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 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 517 566
Rank change year-on-year -50 +49 +148
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 12 17 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.053% 0.085%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.095% 0.17% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 22
10th Percentile £270 £360 £66
25th Percentile £281 £409 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £494 £463
Median % change year-on-year -39.24% +6.76% -15.91%
75th Percentile £469 £544 £600
90th Percentile £570 £662 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £513 £400
% change year-on-year +21.95% +28.13% -18.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £54.63 - £30.40
25th Percentile - - £48.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.25
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 12,617 10,279 13,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.38% 32.18% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,932 6,103 8,718
10th Percentile £280 £264 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -2.75% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 321 528
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.00 £15.85
25th Percentile £18.23 £23.00 £19.46
Median hourly rate £27.36 £33.54 £38.10
Median % change year-on-year -18.44% -11.96% +52.39%
75th Percentile £61.23 £64.75 £64.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £44.13
% change year-on-year -16.28% -26.35% +114.15%

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 9 January 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 9 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Video\Live Streaming in the UK

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 9 January 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 -52 12 £300 -35.41% 100
Work from Home -17 7 - - 86
UK excluding London -56 7 £625 +21.95% 68
London -10 5 £288 -38.11% 59
South West - 5 - - 9
Midlands -41 1 £625 +21.95% 2
East Midlands - 1 £625 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 15

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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Akamai
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) GIS
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
General
1 1 (8.33%) Advertising
1 1 (8.33%) Agriculture
1 1 (8.33%) Agrochemical
1 1 (8.33%) French Language
1 1 (8.33%) Games
1 1 (8.33%) German Language
1 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (8.33%) Marketing
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Workday Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Middleware
1 5 (41.67%) Qt
2 1 (8.33%) FFmpeg
2 1 (8.33%) GStreamer
2 1 (8.33%) HEVC
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Spring WebFlux
2 1 (8.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Media Streaming
2 1 (8.33%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Information Security
2 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) AI
4 2 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) API Development
5 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Workday