML5
8 2 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.87%) JSON
8 2 (0.87%) Kafka
8 2 (0.87%) Node.js
8 2 (0.87%) Pandas
8 2 (0.87%) React Native
8 2 (0.87%) SwiftUI
8 2 (0.87%) UIKit
9 1 (0.44%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.42%) Reference Data
2 10 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.18%) Animation
5 5 (2.18%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (1.75%) Freedom of Information Act
6 4 (1.75%) Handset
7 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.31%) Social Media
7 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.87%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.87%) Photography
8 2 (0.87%) Podcast
9 1 (0.44%) Blog
9 1 (0.44%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.44%) Interactive Media
9 1 (0.44%) Life Science
9 1 (0.44%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.75%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.31%) Android
3 2 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.69%) Desktop Publishing
2 52 (22.71%) Agile
3 29 (12.66%) Content Management
4 27 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (11.79%) Project Management
5 23 (10.04%) Data Modelling
5 23 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (8.73%) User Experience
7 17 (7.42%) Change Management
8 16 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (6.99%) Project Delivery
9 15 (6.55%) Data Architecture
10 14 (6.11%) Coaching
10 14 (6.11%) Data Lineage
10 14 (6.11%) SEO
11 13 (5.68%) UML
12 12 (5.24%) Analytics
12 12 (5.24%) Infographics
12 12 (5.24%) Migration
13 11 (4.80%) Content Strategy
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.66%) SQL
2 15 (6.55%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.49%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.18%) Python
6 3 (1.31%) C#
6 3 (1.31%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.31%) VBA
7 2 (0.87%) Swift
8 1 (0.44%) COBOL
8 1 (0.44%) DCL
8 1 (0.44%) Java
8 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.44%) PHP
8 1 (0.44%) R
8 1 (0.44%) Scala
8 1 (0.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 64 (27.95%) HNC
1 64 (27.95%) HND
2 26 (11.35%) Degree
2 26 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.18%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.31%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.31%) PhD
5 3 (1.31%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.87%) PMP
6 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.48%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.68%) QA
3 10 (4.37%) PMO
4 9 (3.93%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.18%) ISO 9001
5 5 (2.18%) WCAG
6 2 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.87%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.87%) Docker
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.44%) Ansible
2 1 (0.44%) AppManager
2 1 (0.44%) Control-M
2 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.55%) Adobe
2 15 (6.55%) Oracle
2 15 (6.55%) SAP
3 13 (5.68%) Sparx
4 8 (3.49%) Informatica
4 8 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.06%) VMware
6 4 (1.75%) Hotjar
6 4 (1.75%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (1.31%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.31%) Google
8 2 (0.87%) Apple
8 2 (0.87%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.87%) Trayport
9 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.44%) Marketo
9 1 (0.44%) Meraki
9 1 (0.44%) Twitter