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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 511 558
Rank change year-on-year -113 +47 +93
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 29 20 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.066% 0.069%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 17
10th Percentile - £313 £380
25th Percentile £153 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -52.50% -11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £463 £431 £563
90th Percentile £560 £670 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £160 £400 £538
% change year-on-year -60.00% -25.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £29.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +111.86% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £36.75 -
90th Percentile - £51.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 16,701 10,472 13,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.82% 34.62% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,235 6,540 8,286
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 859 477 934
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +40.32% -14.54% +61.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £86.43 £80.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +46.53% -16.72% +63.74%

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 June 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 9 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 June 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 -116 28 £190 -52.50% 20
UK excluding London -101 18 £160 -60.00% 14
East of England - 14 £155 - 1
London -68 9 £375 -34.78% 11
Work from Home -53 5 £500 +25.00% 6
Midlands - 2 £450 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
South West -33 1 - - 1
South East -59 1 £575 +43.75% 4

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 2 (6.90%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (6.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (6.90%) Serverless
2 2 (6.90%) Stripe
2 2 (6.90%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) LAN
1 1 (3.45%) Multicast
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
1 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (6.90%) Spark SQL
1 2 (6.90%) Tableau
2 1 (3.45%) GIS
2 1 (3.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Android Studio
2 2 (6.90%) Claude Code
2 2 (6.90%) Xcode
3 1 (3.45%) Gradle
General
1 12 (41.38%) Telecoms
2 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Technical Support
2 11 (37.93%) Support Specialist
2 11 (37.93%) Technical Specialist
2 11 (37.93%) Technical Support Specialist
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Audio Visual Technician
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Installation Technician
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Support Technician
6 1 (3.45%) CRM Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.45%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) IP Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) ONVIF
2 2 (6.90%) Next.js
2 2 (6.90%) PySpark
2 2 (6.90%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (6.90%) Yocto
3 1 (3.45%) Core Media
3 1 (3.45%) GStreamer
3 1 (3.45%) iOS SDK
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.45%) Qt
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Device Driver
1 2 (6.90%) Educational Technology
1 2 (6.90%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (6.90%) Social Media
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.45%) Animation
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Media Streaming
2 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Android
2 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Time Management
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 12 (41.38%) CRM
2 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Analytics
3 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
4 3 (10.34%) AI
4 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (10.34%) Customer Service
4 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
5 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.90%) Data Modelling
5 2 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
5 2 (6.90%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (6.90%) Kanban
5 2 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Kotlin
1 3 (10.34%) Swift
2 2 (6.90%) C
2 2 (6.90%) C++
2 2 (6.90%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.90%) Objective-C
2 2 (6.90%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) BrightScript
3 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) Degree
2 12 (41.38%) A+ Certification
2 12 (41.38%) CCNA
2 12 (41.38%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (41.38%) MCSA
2 12 (41.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Adobe
1 2 (6.90%) Databricks
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) Sony
2 1 (3.45%) Arista
2 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
2 1 (3.45%) Roku
23 Video\Live Streaming jobs Nationwide