MPEG Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term MPEG in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MPEG over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 469 621
Rank change year-on-year +123 +152 -140
Contract jobs citing MPEG 2 7 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.027% 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.087% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £525 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £413
90th Percentile - £615 -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +77.78%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

MPEG is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,322 8,030 13,983
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.52% 31.44% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 5,647 9,980
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £451 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 154 225
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.42
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% +29.93%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.15
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
% change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%

MPEG
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MPEG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MPEG trend for jobs with a WFH option

MPEG
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (50.00%) Google