Video Processing Contract Job Trends

Video Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Video Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 514 601
Rank change year-on-year -89 +87 +138
Contract jobs citing Video Processing 6 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.010% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.011% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £332 £471 -
25th Percentile £407 £559 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £713 £500
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +42.50% -
75th Percentile £559 £859 -
90th Percentile £631 £944 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £713 -
% change year-on-year -43.72% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.70
25th Percentile - - £67.25
Median hourly rate - - £76.50
75th Percentile - - £85.75
90th Percentile - - £91.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £95.00
% change year-on-year - - +64.47%

All Process & 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 34,545 27,534 38,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.04% 89.45% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,908 16,837 25,471
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 848 2,117
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.78 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -11.20% +8.53%

Video Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Video Processing job vacancy trend in the UK

Video Processing
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Video Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Video Processing over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Video Processing in the UK

Video Processing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Video Processing
Top 5 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 Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 11 February 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 -60 6 £450 +5.88% 9
London - 5 £450 - 3
Work from Home -12 2 £450 -55.00% 3
South East -38 1 £401 -5.65% 3
UK excluding London -73 1 £401 -43.72% 8

Video Processing
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Vision Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 2 (33.33%) ETL Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Broadcast Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) Backbone.js
1 2 (33.33%) Bootstrap
1 2 (33.33%) Ember.js
1 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 2 (33.33%) jQuery
1 2 (33.33%) Keras
1 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) HEVC
2 1 (16.67%) NumPy
2 1 (16.67%) ONNX
2 1 (16.67%) OpenCL
2 1 (16.67%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CUDA
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Development
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Vision
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Human-in-the-Loop
3 2 (33.33%) Image Processing
3 2 (33.33%) LLM
3 2 (33.33%) MLOps
3 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Statistics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) PhD
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA