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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 545 533
Rank change year-on-year -130 -12 +83
Contract jobs citing Video Editing 14 13 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.039% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.074% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 15
10th Percentile £104 £204 £211
25th Percentile £255 £207 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £218 £325
Median % change year-on-year +68.58% -32.92% -27.78%
75th Percentile £416 £255 £378
90th Percentile £431 £304 £388
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
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 18,905 11,855 11,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 36.00% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,282 7,273 6,902
10th Percentile £323 £293 £278
25th Percentile £425 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -1.29% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,321 624 406
10th Percentile £13.92 £14.33 £15.83
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.42 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +31.31% -40.63% +2.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.75 £51.25
% change year-on-year +28.95% -47.80% +1.43%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -125 11 £416 +90.83% 43
London -89 10 £416 +90.60% 21
Work from Home -63 4 £416 +90.83% 16
UK excluding London -102 1 £500 - 21
Midlands - 1 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 3

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 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 7 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 5 (35.71%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (28.57%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (7.14%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Figma
2 3 (21.43%) Lucidchart
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
1 1 (7.14%) PCoIP
1 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Japanese Language
2 4 (28.57%) Multimedia
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) French Language
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (7.14%) Analyst
1 1 (7.14%) Architect
1 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (7.14%) Content Editor
1 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
1 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (7.14%) Designer
1 1 (7.14%) Innovation Analyst
1 1 (7.14%) Platform Architect
1 1 (7.14%) Video Editor
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Graphic Design
2 3 (21.43%) Digital Media
2 3 (21.43%) Photography
3 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.14%) Animation
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (21.43%) AI
2 3 (21.43%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 2 (14.29%) Infographics
4 1 (7.14%) Business Case
4 1 (7.14%) Content Management
4 1 (7.14%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Experience
4 1 (7.14%) Data Science
4 1 (7.14%) FinOps
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Post-Production
4 1 (7.14%) Prototyping
4 1 (7.14%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (7.14%) Storytelling
4 1 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Remedy
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) Avid
3 1 (7.14%) Teradici
3 1 (7.14%) YouTube