Animation Contract Job Trends

Animation
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 522 570
Rank change year-on-year -39 +48 +155
Contract jobs citing Animation 26 30 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.087% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.27% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 17
10th Percentile £209 £188 £268
25th Percentile £258 £272 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £325 £422
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -22.99% +12.53%
75th Percentile £502 £472 £448
90th Percentile £576 £563 £491
UK excluding London median daily rate £314 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -30.28% +20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £35.00 - £21.39
25th Percentile £45.31 - £30.40
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile £50.63 - £50.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £34.64
% change year-on-year - - +34.21%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,902 10,988 13,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 31.94% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,059 6,574 9,251
10th Percentile £275 £270 £263
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £660 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 649 344 493
10th Percentile £13.84 £17.25 £16.51
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.72 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £33.27 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -21.72% +21.43%
75th Percentile £58.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.45 £77.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -16.92% -28.11% +53.25%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Animation job vacancy trend in the UK

Animation
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Animation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Animation

Animation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Animation over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Animation in the UK

Animation
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Animation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Animation

Animation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Animation over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Animation in the UK

Animation
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Animation within the UK over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -44 22 £380 +16.92% 20
London -12 14 £380 +16.92% 6
UK excluding London -54 9 £314 -30.28% 19
Work from Home -6 6 £283 -13.08% 6
Midlands -30 6 £388 -13.89% 1
West Midlands -33 6 £388 -13.89%
South East -14 2 £240 - 14
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Adobe After Effects
2 8 (30.77%) Photoshop
3 7 (26.92%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (19.23%) Maya
5 4 (15.38%) Blender
5 4 (15.38%) CINEMA 4D
6 3 (11.54%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (11.54%) NUKE
7 2 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (7.69%) Final Cut Pro
7 2 (7.69%) InDesign
8 1 (3.85%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (3.85%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Firebase
3 2 (7.69%) Figma
4 1 (3.85%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) Apple Pay
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) Bitrise
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.85%) Stripe
4 1 (3.85%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
1 3 (11.54%) Xcode
2 2 (7.69%) CocoaPods
2 2 (7.69%) Crashlytics
2 2 (7.69%) fastlane
3 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Games
3 4 (15.38%) Automotive
4 3 (11.54%) Advertising
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.85%) Finance
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Designer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Animator
4 3 (11.54%) iOS Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Graphic Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior iOS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) HTML CSS Designer
6 1 (3.85%) iOS Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead iOS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Motion Graphics Designer
6 1 (3.85%) PowerPoint Designer
6 1 (3.85%) UI Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Video Editor
6 1 (3.85%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) CSS
1 6 (23.08%) HTML
2 4 (15.38%) Core Animation
2 4 (15.38%) Django
2 4 (15.38%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (11.54%) Core Data
3 3 (11.54%) UIKit
3 3 (11.54%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (7.69%) AVFoundation
4 2 (7.69%) RxSwift
4 2 (7.69%) WebGL
5 1 (3.85%) Framer.js
5 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.85%) OpenGL
5 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.85%) React
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) SwiftUI
5 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.85%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Social Media
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.85%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.85%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.85%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Storyboarding
1 5 (19.23%) Storytelling
1 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
2 4 (15.38%) Agile
2 4 (15.38%) Analytics
2 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
2 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
2 4 (15.38%) OOP
2 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (11.54%) 3D Animation
3 3 (11.54%) AI
3 3 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (11.54%) iOS Development
3 3 (11.54%) MVVM
3 3 (11.54%) Push Notifications
3 3 (11.54%) Typography
3 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
3 3 (11.54%) User Experience
4 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Java
1 5 (19.23%) Python
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) C++
2 4 (15.38%) Swift
3 3 (11.54%) Objective-C
3 3 (11.54%) Tcl
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Adobe
2 3 (11.54%) Apple
3 2 (7.69%) Autodesk
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA