Publishing Contracts in England

Publishing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Publishing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 400 412
Rank change year-on-year +45 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Publishing 196 250 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the General category 0.91% 0.90% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 160 315
10th Percentile £275 £301 £281
25th Percentile £356 £407 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £608
90th Percentile £863 £664 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 8 12
10th Percentile £33.07 £17.46 £19.88
25th Percentile - £20.38 £24.44
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile - - £38.94
90th Percentile - £38.90 £48.35
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +22.86% +12.90% +63.16%

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 contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,502 27,813 40,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.33% 59.13% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,781 19,606 28,322
10th Percentile £281 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,827 910 1,280
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%
75th Percentile £52.64 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Publishing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Publishing in England

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Publishing in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Publishing in England

Publishing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -6 79 £530 +3.41% 59
East of England +58 65 £600 - 11
North of England +22 24 £500 - 16
North West +24 23 £500 +1.52% 12
Midlands +9 10 £268 -40.56% 9
South East +8 10 £413 +11.86% 18
South West 0 8 - - 3
West Midlands +5 5 £434 -3.67% 7
East Midlands - 5 £173 - 2
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 4
Publishing
UK

Publishing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (12.76%) SharePoint
2 23 (11.73%) CMS
3 7 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (3.57%) Drupal
4 6 (3.06%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (3.06%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.53%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.02%) Confluence
7 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.08%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (2.55%) Acrobat
6 4 (2.04%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (6.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.55%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (2.04%) Endur
3 4 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.02%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.51%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.27%) AWS
2 18 (9.18%) Azure
3 14 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.06%) Serverless
5 5 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.04%) OCI
6 4 (2.04%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 3 (1.53%) Figma
7 3 (1.53%) GCP
8 2 (1.02%) Bitrise
8 2 (1.02%) GitHub
8 2 (1.02%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.51%) Amplience
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.51%) Miro
9 1 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) DMZ
2 1 (0.51%) DNS
2 1 (0.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) Intranet
2 1 (0.51%) MPLS
2 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.73%) Metadata
2 14 (7.14%) Power BI
2 14 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.63%) Data Vault
3 13 (6.63%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.08%) Pentaho
5 8 (4.08%) Qlik Sense
5 8 (4.08%) QlikView
5 8 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (3.06%) PowerPivot
6 6 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.04%) Big Data
7 4 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.53%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.51%) MarkLogic
10 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.61%) JIRA
2 5 (2.55%) Git
3 4 (2.04%) ERwin
4 2 (1.02%) Appium
4 2 (1.02%) git-flow
4 2 (1.02%) XCTest
4 2 (1.02%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (15.82%) Finance
2 28 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.71%) Marketing
5 16 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.61%) Retail
7 7 (3.57%) Electronics
7 7 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.06%) Multimedia
9 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.04%) Front Office
10 4 (2.04%) Legal
10 4 (2.04%) Local Government
11 2 (1.02%) Advertising
11 2 (1.02%) Banking
11 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (32.65%) Author
1 64 (32.65%) Technical Author
2 22 (11.22%) Architect
3 17 (8.67%) Data Architect
4 16 (8.16%) Project Manager
5 12 (6.12%) Developer
6 9 (4.59%) Analyst
6 9 (4.59%) Digital Project Manager
7 8 (4.08%) Designer
7 8 (4.08%) Senior
8 6 (3.06%) SharePoint Engineer
9 5 (2.55%) Content Designer
9 5 (2.55%) Content Manager
9 5 (2.55%) Digital Content Manager
9 5 (2.55%) SAP Manager
10 4 (2.04%) Consultant
10 4 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (2.04%) Technical Illustrator
10 4 (2.04%) Web Producer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (33.16%) XML
2 64 (32.65%) SGML
3 13 (6.63%) HTML
4 12 (6.12%) CSS
5 6 (3.06%) .NET
6 5 (2.55%) React
7 4 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.04%) Kafka
7 4 (2.04%) REST
8 3 (1.53%) RESTful
9 2 (1.02%) JSON
9 2 (1.02%) Node.js
9 2 (1.02%) React Native
9 2 (1.02%) SwiftUI
9 2 (1.02%) UIKit
10 1 (0.51%) GeoJSON
10 1 (0.51%) Keras
10 1 (0.51%) PySpark
10 1 (0.51%) RxJS
10 1 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.67%) Reference Data
2 9 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.55%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.04%) Animation
5 4 (2.04%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (2.04%) Freedom of Information Act
5 4 (2.04%) Handset
5 4 (2.04%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.53%) Social Media
6 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.51%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.04%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.53%) Android
3 2 (1.02%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.69%) Desktop Publishing
2 35 (17.86%) Agile
3 25 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (11.22%) Data Modelling
5 21 (10.71%) Project Management
6 20 (10.20%) Content Management
7 17 (8.67%) Project Delivery
7 17 (8.67%) User Experience
8 15 (7.65%) Computer Science
8 15 (7.65%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (7.14%) Data Architecture
9 14 (7.14%) Data Lineage
10 13 (6.63%) SEO
10 13 (6.63%) UML
11 12 (6.12%) Change Management
11 12 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (5.61%) Decision-Making
12 11 (5.61%) E-Commerce
13 10 (5.10%) Analytics
13 10 (5.10%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.24%) SQL
2 12 (6.12%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.08%) T-SQL
4 5 (2.55%) Python
4 5 (2.55%) VBA
5 3 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.02%) C#
6 2 (1.02%) Java
6 2 (1.02%) Swift
7 1 (0.51%) C++
7 1 (0.51%) Go
7 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.51%) PHP
7 1 (0.51%) R
7 1 (0.51%) Scala
7 1 (0.51%) XPath
Qualifications
1 64 (32.65%) HNC
1 64 (32.65%) HND
2 29 (14.80%) Degree
3 25 (12.76%) Security Cleared
4 20 (10.20%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.53%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.53%) PhD
8 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.51%) PgMP
9 1 (0.51%) PMP
9 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.14%) QA
3 9 (4.59%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.08%) PMO
5 5 (2.55%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.02%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.51%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.06%) BitLocker
1 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.51%) Ansible
2 1 (0.51%) AppManager
2 1 (0.51%) Control-M
2 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) SAP
3 14 (7.14%) Oracle
4 13 (6.63%) Adobe
4 13 (6.63%) Sparx
5 9 (4.59%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.08%) Informatica
7 7 (3.57%) Tanium
7 7 (3.57%) VMware
7 7 (3.57%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.55%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.04%) Google
9 4 (2.04%) Hotjar
9 4 (2.04%) OpenLink
9 4 (2.04%) Screaming Frog
9 4 (2.04%) Trayport
10 2 (1.02%) Apple
10 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.51%) Cisco
11 1 (0.51%) Sybase