Animation Contract Job Trends in Central London

Animation
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 129 136
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +33
Contract jobs citing Animation 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.14% 0.048% 0.077%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £525 £145 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £150 £325
Median % change year-on-year +266.67% -53.85% -35.00%
75th Percentile £575 £155 £338
90th Percentile £583 - -
London median daily rate £365 £350 £422
% change year-on-year +4.29% -17.06% +12.53%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Animation 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 requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 757 659 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.10% 31.73% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 432 552
10th Percentile £350 £363 £271
25th Percentile £436 £463 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £788 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 13
10th Percentile £20.82 - £13.60
25th Percentile £26.11 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +63.16% -45.71%
75th Percentile £50.43 - £27.50
90th Percentile £59.72 - £49.55
London median hourly rate £29.75 £38.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -21.71% +44.76% -21.06%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Animation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Animation job vacancy trend in Central London

Animation
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Animation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Animation

Animation
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Animation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Animation

Animation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Animation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
City of London -6 3 £550 +266.67% 3
Animation
London

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) CocoaPods
1 2 (66.67%) Crashlytics
1 2 (66.67%) fastlane
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) iOS Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AVFoundation
1 2 (66.67%) Core Animation
1 2 (66.67%) Core Data
1 2 (66.67%) RxSwift
1 2 (66.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Code Coverage
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) iOS Development
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) MVVM
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
1 2 (66.67%) Push Notifications
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
1 2 (66.67%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) Google