Animation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Animation
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Animation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.25% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 671 314 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.11% 31.69% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 205 205
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £702 £800
North West median daily rate £500 £460 £495
% change year-on-year +8.70% -6.98% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 14 26
10th Percentile £19.46 £23.56 £15.71
25th Percentile £28.50 £34.50 £20.69
Median hourly rate £45.50 £54.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% +21.11% +68.22%
75th Percentile £77.50 £70.63 £61.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.38 £95.25
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £38.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +15.55% +69.09% -35.71%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Animation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Animation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Animation

Animation
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Animation

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Junos
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Effects
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (80.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (60.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Perforce
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Google
5 1 (20.00%) Arista
5 1 (20.00%) Aruba
5 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (20.00%) Juniper
5 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto