Animation Contract Job Trends in London

Animation
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 351 364
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +142
Contract jobs citing Animation 14 21 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.098% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 13
10th Percentile £269 £183 £235
25th Percentile £331 £266 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £325 £423
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -23.08% -8.15%
75th Percentile £556 £379 £496
90th Percentile £580 £573 £570
England median daily rate £384 £325 £422
% change year-on-year +18.08% -23.03% +16.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £42.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - -0.36%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,530 5,073 6,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.56% 34.26% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,567 3,228 4,382
10th Percentile £343 £325 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £720
90th Percentile £800 £846 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 64 108
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.33 £18.72
25th Percentile £20.21 £24.33 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.21 £35.25 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -25.66% +18.05% -14.69%
75th Percentile £46.94 £59.25 £49.28
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.60
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.80% -12.94% +25.67%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Animation job vacancy trend in London

Animation
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Animation

Animation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Animation in London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Animation in London

Animation
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Animation

Animation
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. 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
Central London - 3 £550 - 1
Animation
England

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Photoshop
2 3 (21.43%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (21.43%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (7.14%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (7.14%) Blender
4 1 (7.14%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (7.14%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (7.14%) InDesign
4 1 (7.14%) Maya
4 1 (7.14%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Firebase
2 2 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Apple Pay
3 1 (7.14%) Bitrise
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 3 (21.43%) Xcode
2 2 (14.29%) CocoaPods
2 2 (14.29%) Crashlytics
2 2 (14.29%) fastlane
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Designer
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) iOS Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Animator
3 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.14%) Creative Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) iOS Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead iOS Developer
3 1 (7.14%) PowerPoint Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Core Animation
2 3 (21.43%) Core Data
2 3 (21.43%) UIKit
2 3 (21.43%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (14.29%) AVFoundation
3 2 (14.29%) RxSwift
3 2 (14.29%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.14%) LangChain
4 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) SwiftUI
4 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.14%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 2 (14.29%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (14.29%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Analytics
1 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
1 4 (28.57%) OOP
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) iOS Development
2 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
2 3 (21.43%) MVVM
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Push Notifications
2 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
3 2 (14.29%) AI
3 2 (14.29%) Code Coverage
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Cryptography
3 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 2 (14.29%) OO
3 2 (14.29%) Product Management
3 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Swift
2 3 (21.43%) Objective-C
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Adobe
2 3 (21.43%) Apple
3 2 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Autodesk
4 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA