Over-the-Top Content Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Over-the-Top Content in contract job vacancies in London. 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 379 351 382
Rank change year-on-year -28 +31 +143
Contract jobs citing Over-the-Top Content 1 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.007% 0.007% 0.045%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.018% 0.021% 0.13%
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 - - -5.66%
75th Percentile - - £522
90th Percentile - - £535
England median daily rate £300 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £58.00
England median hourly rate - - £58.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.14%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,442 4,773 5,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.00% 34.20% 33.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,531 3,019 4,239
10th Percentile £350 £325 £315
25th Percentile £433 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 61 124
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +19.66% +2.63%
75th Percentile £47.00 £60.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.90 £80.75 £64.86
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £37.95
% change year-on-year -22.80% -2.51% +51.81%

Over-the-Top Content
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Over-the-Top Content job vacancy trend in London

Over-the-Top Content
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Over-the-Top Content
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Over-the-Top Content
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
West London - 1 £300 - 10
Over-the-Top Content
England

Over-the-Top Content
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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