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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 544 597
Rank change year-on-year +6 +53 +159
Contract jobs citing Video\Live Streaming 20 14 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.039% 0.085%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 23
10th Percentile £528 £319 £77
25th Percentile £542 £481 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% +20.59% -32.00%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £689 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +21.95% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile - - £30.40
25th Percentile £28.25 - £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 12,264 11,146 15,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.77% 30.70% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,544 6,604 10,175
10th Percentile £283 £275 £285
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 669 344 494
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £22.17 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% -8.93% +62.79%
75th Percentile £50.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.75 £42.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.06% -7.97% +102.88%

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
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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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 -7 20 £581 +13.41% 128
London +2 11 - - 62
Work from Home +3 8 - - 103
UK excluding London -28 8 £625 +21.95% 111
South West - 6 - - 10
Midlands -22 1 £625 +21.95% 7
East Midlands - 1 £625 - 6
East of England - 1 - - 12

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) BGP
1 2 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) IPsec
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) Multicast
1 2 (10.00%) OSPF
1 2 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.00%) VLAN
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
1 2 (10.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) GIS
2 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Agriculture
2 1 (5.00%) Agrochemical
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Broadcast Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Lead
2 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Optimisation Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Senior
2 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Incident Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Workday Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Middleware
1 6 (30.00%) Qt
2 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (20.00%) Social Media
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Information Security
1 6 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
1 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (20.00%) Post-Production
3 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (10.00%) Change Control
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (10.00%) Microservices
4 2 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (10.00%) Observability
4 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) C++
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Firmware
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco
1 2 (10.00%) Databricks
1 2 (10.00%) F5
1 2 (10.00%) Juniper
1 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Workday