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 14 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	680	544	541
Rank change year-on-year	-136	-3	+59
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming	24	21	15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.043%	0.059%	0.041%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.12%	0.16%	0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	17	3	10
10^th Percentile	-	£314	£340
25^th Percentile	£153	£391	£392
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£163	£538	£513
Median % change year-on-year	-69.77%	+4.88%	+2.50%
75^th Percentile	£375	£597	£567
90^th Percentile	£535	£621	£682
UK excluding London median daily rate	£155	£625	£513
% change year-on-year	-75.20%	+21.95%	+2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	11	0
Median hourly rate	-	£65.00	-
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 citing generic IT skills.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	20,097	12,729	11,350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	35.98%	35.82%	30.93%
Number of daily rates quoted	12,008	7,867	6,701
10^th Percentile	£320	£276	£285
25^th Percentile	£420	£406	£409
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£511	£526
Median % change year-on-year	+2.74%	-2.85%	-4.36%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£660
90^th Percentile	£738	£750	£788
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,558	690	365
10^th Percentile	£13.73	£13.50	£17.08
25^th Percentile	£17.50	£17.98	£22.50
Median hourly rate	£36.00	£27.00	£37.50
Median % change year-on-year	+33.33%	-28.00%	-14.45%
75^th Percentile	£68.75	£51.19	£68.75
90^th Percentile	£85.40	£72.50	£75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£35.00	£26.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+32.08%	-33.75%	-13.38%

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 Daily Rate Trend

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 14 November 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.

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 14 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-106	24	£163	-69.77%	135
UK excluding London	-93	14	£155	-75.20%	57
East of England	-14	10	£155	-	4
London	-97	10	£325	+18.18%	79
Work from Home	-72	7	£600	-	60
South East	-	4	-	-	10

Video\Live Streaming Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Video\Live Streaming also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing Video\Live Streaming.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Degree	45.8%	11
1	Time Management	45.8%	11
3	Problem-Solving	41.7%	10
4	Agile	37.5%	9
5	A+ Certification	33.3%	8
5	AI	33.3%	8
5	CCNA	33.3%	8
5	Cisco Certification	33.3%	8
5	CRM	33.3%	8
5	MCSA	33.3%	8
5	Microsoft Certification	33.3%	8
5	ONVIF	33.3%	8
13	CI/CD	20.8%	5
13	Kubernetes	20.8%	5
13	Machine Learning	20.8%	5
13	Python	20.8%	5
17	A/B Testing	16.7%	4
17	AWS	16.7%	4
17	Azure	16.7%	4
17	Broadband	16.7%	4
17	Data Ingestion	16.7%	4
17	Docker	16.7%	4
17	Generative AI	16.7%	4
17	Infrastructure as Code	16.7%	4
17	Java	16.7%	4
17	Mentoring	16.7%	4
17	Metadata	16.7%	4
17	Microsoft	16.7%	4
17	Personalization	16.7%	4
17	PyTorch	16.7%	4

Video\Live Streaming Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Video on Demand	16.7%	4
2	Distributed Systems	8.3%	2
2	Media Streaming	8.3%	2
2	Over-the-Top Content	8.3%	2
5	Algorithms	4.2%	1
5	BBC	4.2%	1
5	Cloud Native	4.2%	1
5	Enterprise Software	4.2%	1
5	Video Conferencing	4.2%	1