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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 536 616
Rank change year-on-year -8 +80 +148
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 24 23 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.060% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 25
10th Percentile - £354 £170
25th Percentile £400 £413 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +28.13% -38.46%
75th Percentile £577 £553 £538
90th Percentile £613 £635 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £513 £400
% change year-on-year -21.95% +28.13% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.25 - £18.57
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £19.38
75th Percentile - - £20.19
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 11,702 11,714 15,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.52% 30.41% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,164 7,180 10,922
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £807 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 473 447
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.41 £16.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.72
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.11 £57.35 £49.00
% change year-on-year -47.51% +17.04% +124.98%

Video\Live Streaming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Video\Live Streaming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Video\Live Streaming 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Video\Live Streaming in the UK

Video\Live Streaming
Top 10 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 18 September 2025. 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 +23 24 £469 +4.17% 29
London +25 13 - - 17
UK excluding London -5 10 £400 -21.95% 17
Work from Home +26 8 - - 9
South West +31 6 - - 5
North of England -15 2 £400 -21.95% 1
North West -15 2 £400 - 1
Midlands -16 1 £625 +21.95% 1
East Midlands - 1 £625 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 1

Video\Live Streaming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (16.67%) VLAN
2 2 (8.33%) BGP
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (8.33%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.33%) IPsec
2 2 (8.33%) LAN
2 2 (8.33%) Multicast
2 2 (8.33%) OSPF
2 2 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) VXLAN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) GIS
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Agriculture
2 1 (4.17%) Agrochemical
2 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Android Developer
2 2 (8.33%) Broadcast Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Developer
2 2 (8.33%) Juniper Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Lead
2 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Network Systems Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Optimisation Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Senior
2 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
3 1 (4.17%) Workday Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Middleware
1 6 (25.00%) Qt
2 2 (8.33%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (8.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (16.67%) Social Media
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 6 (25.00%) Information Security
2 6 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 4 (16.67%) Observability
4 4 (16.67%) Post-Production
4 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.33%) Network Design
6 2 (8.33%) Pair Programming
6 2 (8.33%) Service Management
6 2 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (8.33%) TDD
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) C++
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
3 2 (8.33%) R
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) CCIE
1 2 (8.33%) CCNP
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) JNCIA
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) PhD
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) Firmware
2 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco
1 4 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) F5
2 2 (8.33%) Juniper
2 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Workday