SideFX Houdini
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Houdini skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Houdini over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 700 837
Rank change year-on-year +120 +137 -145
Contract jobs citing Houdini 3 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.008% 0.009%
As % of the Applications category 0.087% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £533 £289 £270
25th Percentile £544 £295 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £430 £406
Median % change year-on-year +33.72% +5.85% +91.18%
75th Percentile £594 - £477
90th Percentile £598 £472 £494
UK excluding London median daily rate - £295 £406
% change year-on-year - -27.38% +306.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Application Skills
UK

Houdini is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 3,433 4,371 6,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.91% 7.36% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 2,867 4,326
10th Percentile £162 £188 £160
25th Percentile £213 £285 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £684 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £394 £375
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.93% +9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 260 436
10th Percentile £11.61 £14.17 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £35.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.43% +66.28% +16.22%
75th Percentile £39.92 £52.81 £44.68
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £31.27 £19.12
% change year-on-year -48.64% +63.52% +3.36%

Houdini
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Houdini as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Houdini in the UK

Houdini
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Houdini.

Daily rate trend for Houdini in the UK

Houdini
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Houdini within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +115 2 £550 +27.91% 19
London +106 2 £550 +27.91% 8
Work from Home +126 1 £600 +103.39% 5

Houdini
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 2 (66.67%) Maya
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (33.33%) Blender
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (66.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Animation
1 2 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Iconography
1 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Texturing
1 1 (33.33%) Typography
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Perforce
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe