Video Processing Contracts

Video Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Video Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Video Processing 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 514 579 716
Rank change year-on-year +65 +137 +138
Contract jobs citing Video Processing 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.007% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.008% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £443 £355 -
25th Percentile £488 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £691 £600 -
90th Percentile £876 £645 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58.66
25th Percentile - - £60.01
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - +52.61% +47.12%
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - £65.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £95.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year - +52.61% +47.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Video Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Video Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Video Processing in the UK

Video Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Video Processing in the UK

Video Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Video Processing in the UK

Video Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Video Processing in the UK

Video Processing
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video Processing 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
UK excluding London +66 4 £525 - 12
England +58 4 £525 +5.00% 22
Work from Home +41 2 £1,000 +185.71% 5
London +38 2 £575 +15.00% 12
Scotland - 2 £1,000 -
North of England - 1 £525 - 1
North West - 1 £525 -
South East - 1 £425 - 8

Video Processing
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 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Vision Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) GStreamer
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OpenCL
2 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) CUDA
1 1 (16.67%) Device Driver
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
1 1 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Image Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Parallel Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
1 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA