MPEG Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term MPEG in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MPEG 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 303 343 470
Rank change year-on-year +40 +127 +161
Contract jobs citing MPEG 1 2 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.013% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% 0.045% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -18.18% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £475 £575
90th Percentile - - £615
UK median daily rate £1,000 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +122.22% -18.18% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

MPEG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

MPEG
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MPEG trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MPEG
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MPEG daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MPEG
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MPEG hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

MPEG
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%) 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%) DRM
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