Over-the-Top Media Services (OTT)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Over-the-Top Content in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Over-the-Top Content over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 894 943 897
Rank change year-on-year +49 -46 -51
Permanent jobs citing Over-the-Top Content 8 29 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.029% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.067% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 27 146
10th Percentile £36,250 - £44,375
25th Percentile £54,063 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Generic Skills
UK

Over-the-Top Content is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Over-the-Top Content
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Over-the-Top Content as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Over-the-Top Content in the UK

Over-the-Top Content
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Over-the-Top Content.

Salary trend for Over-the-Top Content in the UK

Over-the-Top Content
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Over-the-Top Content over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Over-the-Top Content in the UK

Over-the-Top Content
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Over-the-Top Content within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +86 8 £81,250 +1.56% 7
England +78 8 £81,250 +1.56% 8
Work from Home +75 5 £85,000 +11.48% 4

Over-the-Top Content
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 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Games
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering Team Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Software Team Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Manual Tester
2 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Reality
2 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
3 2 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (12.50%) Media Streaming
4 1 (12.50%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) Parallel Processing
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
6 1 (12.50%) Black-Box Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Product Management
6 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
6 1 (12.50%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Hitachi