Visual Effects Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Visual Effects (VFX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 464 - 387
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
Contract jobs citing Visual Effects 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% - 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £305 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - -
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile £500 - -
UK median daily rate £310 £413 £590
% change year-on-year -24.85% -30.08% +52.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,064 13,099 17,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.16% 89.50% 83.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,108 8,001 10,340
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £405 £366 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £589 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,144 2,120
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £51.68 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

Visual Effects
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Visual Effects job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Visual Effects
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Visual Effects.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Effects in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Effects in the UK excluding London

Visual Effects
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Visual Effects.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Visual Effects

Visual Effects
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 Visual Effects within the UK excluding London 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
South West - 4 £310 -
North of England - 2 £475 - 2
North West - 2 £475 - 1
Visual Effects
UK

Visual Effects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (66.67%) Maya
1 4 (66.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) NAS
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) 3D Artist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Global Marketing
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Perforce
1 2 (33.33%) VMware