Music Industry Contract Job Trends

Music Industry
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Music Industry in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Music Industry over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 549 568
Rank change year-on-year -108 +19 +84
Contract jobs citing Music Industry 2 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.024% 0.005%
As % of the General category 0.007% 0.038% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £246 £321
25th Percentile £281 £273 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +3.52% -23.68%
75th Percentile £294 £465 £384
90th Percentile - £513 £394
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All General Skills
UK

Music Industry falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 29,557 20,841 22,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.14% 63.36% 57.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,559 13,017 14,072
10th Percentile £313 £278 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,204 1,118 1,390
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £17.02
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +45.55% -41.92% +46.90%

Music Industry
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Music Industry job vacancy trend in the UK

Music Industry
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Music Industry

Music Industry
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Music Industry.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Music Industry

Music Industry
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Music Industry within the UK over the 6 months to 8 August 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 -77 2 £288 -23.38% 9
England -115 2 £288 -23.38% 15

Music Industry
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Looker
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Music Streaming
1 2 (100.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility