Video on Demand Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Video on Demand (VOD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video on Demand in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 301 341 465
Rank change year-on-year +40 +124 +162
Contract jobs citing Video on Demand 3 4 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.026% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.091% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £393 £418 £447
25th Percentile £494 £427 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £481 £513
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -6.10% +2.50%
75th Percentile £844 £572 £598
90th Percentile £938 £589 £719
UK median daily rate £350 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -22.22% -14.29% -19.23%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Video on Demand
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Video on Demand as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Video on Demand trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Video on Demand
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Video on Demand.

Video on Demand daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Video on Demand
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Video on Demand daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Video on Demand
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
2 1 (33.33%) Fastly
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Video On Demand Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) PlayReady
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) VCL
2 1 (33.33%) Widevine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) MPEG
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Android Development
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DRM
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus