Over-the-Top Content Contract Job Trends in England

Over-the-Top Media Services (OTT)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Over-the-Top Content in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Over-the-Top Content over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 484 541
Rank change year-on-year -60 +57 +137
Contract jobs citing Over-the-Top Content 1 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% 0.004% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.009% 0.011% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.52%
75th Percentile - - £522
90th Percentile - - £535
UK median daily rate £300 - £488
% change year-on-year - - -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £58.00
UK median hourly rate - - £58.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.14%

All Generic Skills
England

Over-the-Top Content falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,066 8,725 11,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.58% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,023 5,249 7,614
10th Percentile £283 £275 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £549
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.91% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 253 512
10th Percentile £14.86 £17.30 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.99
Median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £37.95
Median % change year-on-year -22.80% -2.51% +51.81%
75th Percentile £61.55 £67.02 £64.65
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.12% -9.33% +50.00%

Over-the-Top Content
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Over-the-Top Content relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Over-the-Top Content job vacancy trend in England

Over-the-Top Content
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Over-the-Top Content.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Over-the-Top Content

Over-the-Top Content
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Over-the-Top Content.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Over-the-Top Content

Over-the-Top Content
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 Over-the-Top Content within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -28 1 £300 - 43
Over-the-Top Content
UK

Over-the-Top Content
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DRM
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes