Animation Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Animation
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 242 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing Animation 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.069% - 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% - 0.50%
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 - - -
England median daily rate £418 £316 £320
% change year-on-year +32.12% -1.25% -1.54%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,466 1,285 1,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.83% 32.91% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 819 700
10th Percentile £325 £268 £297
25th Percentile £413 £368 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £596
90th Percentile £675 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 51 101
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £12.15
25th Percentile £25.49 £22.63 £13.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £35.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.60% +133.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.88 £32.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -28.78% +12.04%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Animation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Animation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Animation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Animation

Animation
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Animation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Animation

Animation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Animation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
North West - 5 £500 - 3
Animation
England

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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