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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 368 414
Rank change year-on-year +17 +46 +152
Contract jobs citing Animation 11 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.082% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.37% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 19
10th Percentile £333 £202 £262
25th Percentile £372 £266 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% -13.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £509 £418 £437
90th Percentile £549 £600 £515
England median daily rate £352 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +8.23% -13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
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 £80.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +88.24% -2.86%

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 5,123 5,440 7,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.14% 33.69% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 3,605 5,587
10th Percentile £334 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 68 84
10th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.27
25th Percentile £23.71 £23.35 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%
75th Percentile £46.55 £54.06 £53.38
90th Percentile £70.88 £71.44 £74.60
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Animation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Animation 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 17 September 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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (18.18%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (18.18%) Final Cut Pro
1 2 (18.18%) Photoshop
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (9.09%) Camtasia
2 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (9.09%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Xcode
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Advertising
3 2 (18.18%) Games
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Animator
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Artworker
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Instructional Designer
3 1 (9.09%) iOS Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Motion Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) UI Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (9.09%) Core Animation
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) LangChain
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) SwiftUI
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (9.09%) UIKit
2 1 (9.09%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (9.09%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Learning Management System
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
1 1 (9.09%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (9.09%) Social Media
1 1 (9.09%) Video Editing
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Conversational UI
3 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Game Development
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Mathematics
4 1 (9.09%) Physics
4 1 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Usability Testing
4 1 (9.09%) UX Design
4 1 (9.09%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) GRC
1 1 (9.09%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) NVIDIA
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow