Widevine Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Widevine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Widevine 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 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Widevine 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.039% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 - -
UK median daily rate £1,000 - £475

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Widevine 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Widevine
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Widevine trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Widevine
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
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%) 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