Visual Effects Contracts in England

Visual Effects (VFX)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Visual Effects skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Effects over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 650 774
Rank change year-on-year +122 +124 -160
Contract jobs citing Visual Effects 20 18 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.035% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.039% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile - £250 £160
25th Percentile £288 £263 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £388
Median % change year-on-year - -16.13% +12.32%
75th Percentile £363 £430 £400
90th Percentile £462 - £404
UK median daily rate £325 £356 £388
% change year-on-year -8.71% -8.13% +12.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Visual Effects is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Visual Effects
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Visual Effects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Effects in England

Visual Effects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Effects in England.

Daily rate trend for Visual Effects in England

Visual Effects
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Effects in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Effects in England

Visual Effects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Effects in England.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Effects in England

Visual Effects
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Effects within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
London +106 12 £325 -21.69% 13
South East +17 8 - - 4
Visual Effects
UK

Visual Effects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 10 (50.00%) CINEMA 4D
2 8 (40.00%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (20.00%) 3ds Max
3 4 (20.00%) Blender
3 4 (20.00%) Maya
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
1 2 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
General
1 6 (30.00%) Marketing
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Automotive
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Designer
2 6 (30.00%) Graphic Designer
3 5 (25.00%) Animator
3 5 (25.00%) Video Editor
4 4 (20.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Lead Designer
4 4 (20.00%) Maya Artist
4 4 (20.00%) Motion Graphics Designer
5 2 (10.00%) 3D Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Service Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Graphics Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) Jest
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) Nuxt
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Motion Graphics
2 7 (35.00%) Animation
3 2 (10.00%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.00%) Graphic Design
3 2 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (10.00%) Photography
4 1 (5.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Coaching
2 7 (35.00%) Storytelling
3 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL
4 2 (10.00%) ITSM
4 2 (10.00%) Post-Production
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Storyboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.00%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (5.00%) Migration
5 1 (5.00%) SEO
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow