Blender Contract Job Trends

Blender
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Blender skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 565 629
Rank change year-on-year +15 +64 +211
Contract jobs citing Blender 3 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.011% 0.033%
As % of the Applications category 0.11% 0.16% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £210
25th Percentile £218 £395 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £414 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.75% -8.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £273 £432 £530
90th Percentile - - £535
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £28.25 £48.88
25th Percentile - £40.63 £50.94
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £60.94
90th Percentile - - £62.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Application Skills
UK

Blender 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 2,806 2,575 3,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.47% 6.77% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,574 1,437 2,406
10th Percentile £199 £165 £175
25th Percentile £300 £250 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £542 £525 £550
90th Percentile £641 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 256 284
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.62 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.85% -29.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.25 £43.78
90th Percentile £57.85 £58.15 £54.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.57 £16.23 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.03% -27.87% +3.97%

Blender
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Blender job vacancy trend in the UK

Blender
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Blender
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Blender
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blender within the UK over the 6 months to 3 October 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 3 £245 -40.75% 9
London +23 2 £245 -40.75% 7
UK excluding London +2 1 - - 8
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Blender
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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (33.33%) Maya
General
1 2 (66.67%) Games
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Animator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Framer.js
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Animation
2 1 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Texturing
2 1 (33.33%) 3D Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Microinteractions
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Storyboarding
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Autodesk