Brightcove Contract Job Trends

Brightcove
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Brightcove products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Brightcove over the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, 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 Brightcove, Inc.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 - 605
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Brightcove 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% - 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.011% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £287 - -
25th Percentile £289 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 - £250
75th Percentile £299 - -
90th Percentile £300 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £250

All Vendors
UK

Brightcove 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,911 14,349 19,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.97% 46.32% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,506 8,584 12,141
10th Percentile £300 £275 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -1.12%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 869 416 916
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.93
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £26.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +8.53% -16.50%
75th Percentile £56.69 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.04 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.74% +4.33% -5.45%

Brightcove
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Brightcove job vacancy trend in the UK

Brightcove
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Brightcove.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Brightcove

Brightcove
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Brightcove within the UK over the 6 months to 12 February 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
Work from Home - 2 £295 -
London - 1 £290 -
England - 1 £290 -

Brightcove
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) fastlane
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (50.00%) Dagger
1 1 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) OkHttp
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Retrofit
1 1 (50.00%) RxCocoa
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) RxSwift
1 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) Tealium