DRM Contracts in England

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DRM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DRM 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 484 535 611
Rank change year-on-year +51 +76 +161
Contract jobs citing DRM 1 7 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.019% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.022% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 24
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile - £463 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £475 £618
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -23.08% +7.39%
75th Percentile - £538 £628
90th Percentile - £559 £646
UK median daily rate £1,000 £475 £618
% change year-on-year +110.53% -23.08% +7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

DRM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DRM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DRM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DRM in England

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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 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Fastly
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Video On Demand Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) PlayReady
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) VCL
1 1 (100.00%) Widevine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) MPEG
1 1 (100.00%) Video on Demand
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus