Animation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Animation
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 119 123
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +47
Contract jobs citing Animation 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% 0.055% 0.085%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.17% 0.28%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £150 £325
% change year-on-year +266.67% -53.85% -35.00%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 598 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.36% 32.80% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 381 496
10th Percentile £350 £363 £266
25th Percentile £440 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £708
90th Percentile £788 £800 £828
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £19.39 - £12.75
25th Percentile £23.66 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% +63.16% -53.09%
75th Percentile £50.83 - £41.94
90th Percentile £66.53 - £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% +63.16% -45.71%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Animation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Animation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Animation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Animation

Animation
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Animation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Animation

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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