Video Editing Contract Job Trends in England

Video Editing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video Editing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Video Editing over the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 461 524
Rank change year-on-year -74 +63 +191
Contract jobs citing Video Editing 14 18 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.043% 0.068% 0.050%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 12
10th Percentile £203 £201 £201
25th Percentile £209 £230 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £292 £225
Median % change year-on-year +11.40% +29.67% -41.94%
75th Percentile £358 £345 £372
90th Percentile £500 £371 £483
UK median daily rate £325 £292 £225
% change year-on-year +11.40% +29.67% -18.18%

All Generic Skills
England

Video Editing 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 11,208 8,663 11,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.73% 32.75% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,157 5,204 7,808
10th Percentile £283 £270 £252
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 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 243 670
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% +8.37% +53.90%
75th Percentile £63.08 £67.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.09 £35.00 £33.36
% change year-on-year -19.74% +4.93% +48.59%

Video Editing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Video Editing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Video Editing job vacancy trend in England

Video Editing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Video Editing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Video Editing

Video Editing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Video Editing in England over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Video Editing in England

Video Editing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Video Editing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Video Editing

Video Editing
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 Video Editing within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 -11 6 £218 -0.23% 9
North West - 5 £358 -
North of England - 5 £358 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
South West -19 1 - - 2
Video Editing
UK

Video Editing
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (21.43%) Quicktime
3 2 (14.29%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (14.29%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (14.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (7.14%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (7.14%) Pro Tools
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Marketing
1 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Games
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Graphic Artist
1 2 (14.29%) Motion Graphics Artist
2 1 (7.14%) Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Designer
2 1 (7.14%) Instructional Designer
2 1 (7.14%) Post-Production Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Post-Production Support
2 1 (7.14%) Site Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Graphic Design
1 3 (21.43%) Learning Management System
2 2 (14.29%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 1 (7.14%) Life Science
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Storytelling
2 5 (35.71%) AI
2 5 (35.71%) Data Science
2 5 (35.71%) Generative AI
3 3 (21.43%) Content Development
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Content Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) B2B
5 1 (7.14%) B2C
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) Deadline-Driven
5 1 (7.14%) Instructional Design
5 1 (7.14%) SEO
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Adobe
2 2 (14.29%) YouTube
3 1 (7.14%) Google