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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 518 555
Rank change year-on-year -64 +37 +147
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 13 16 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.051% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.099% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 22
10th Percentile £274 £360 £66
25th Percentile £291 £394 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £600
90th Percentile £623 - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +21.95% -14.58% +21.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £54.45 - £60.65
25th Percentile £63.13 - £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 13,125 10,246 13,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.10% 32.55% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,288 6,069 8,796
10th Percentile £275 £263 £255
25th Percentile £405 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -3.60%
75th Percentile £625 £657 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 624 310 734
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.45 £23.65 £17.29
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% - +55.66%
75th Percentile £62.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.90 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -8.45% +71.46%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -74 13 £438 -5.81% 160
UK excluding London -61 8 £625 +21.95% 125
Work from Home -7 6 - - 151
South West - 6 - - 27
London -25 5 £300 -35.41% 97
Midlands -57 1 £625 +21.95% 10
East Midlands - 1 £625 - 9
East of England - 1 - - 30

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 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Akamai
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) GIS
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Android Studio
1 1 (7.69%) Gradle
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
2 1 (7.69%) Agriculture
2 1 (7.69%) Agrochemical
2 1 (7.69%) French Language
2 1 (7.69%) Games
2 1 (7.69%) German Language
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Android Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Middleware
1 6 (46.15%) Qt
2 1 (7.69%) FFmpeg
2 1 (7.69%) GStreamer
2 1 (7.69%) HEVC
2 1 (7.69%) iOS SDK
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Spring WebFlux
2 1 (7.69%) WebRTC
2 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) IoT
1 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) Media Streaming
1 1 (7.69%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Android
3 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
1 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) AI
3 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
4 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.69%) Data Science
4 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
4 1 (7.69%) Observability
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) BrightScript
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) R
2 1 (7.69%) Swift
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PhD
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks
1 1 (7.69%) Roku
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
1 1 (7.69%) SAP
1 1 (7.69%) Workday