Visual Effects Contract Job Trends in the North West

Visual Effects (VFX)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Visual Effects skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Effects 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.055% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £520 - -
England median daily rate £310 £413 £590
% change year-on-year -24.85% -30.08% +65.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Visual Effects falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,063 1,886 2,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.76% 88.21% 84.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,811 1,240 1,426
10th Percentile £298 £280 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £585
90th Percentile £675 £669 £675
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 118 265
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.02 £15.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.90 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.22% +6.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £67.14
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

Visual Effects
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Visual Effects relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Visual Effects job vacancy trend in the North West

Visual Effects
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Effects.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Effects.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Effects within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester - 2 £475 - 1
Visual Effects
England

Visual Effects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Perforce
1 2 (100.00%) VMware