MPEG Contracts in England

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term MPEG in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MPEG over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 634 795
Rank change year-on-year +96 +161 -184
Contract jobs citing MPEG 3 27 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.054% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.026% 0.16% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 3
10th Percentile - £474 £430
25th Percentile £425 £525 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +71.43%
75th Percentile £475 £675 -
90th Percentile - £753 -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +77.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,330 16,806 24,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.73% 33.64% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,437 11,667 17,134
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 591 637
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.96
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
% change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%

MPEG
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MPEG in England

MPEG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MPEG in England

MPEG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MPEG in England

MPEG
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MPEG within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 2 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England - 1 - -
MPEG
UK

MPEG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DVB
1 1 (33.33%) RTMP
1 1 (33.33%) RTP
1 1 (33.33%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CMake
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Multimedia
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Broadcast Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Broadcast Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) C Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C/C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FFmpeg
1 1 (33.33%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (33.33%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform