Sports Betting Contracts

Sports Betting
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Sports Betting in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sports Betting over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 560 659
Rank change year-on-year +13 +99 +156
Contract jobs citing Sports Betting 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.010% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.034% 0.034% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £283 £445 £476
25th Percentile £313 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £406 £625 £622
90th Percentile £418 £655 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 -
% change year-on-year -42.31% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Sports Betting 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 11,653 11,762 16,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 30.36% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,131 7,537 11,621
10th Percentile £305 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 594 407
10th Percentile £15.02 £12.32 £16.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.27 £20.63
Median hourly rate £29.33 £45.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -34.82% +11.59% +52.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.33 £45.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.82% +10.86% +88.79%

Sports Betting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sports Betting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sports Betting.

Daily rate trend for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sports Betting over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sports Betting.

Hourly rate trend for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sports Betting within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +23 4 £375 -42.31% 69
London - 3 £338 - 48
UK excluding London +2 1 £375 -42.31% 24
South East - 1 £375 - 6

Sports Betting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Games Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Product Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (25.00%) Eye Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (25.00%) Remote Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Typography
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI