Virtual Reality Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Reality (VR)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Reality in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Reality over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 210 247
Rank change year-on-year +32 +37 -60
Contract jobs citing Virtual Reality 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.035% 0.014%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.11% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £373 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £411 £388 £413
90th Percentile £416 - -
England median daily rate £431 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +4.36% -2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £26.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +131.13% -44.21% -3.80%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Virtual Reality 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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,239 1,745 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.50% 30.69% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 1,173 1,811
10th Percentile £266 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £410 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £583 £619 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 80 102
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.06
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -9.41% +5.08%
75th Percentile £26.62 £42.24 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.72 £44.00
England median hourly rate £32.75 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +45.65% -16.66% +2.92%

Virtual Reality
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Virtual Reality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Reality in the North of England

Virtual Reality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Reality in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Reality in the North of England

Virtual Reality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Reality in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Reality in the North of England

Virtual Reality
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Reality within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +21 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £394 - 2
Virtual Reality
England

Virtual Reality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 3 (60.00%) Blender
1 3 (60.00%) Maya
1 3 (60.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Games
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Augmented Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Creative Thinking
1 3 (60.00%) Interaction Design
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Adobe