Animation Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Animation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 180 169
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +76
Permanent jobs citing Animation 3 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.075% 0.11% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.33% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - £47,250
25th Percentile £66,250 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +89.96%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £92,500
90th Percentile - - £100,000
South East median annual salary £25,000 - £71,250
% change year-on-year - - +74.09%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,105 1,228 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.51% 35.09% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 606 533 753
10th Percentile £26,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,911 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,228 £74,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -2.65%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Animation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Animation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Animation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Animation

Animation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Animation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire +20 3 £67,500 - 9
Animation
South East

Animation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) MLOps
1 3 (100.00%) Motion Capture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes