DRM Contracts in England

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DRM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DRM over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 603 768
Rank change year-on-year +68 +165 -158
Contract jobs citing DRM 7 42 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.086% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.095% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 7
10th Percentile - £506 £478
25th Percentile £463 £609 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £618 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +7.39% -2.54%
75th Percentile £538 £628 £676
90th Percentile £559 £646 £676
UK median daily rate £475 £618 £575
% change year-on-year -23.08% +7.39% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

DRM is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

DRM
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

DRM
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

DRM
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

DRM
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 DRM within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 +72 5 £475 -23.08% 2
East of England -3 1 £525 -
DRM
UK

DRM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Hub
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Information Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) Redux
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Business Case
2 3 (42.86%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) Data Design
3 2 (28.57%) Record to Report
4 1 (14.29%) Android Development
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) E-Discovery
4 1 (14.29%) Functional Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) MVVM
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Ariba