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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 533 558
Rank change year-on-year -101 +25 +73
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 31 22 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.067% 0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 10 15
10th Percentile - £313 £370
25th Percentile £153 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £176 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -55.94% -11.11% -15.29%
75th Percentile £431 £525 £569
90th Percentile £513 £629 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £400 £525
% change year-on-year -60.00% -23.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £29.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 17,556 11,324 12,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.27% 34.65% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,740 6,998 8,033
10th Percentile £318 £300 £300
25th Percentile £417 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £672
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 543 732
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.17 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.25 £41.25
% change year-on-year +45.32% -26.67% -9.16%

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 24 July 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
Top 8 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 24 July 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 -102 30 £163 -59.38% 31
UK excluding London -96 19 £160 -60.00% 16
East of England - 15 £155 -
London -80 10 £338 -41.30% 17
Work from Home -51 6 £500 +25.00% 14
South East -64 2 £575 +43.75% 5
Midlands - 2 £450 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £450 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (6.45%) Serverless
2 2 (6.45%) Stripe
2 2 (6.45%) Vercel
3 1 (3.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Broadband
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) Multicast
1 1 (3.23%) VPN
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
1 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
2 2 (6.45%) Metadata
2 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (6.45%) Spark SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Android Studio
1 2 (6.45%) Claude Code
1 2 (6.45%) Xcode
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (41.94%) Telecoms
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Technical Support
2 12 (38.71%) Support Specialist
2 12 (38.71%) Technical Specialist
2 12 (38.71%) Technical Support Specialist
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Audio Visual Technician
4 3 (9.68%) Installation Technician
4 3 (9.68%) Support Technician
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Control Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) CRM Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.23%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) ONVIF
2 2 (6.45%) Next.js
2 2 (6.45%) PySpark
2 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
2 2 (6.45%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (6.45%) Yocto
3 1 (3.23%) Core Media
3 1 (3.23%) GStreamer
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Device Driver
1 2 (6.45%) Educational Technology
1 2 (6.45%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (6.45%) Social Media
2 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.23%) Animation
2 1 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Media Streaming
2 1 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Android
3 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.45%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Time Management
2 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (41.94%) Agile
3 13 (41.94%) CRM
4 5 (16.13%) Analytics
5 4 (12.90%) AI
5 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
5 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (6.45%) Business Analytics
7 2 (6.45%) Change Data Capture
7 2 (6.45%) Computer Vision
7 2 (6.45%) Decision-Making
7 2 (6.45%) High Availability
7 2 (6.45%) Personalization
7 2 (6.45%) Post-Production
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Java
1 3 (9.68%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) C
2 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.45%) Kotlin
2 2 (6.45%) Objective-C
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Swift
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) C++
3 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Degree
2 13 (41.94%) A+ Certification
2 13 (41.94%) CCNA
2 13 (41.94%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (41.94%) MCSA
2 13 (41.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
2 1 (3.23%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Adobe
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
2 2 (6.45%) Sony
3 1 (3.23%) Arista
3 1 (3.23%) NVIDIA
33 Video\Live Streaming jobs Nationwide