MPEG Contracts

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term MPEG in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MPEG over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 658 835
Rank change year-on-year +83 +177 -114
Contract jobs citing MPEG 4 26 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.046% 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% 0.14% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 5
10th Percentile - £474 £473
25th Percentile £425 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +77.78%
75th Percentile £475 £656 -
90th Percentile - £753 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

MPEG is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,790 29,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.06% 33.33% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 12,953 20,440
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 610 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.20 £10.63 £17.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
% change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%

MPEG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MPEG in the UK

MPEG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MPEG in the UK

MPEG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MPEG in the UK

MPEG
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPEG within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +74 3 £450 -18.18% 1
Work from Home +105 2 £450 -18.18%
London +77 2 £450 -18.18% 1
East of England - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -

MPEG
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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DVB
1 1 (25.00%) RTMP
1 1 (25.00%) RTP
1 1 (25.00%) RTSP
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CMake
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Broadcast Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Broadcast Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) C Developer
1 1 (25.00%) C/C++ Developer
1 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FFmpeg
1 1 (25.00%) GStreamer
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (25.00%) Google