Virtual Reality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality (VR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Reality in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Reality over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 446 503
Rank change year-on-year +61 +57 -78
Contract jobs citing Virtual Reality 6 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.046% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.100% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £367 £323 £311
25th Percentile £373 £334 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +6.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £411 £578 £444
90th Percentile £416 £663 £488
UK median daily rate £447 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +11.63% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - £53.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £56.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £26.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +131.13% -51.38% +10.38%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Reality is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,020 7,766 9,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.28% 32.50% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 5,251 6,778
10th Percentile £208 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £615 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 436 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.34
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

Virtual Reality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Reality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 of England +29 5 £394 +5.00% 5
Yorkshire +23 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £394 - 2
East of England +9 1 - - 8
Virtual Reality
UK

Virtual Reality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 3 (50.00%) Blender
1 3 (50.00%) Maya
1 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Games
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analogue Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analogue IC Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) IC Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (16.67%) ASIC
2 1 (16.67%) Smartphone
2 1 (16.67%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
1 3 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Design Automation
3 1 (16.67%) IC Design
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (16.67%) Tcl
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Cadence
2 1 (16.67%) Mentor Graphics