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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 577 662
Rank change year-on-year +28 +85 +193
Contract jobs citing Video on Demand 7 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.010% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.061% 0.031% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 13
10th Percentile - £416 £180
25th Percentile £325 £422 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £475 £572 £538
90th Percentile £738 £589 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - -23.08%

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 11,383 12,856 18,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 30.56% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,021 8,214 12,528
10th Percentile £303 £295 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% -1.95% -
75th Percentile £645 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 803 481
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.25 £11.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.92 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +29.73%
75th Percentile £57.52 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £79.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +109.30%

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 19 July 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 2 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 19 July 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
Work from Home +27 7 £400 -23.81% 6
England +40 4 £400 -17.95% 17

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 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Akamai
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
4 1 (14.29%) Fastly
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Git
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Architect
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Video On Demand Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) PlayReady
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) VCL
3 1 (14.29%) Widevine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) MPEG
2 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Android Development
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) DRM
2 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
2 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus