Video on Demand Contracts

Video on Demand (VOD)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video on Demand in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Video on Demand over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 577 696
Rank change year-on-year +61 +119 +135
Contract jobs citing Video on Demand 4 5 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.011% 0.037%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.040% 0.038% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile £191 £418 £300
25th Percentile £241 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £688 £563 £750
90th Percentile £875 £585 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Video on Demand 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 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

Video on Demand
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Video on Demand as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Video on Demand in the UK

Video on Demand
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Video on Demand.

Daily rate trend for Video on Demand in the UK

Video on Demand
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Video on Demand over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Video on Demand in the UK

Video on Demand
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Video on Demand.

Hourly rate trend for Video on Demand in the UK

Video on Demand
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video on Demand within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +55 3 £350 -22.22% 27
Work from Home +40 3 £675 +40.26% 9
London +34 1 £165 -63.33% 26

Video on Demand
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (25.00%) Fastly
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Media Planner
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Video On Demand Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) PlayReady
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) VCL
2 1 (25.00%) Widevine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) MPEG
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Android Development
2 1 (25.00%) Campaign Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) DRM
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus