Video Editing Contract Job Trends

Video Editing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video Editing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Video Editing over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 542 528
Rank change year-on-year -112 -14 +126
Contract jobs citing Video Editing 6 13 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.039% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.034% 0.11% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 17
10th Percentile - £247 £227
25th Percentile £305 £328 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year -32.63% +35.71% +118.75%
75th Percentile £433 £538 £388
90th Percentile £473 £568 £433
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £368
% change year-on-year -13.04% +56.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% - -
75th Percentile £28.75 £16.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £16.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Video Editing 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 17,871 11,569 11,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.49% 35.13% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,838 7,128 7,571
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 995 561 607
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.13 £12.45
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.31
Median hourly rate £43.50 £29.33 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.31% -34.82% +12.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.00 £67.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -34.96% +11.59%

Video Editing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Video Editing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Video Editing job vacancy trend in the UK

Video Editing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video Editing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video Editing

Video Editing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Video Editing over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Video Editing in the UK

Video Editing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video Editing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Video Editing

Video Editing
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 Editing within the UK over the 6 months to 13 August 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 -102 6 £320 -32.63% 26
London -82 5 £315 -5.97% 14
Work from Home -56 1 £415 +7.79% 11
UK excluding London -108 1 £500 -13.04% 18
Midlands - 1 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 1

Video Editing
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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (50.00%) Final Cut Pro
2 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (16.67%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (16.67%) Canva
2 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Designer
1 1 (16.67%) Innovation Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Graphic Design
2 1 (16.67%) Animation
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Media
2 1 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) AI
1 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
1 2 (33.33%) Storytelling
1 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Copywriting
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Infographics
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
2 1 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (16.67%) SEO
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Adobe
3 1 (16.67%) Facebook
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Hootsuite
3 1 (16.67%) Instagram
3 1 (16.67%) TikTok
3 1 (16.67%) YouTube