Video\Live Streaming Contract Job Trends

Video\Live Streaming
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video\Live Streaming in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Video\Live Streaming over the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 507 553
Rank change year-on-year -107 +46 +125
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 10 18 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.062% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.068% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 21
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £319 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% -9.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £534 £488 £600
90th Percentile £600 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +43.75% -33.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £45.95 - -
25th Percentile £48.50 - -
Median hourly rate £53.50 - £58.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile £61.85 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Video\Live Streaming 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 14,671 9,836 13,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.01% 33.85% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,209 6,303 8,577
10th Percentile £300 £292 £258
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £772 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 689 376 884
10th Percentile £15.70 £16.95 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.44 £15.39
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.42 £83.20 £67.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £25.50
% change year-on-year +43.14% +24.55% +15.91%

Video\Live Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Video\Live Streaming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Video\Live Streaming job vacancy trend in the UK

Video\Live Streaming
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video\Live Streaming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video\Live Streaming

Video\Live Streaming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Video\Live Streaming over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Video\Live Streaming in the UK

Video\Live Streaming
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video\Live Streaming.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video\Live Streaming

Video\Live Streaming
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Video\Live Streaming over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Video\Live Streaming in the UK

Video\Live Streaming
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video\Live Streaming within the UK over the 6 months to 28 March 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 -120 10 £375 -6.25% 19
London -50 7 £375 -19.27% 8
Work from Home -32 2 £575 +35.29% 7
UK excluding London -103 2 £575 +43.75% 12
South East -55 1 £575 +43.75% 4
South West - 1 - - 1

Video\Live Streaming
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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (10.00%) Akamai
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Android Studio
2 2 (20.00%) Xcode
3 1 (10.00%) Gradle
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) French Language
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) German Language
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Control Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) GStreamer
1 2 (20.00%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (10.00%) Core Media
2 1 (10.00%) FFmpeg
2 1 (10.00%) HEVC
2 1 (10.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Qt
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Spring WebFlux
2 1 (10.00%) WebRTC
2 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (10.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Media Streaming
1 2 (20.00%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (20.00%) Social Media
2 1 (10.00%) Animation
2 1 (10.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Android
1 3 (30.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Infographics
3 2 (20.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (20.00%) Post-Production
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) API Development
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Kotlin
1 3 (30.00%) Swift
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (10.00%) BrightScript
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
1 2 (20.00%) Sony
2 1 (10.00%) Roku
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce