Spotify Contracts

Spotify
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Spotify products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spotify over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 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 Spotify.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 583 683
Rank change year-on-year +55 +100 +157
Contract jobs citing Spotify 10 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.022% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £294 £471 £466
25th Percentile £308 £570 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% +33.33% -14.85%
75th Percentile £505 £675 £497
90th Percentile £663 - £499
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 - -

All Vendors
UK

Spotify 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 14,528 18,576 24,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 42.77% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,887 11,518 16,111
10th Percentile £281 £270 £270
25th Percentile £401 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 693 1,170 644
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.28 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.84 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +84.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £59.85 £63.06
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.56 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.95% -24.80% +53.85%

Spotify
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spotify in the UK

Spotify
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spotify in the UK

Spotify
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spotify over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spotify in the UK

Spotify
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spotify within the UK over the 6 months to 29 June 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 +58 7 £469 -27.88% 87
UK excluding London - 6 £315 - 20
London +56 4 £463 -28.85% 73
Scotland - 3 £315 -
South East - 2 - - 13
East of England - 1 £775 - 5

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
1 2 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Coach
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Budget Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Science
3 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (20.00%) A/B Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Coaching
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Spotify Model
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (20.00%) Statistics
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (20.00%) R
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Citrix
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) TikTok