Podcast Contract Job Trends

Podcasts
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Podcast in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Podcast over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 513 591
Rank change year-on-year -71 +78 +166
Contract jobs citing Podcast 6 17 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.054% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.17% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £516 - £180
25th Percentile £522 - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -33.33% -10.54%
75th Percentile £622 £369 -
90th Percentile £639 £410 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -
75th Percentile £27.50 £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,108 10,229 13,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 32.57% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,288 6,072 9,003
10th Percentile £275 £263 £255
25th Percentile £403 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £769 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 621 310 779
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.28 £23.89 £17.17
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% - +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.10 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.90 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.52 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.32% -8.45% +69.33%

Podcast
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Podcast job vacancy trend in the UK

Podcast
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Podcast
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Podcast

Podcast
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Podcast within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -60 5 £563 +55.17% 14
UK excluding London -66 3 £525 - 8
South East -17 2 - - 1
London -34 2 £600 +65.52% 5
Work from Home -5 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
Midlands - 1 £525 - 1

Podcast
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 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) dbt
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Content Marketing Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Social Media Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Ray
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Social Media
2 2 (33.33%) Blog
2 2 (33.33%) Educational Technology
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Content Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Content Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Generation
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) SEO
2 2 (33.33%) Storytelling
2 2 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Content Development
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Personalization
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) YouTube
2 1 (16.67%) Instagram
2 1 (16.67%) TikTok