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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 344 371
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 +115
Contract jobs citing Animation 17 23 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.49% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 15
10th Percentile £258 £200 £205
25th Percentile £322 £302 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £350 £422
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -17.06% +12.53%
75th Percentile £498 £380 £446
90th Percentile £563 £427 £552
England median daily rate £365 £328 £400
% change year-on-year +11.45% -18.13% +14.29%
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 £38.75 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.50%

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 5,854 4,667 5,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.96% 34.67% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,820 2,996 4,174
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £433 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £513 £540 £548
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.50% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 63 178
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.72 £39.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% +48.57% -19.70%
75th Percentile £55.81 £59.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £33.09 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% +17.46% +40.00%

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 26 February 2026.

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 26 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
Central London +8 3 £550 +266.67% 3
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 4 (23.53%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Photoshop
2 6 (35.29%) Adobe After Effects
2 6 (35.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (23.53%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (23.53%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (5.88%) Blender
5 1 (5.88%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (5.88%) InDesign
5 1 (5.88%) Maya
5 1 (5.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Firebase
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Apple Pay
3 1 (5.88%) Bitrise
3 1 (5.88%) Figma
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) Xcode
2 2 (11.76%) CocoaPods
2 2 (11.76%) Crashlytics
2 2 (11.76%) fastlane
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Wearables
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Designer
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) iOS Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Motion Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior iOS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Animator
5 1 (5.88%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.88%) Creative Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) iOS Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead iOS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) PowerPoint Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Core Animation
2 3 (17.65%) Core Data
2 3 (17.65%) UIKit
3 2 (11.76%) AVFoundation
3 2 (11.76%) Framer.js
3 2 (11.76%) GreenSock GSAP
3 2 (11.76%) React
3 2 (11.76%) RxSwift
3 2 (11.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (11.76%) WebGL
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) SwiftUI
4 1 (5.88%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) IoT
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (5.88%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Storytelling
2 4 (23.53%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
2 4 (23.53%) OOP
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) AI
3 3 (17.65%) Design Thinking
3 3 (17.65%) Interaction Design
3 3 (17.65%) iOS Development
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) MVVM
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Push Notifications
3 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Visual Effects
4 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
4 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.76%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Swift
2 3 (17.65%) Objective-C
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Adobe
2 3 (17.65%) Apple
3 2 (11.76%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Autodesk