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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 513 568
Rank change year-on-year -83 +55 +132
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 12 15 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.049% 0.073%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.086% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £281 £350 £199
25th Percentile £319 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £534 £484 £600
90th Percentile £600 £769 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £380 £600
% change year-on-year +51.32% -36.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £51.05 - £60.65
25th Percentile £61.25 - £64.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,900 10,219 13,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.54% 33.30% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,774 6,217 8,569
10th Percentile £280 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £408 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 653 324 818
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £31.65 £32.91 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +9.10% +34.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.45 £82.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -6.15% +1.20% +45.98%

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 26 February 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 26 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Video\Live Streaming in the UK

Video\Live Streaming
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 Video\Live Streaming within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 -93 12 £375 -6.25% 16
London -24 6 £375 -17.40% 6
UK excluding London -77 6 £575 +51.32% 13
Work from Home -15 4 £575 +35.29% 8
South West - 4 - -
South East -37 1 £575 +51.32% 8
East of England - 1 - - 3

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
1 2 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (8.33%) Akamai
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) GIS
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Xcode
3 1 (8.33%) Gradle
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Agriculture
2 1 (8.33%) Agrochemical
2 1 (8.33%) Electronics
2 1 (8.33%) French Language
2 1 (8.33%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) German Language
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Control Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Middleware
1 4 (33.33%) Qt
2 2 (16.67%) GStreamer
2 2 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (8.33%) Core Media
3 1 (8.33%) FFmpeg
3 1 (8.33%) HEVC
3 1 (8.33%) iOS SDK
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Spring WebFlux
3 1 (8.33%) WebRTC
3 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
3 1 (8.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Device Driver
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Media Streaming
1 1 (8.33%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Android
2 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) AI
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Android Development
5 1 (8.33%) API Development
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Time Series Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C++
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (25.00%) Swift
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Objective-C
4 1 (8.33%) BrightScript
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) R
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (8.33%) PhD
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Roku
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce