YouTube Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

YouTube
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of YouTube products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YouTube over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within YouTube, LLC.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 361 419
Rank change year-on-year +2 +58 +97
Contract jobs citing YouTube 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.033% 0.009%
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% 0.077% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £450 - £257
25th Percentile £488 £213 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £225 £269
Median % change year-on-year +144.44% -16.28% +7.50%
75th Percentile £569 £238 £283
90th Percentile £580 - £286
UK median daily rate £341 £225 £269
% change year-on-year +51.67% -16.28% -28.09%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

YouTube falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,343 7,828 9,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.75% 43.42% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,492 4,678 6,467
10th Percentile £219 £215 £206
25th Percentile £361 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 638 498
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.24 £14.63
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.22 £17.76
Median hourly rate £21.28 £27.50 £33.97
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.05% +71.48%
75th Percentile £43.25 £61.60 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £72.74
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.25 £40.41
% change year-on-year -10.97% -30.10% +83.69%

YouTube
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing YouTube as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for YouTube in the UK excluding London

YouTube
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YouTube.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YouTube

YouTube
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YouTube.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YouTube

YouTube
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YouTube within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 August 2025. 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
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 7
Midlands - 2 £500 - 13
South West - 1 £575 - 4
YouTube
UK

YouTube
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (33.33%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (33.33%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Motion Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Motion Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Social Media
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) Animation
3 1 (33.33%) Blog
3 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (33.33%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Content Management
1 2 (66.67%) Social Media Management
1 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
1 2 (66.67%) Web Usability
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Email Management
2 1 (33.33%) Presales
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) Typography
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
1 2 (66.67%) Facebook
1 2 (66.67%) Instagram
1 2 (66.67%) Twitter
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Genesys