DRM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 303 344 437
Rank change year-on-year +41 +93 +189
Contract jobs citing DRM 1 1 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.007% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.007% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £513 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £525 £618
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -14.98% -8.65%
75th Percentile - £538 £638
90th Percentile - - £775
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

DRM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DRM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DRM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DRM.

DRM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DRM.

DRM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DRM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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