Hybrid/Remote Brightcove Contract Job Trends

Brightcove
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Brightcove products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Brightcove over the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Brightcove, Inc.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 - 369
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Brightcove 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.019% - 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.039% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £287 - -
25th Percentile £289 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 - £250
75th Percentile £299 - -
90th Percentile £300 - -
UK median daily rate £295 - £250

All Vendors
Work from Home

Brightcove falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,178 4,874 7,273
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 48.01% 45.28% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 2,988 4,531
10th Percentile £325 £315 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £716 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 82 225
10th Percentile £15.75 £19.73 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.50 £41.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +1.86% -35.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £26.72
% change year-on-year -17.84% +8.53% -16.50%

Brightcove
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Brightcove and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Brightcove job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Brightcove
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Brightcove.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Brightcove

Brightcove
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (50.00%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) fastlane
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (50.00%) Dagger
1 1 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) OkHttp
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Retrofit
1 1 (50.00%) RxCocoa
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
1 1 (50.00%) RxSwift
1 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) Tealium