Virtual Reality Contract Job Trends in London

Virtual Reality (VR)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Reality in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Reality over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 372 372
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +160
Contract jobs citing Virtual Reality 16 11 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.073% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.21% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 20
10th Percentile £310 £354 £278
25th Percentile £375 £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £431 £424
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.65% -22.65%
75th Percentile £509 £567 £530
90th Percentile £528 £629 £556
England median daily rate £400 £431 £363
% change year-on-year -7.08% +18.76% -27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.50
25th Percentile £51.75 £69.00 £39.38
Median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +40.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £71.00 £58.13
90th Percentile - - £61.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £46.25
% change year-on-year -2.44% +10.81% -22.27%

All Generic Skills
London

Virtual Reality 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 5,593 5,154 6,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.89% 34.29% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,585 3,295 4,513
10th Percentile £343 £325 £321
25th Percentile £430 £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 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 66 107
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.87
25th Percentile £20.00 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -11.30%
75th Percentile £45.95 £55.94 £49.48
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.76
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.25%

Virtual Reality
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Virtual Reality job vacancy trend in London

Virtual Reality
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Reality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Reality in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Reality in London

Virtual Reality
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Reality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality
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 Virtual Reality within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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 - 2 - - 1
Virtual Reality
England

Virtual Reality
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:

Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe XD
2 2 (12.50%) InVision
2 2 (12.50%) Sketch
2 2 (12.50%) Trello
3 1 (6.25%) CINEMA 4D
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Asana
1 2 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BGP
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) IPsec
1 1 (6.25%) VLAN
1 1 (6.25%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Axure RP
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Games
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Android Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Service Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Android NDK
1 6 (37.50%) Android SDK
1 6 (37.50%) iOS SDK
1 6 (37.50%) JNI
1 6 (37.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (18.75%) Bazel
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) Framer.js
3 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) CrewAI
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) LangChain
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Augmented Reality
2 5 (31.25%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (12.50%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (6.25%) Acoustics
4 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.25%) Animation
4 1 (6.25%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Android
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 6 (37.50%) Mac OS
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Clean Code
2 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Use Case
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Product Management
3 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 4 (25.00%) Android Development
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) A/B Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 2 (12.50%) Prototyping
6 2 (12.50%) Service Design
6 2 (12.50%) SFIA
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 2 (12.50%) User Experience
6 2 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (12.50%) UX Design
6 2 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C++
2 6 (37.50%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) Kotlin
4 4 (25.00%) PHP
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) Bourne shell
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) KVM
1 1 (6.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) AlgoSec
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) NetApp
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto