Adobe After Effects Contracts

Adobe After Effects
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Adobe After Effects skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Adobe After Effects over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 530 633
Rank change year-on-year -11 +103 +181
Contract jobs citing Adobe After Effects 12 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.046% 0.044%
As % of the Applications category 0.43% 0.71% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £206 £263 £263
25th Percentile £225 £300 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £338 £310
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £375 £428 £388
90th Percentile £460 £513 £465
UK excluding London median daily rate £240 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Application Skills
UK

Adobe After Effects falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,820 2,541 3,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.55% 6.53% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,589 1,418 2,563
10th Percentile £200 £163 £180
25th Percentile £300 £243 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £550
90th Percentile £650 £631 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 392 263
10th Percentile £13.60 £11.81 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.84 £15.00 £16.45
Median hourly rate £22.74 £18.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +26.31% -20.11% +2.41%
75th Percentile £34.92 £43.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £16.23 £21.50
% change year-on-year +35.55% -24.51% +7.50%

Adobe After Effects
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Adobe After Effects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Adobe After Effects in the UK

Adobe After Effects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Adobe After Effects.

Daily rate trend for Adobe After Effects in the UK

Adobe After Effects
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Adobe After Effects over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Adobe After Effects in the UK

Adobe After Effects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Adobe After Effects.

Hourly rate trend for Adobe After Effects in the UK

Adobe After Effects
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe After Effects within the UK over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
England +4 10 £240 -28.89% 49
Work from Home +21 9 £240 -26.15% 27
London +13 5 £288 -11.54% 28
UK excluding London +7 5 £240 - 26
South East - 2 £240 - 7
South West - 1 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 8
Midlands - 1 - - 9
East of England - 1 - - 2

Adobe After Effects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (83.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 10 (83.33%) Photoshop
2 5 (41.67%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
3 4 (33.33%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (8.33%) Blender
4 1 (8.33%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (8.33%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Veeva
General
1 7 (58.33%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Advertising
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Arabic Language
4 1 (8.33%) French Language
4 1 (8.33%) German Language
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Italian Language
4 1 (8.33%) Japanese Language
4 1 (8.33%) Korean Language
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Designer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Motion Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Animator
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Motion Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Artworker
5 1 (8.33%) Creative Artworker
5 1 (8.33%) Creative Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Visual Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Video Editor
5 1 (8.33%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Framer.js
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Animation
1 6 (50.00%) Motion Graphics
2 4 (33.33%) Social Media
3 3 (25.00%) Graphic Design
3 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (16.67%) Video Editing
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Media
5 1 (8.33%) New Media
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Storytelling
2 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (25.00%) Typography
2 3 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Deadline-Driven
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Storyboarding
3 2 (16.67%) UX Design
4 1 (8.33%) A/B Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) CRM
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
4 1 (8.33%) Interaction Design
4 1 (8.33%) Microinteractions
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Time Management
4 1 (8.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Adobe
2 2 (16.67%) YouTube
3 1 (8.33%) Instagram
3 1 (8.33%) TikTok