Post-Production Contract Job Trends

Post-Production
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Post-Production skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 515 583
Rank change year-on-year -62 +68 +181
Contract jobs citing Post-Production 14 26 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.076% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.087% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 6
10th Percentile £298 £256 £161
25th Percentile £313 £313 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +14.29% -18.60%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £497
90th Percentile £925 £809 £519
UK excluding London median daily rate - £471 £488
% change year-on-year - -3.49% +27.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Post-Production 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,565 30,055 38,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.34% 88.19% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,467 18,359 26,012
10th Percentile £300 £306 £307
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,103 978 1,503
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%

Post-Production
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Post-Production job vacancy trend in the UK

Post-Production
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Post-Production.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Post-Production

Post-Production
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Post-Production over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Post-Production in the UK

Post-Production
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Post-Production.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Post-Production

Post-Production
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Post-Production within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
London -8 12 £335 -4.29% 3
England -52 12 £335 -16.25% 3
Work from Home -3 9 £335 -40.44% 2

Post-Production
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 1 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (7.14%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (7.14%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (7.14%) Photoshop
2 1 (7.14%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (7.14%) IPv4
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Advertising
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Marketing
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (14.29%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
1 5 (35.71%) Senior Producer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Functional Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Financials Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Financials Functional Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Post-Production Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Post-Production Support
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
1 1 (7.14%) LangChain
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (7.14%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (7.14%) Animation
2 1 (7.14%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (7.14%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.14%) Video Editing
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Visual Effects
2 4 (28.57%) Customer Experience
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) Storytelling
2 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
3 3 (21.43%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
3 3 (21.43%) Workflow
4 2 (14.29%) Accounts Payable
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) Isilon
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) QNAP
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Workday