HEVC Contract Job Trends

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HEVC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 563 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing HEVC 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.003% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% - -
75th Percentile £288 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

HEVC falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,083 7,920 10,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 21.65% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,370 5,006 7,501
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 115 190
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.00 £35.59
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

HEVC
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HEVC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HEVC job vacancy trend in the UK

HEVC
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HEVC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HEVC

HEVC
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HEVC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HEVC

HEVC
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HEVC within the UK over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. 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 - 2 £275 -
England - 2 £275 - 2

HEVC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FFmpeg
1 1 (50.00%) GStreamer
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) ONNX
1 1 (50.00%) OpenCL
1 1 (50.00%) SciPy
1 1 (50.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA