Animation Job Trends in London

Animation
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 365 429
Rank change year-on-year -40 +64 +73
Permanent jobs citing Animation 13 26 47
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.057% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.47% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 31
10th Percentile £49,800 £31,400 £32,500
25th Percentile - £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £53,250 £70,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £62,750 £74,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.58% -19.15%

All Generic Skills
London

Animation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,859 5,535 8,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.32% 45.17% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,756 3,262 5,569
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +0.65% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £136,250 £137,500
England median annual salary £59,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.39% -0.87% -11.54%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Animation job vacancy trend in London

Animation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Animation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Animation

Animation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Animation in London over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Animation in London

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (15.38%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe After Effects
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
1 1 (7.69%) Contentful
1 1 (7.69%) Figma
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (7.69%) Vercel
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Claude Code
1 1 (7.69%) Gradle
1 1 (7.69%) Xcode
General
1 8 (61.54%) Games
2 2 (15.38%) Advertising
2 2 (15.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) 2D Animator
1 8 (61.54%) Animator
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Producer
4 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.69%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Graphic Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Next.js
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS3
2 1 (7.69%) D3.js
2 1 (7.69%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5
2 1 (7.69%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (7.69%) React Native
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (7.69%) TanStack
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Graphic Design
1 1 (7.69%) Midjourney
1 1 (7.69%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (7.69%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Agile
1 2 (15.38%) AI
1 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
1 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
1 2 (15.38%) User Experience
1 2 (15.38%) UX Design
2 1 (7.69%) Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
2 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
2 1 (7.69%) Content Management
2 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
2 1 (7.69%) Infographics
2 1 (7.69%) Monorepo
2 1 (7.69%) Observability
2 1 (7.69%) People Management
2 1 (7.69%) Push Notifications
2 1 (7.69%) Typography
2 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe