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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 519 615
Rank change year-on-year -47 +96 +156
Contract jobs citing Post-Production 21 36 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.098% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.11% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 8
10th Percentile £313 £313 £182
25th Percentile £314 £425 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +21.05% -
75th Percentile £484 £813 £500
90th Percentile £648 £1,050 £511
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +24.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.25 - -
Median hourly rate £29.50 - -
75th Percentile £30.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 31,497 31,611 41,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.10% 86.07% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,721 19,029 27,959
10th Percentile £294 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,046 1,115 1,587
10th Percentile £14.45 £15.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%
75th Percentile £43.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.57 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -35.52% -20.36% +49.97%

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 7 November 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 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 Post-Production within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 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 -33 18 £335 -48.46% 48
London -6 16 £335 -56.77% 36
Work from Home +10 7 £335 -66.50% 29
UK excluding London -44 3 £525 +10.53% 23
Scotland +5 1 - -
North West -25 1 £525 -8.70%
North of England -33 1 £525 -8.70%
South West - 1 - -

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 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (9.52%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (4.76%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (4.76%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (4.76%) Pro Tools
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) NAS
2 1 (4.76%) IPv4
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Marketing
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Advertising
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Senior Producer
3 1 (4.76%) Content Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
3 1 (4.76%) Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Post-Production Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Post-Production Support
3 1 (4.76%) Production Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Video Content Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) EDI
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) Hugging Face
1 1 (4.76%) LangChain
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) SOAP
1 1 (4.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Motion Graphics
1 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
1 5 (23.81%) Social Media
2 4 (19.05%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (9.52%) Animation
3 2 (9.52%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (9.52%) Photography
3 2 (9.52%) Video Editing
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (4.76%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Reinsurance
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (28.57%) Visual Effects
3 5 (23.81%) Project Management
3 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (23.81%) Workflow
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Customer Experience
4 4 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Storytelling
5 3 (14.29%) Budget Management
5 3 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Logistics
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Apple
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Dell
2 1 (4.76%) Facebook
2 1 (4.76%) Instagram
2 1 (4.76%) Isilon
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.76%) QNAP
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Workday