Podcast Contract Job Trends in London

Podcasts
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Podcast in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Podcast over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 346 397
Rank change year-on-year -37 +51 +139
Contract jobs citing Podcast 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.029% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.085% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £311 £180
25th Percentile £550 £328 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +65.52% -19.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £403 -
90th Percentile - £424 -
England median daily rate £563 £363 £450
% change year-on-year +55.17% -19.44% -11.07%

All Generic Skills
London

Podcast 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 5,607 4,725 6,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.86% 34.15% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,640 2,975 4,359
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 60 172
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.21 £19.86
Median hourly rate £27.71 £38.54 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +31.74% -16.43%
75th Percentile £53.44 £61.50 £47.90
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £66.58
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.65% +6.43% +55.66%

Podcast
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Podcast relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Podcast job vacancy trend in London

Podcast
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Podcast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Podcast

Podcast
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Podcast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Podcast

Podcast
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Ray
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL