Animation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Animation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 656 647
Rank change year-on-year +162 -9 +60
Permanent jobs citing Animation 91 117 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.46% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6 84 21
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,060 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,563 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +13.92%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £40,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +56.25% -30.43% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,666 25,608 23,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.39% 31.43% 42.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,081 15,603 10,766
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Animation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Animation in the UK excluding London

Animation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Animation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Animation in the UK excluding London

Animation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Animation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Animation in the UK excluding London

Animation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Animation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
South East +118 36 £37,500 -11.76% 79
East of England +39 26 - - 39
Midlands +98 12 £52,500 +66.67% 73
North of England +32 11 £77,500 +106.67% 99
West Midlands +77 9 £52,500 +65.35% 47
North West +10 7 £77,500 +106.67% 49
South West +97 6 - - 32
Yorkshire +47 3 - - 40
East Midlands +46 3 £45,000 +50.00% 26
North East +49 1 - - 10
Animation
UK

Animation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.40%) CMS
1 4 (4.40%) WordPress
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Photoshop
2 9 (9.89%) Adobe Premiere
3 8 (8.79%) Adobe After Effects
4 6 (6.59%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (5.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (5.49%) InDesign
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (3.30%) Adobe XD
7 3 (3.30%) Sketch
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (1.10%) Blender
9 1 (1.10%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (1.10%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.79%) Figma
2 2 (2.20%) Miro
3 1 (1.10%) AWS
3 1 (1.10%) Veeva
3 1 (1.10%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 65 (71.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.10%) gulp
2 1 (1.10%) PostCSS
2 1 (1.10%) rollup.js
2 1 (1.10%) Subversion
2 1 (1.10%) Vite
General
1 68 (74.73%) Games
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Automotive
3 5 (5.49%) Finance
4 4 (4.40%) Marketing
5 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.20%) Multimedia
5 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Advertising
6 1 (1.10%) iGaming
6 1 (1.10%) Legal
6 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (75.82%) Senior
2 10 (10.99%) Designer
3 5 (5.49%) Developer
3 5 (5.49%) Lead
4 4 (4.40%) Digital Designer
5 3 (3.30%) Creative Designer
5 3 (3.30%) Junior
5 3 (3.30%) Junior Designer
5 3 (3.30%) Junior UI/UX Designer
5 3 (3.30%) Junior UX Designer
5 3 (3.30%) UI Designer
5 3 (3.30%) UI/UX Designer
5 3 (3.30%) UX Designer
6 2 (2.20%) Content Designer
6 2 (2.20%) Digital Content Designer
6 2 (2.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (2.20%) Lead Developer
6 2 (2.20%) Lead iOS Developer
6 2 (2.20%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (2.20%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (72.53%) WebGL
2 65 (71.43%) GraphQL
2 65 (71.43%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 10 (10.99%) HTML
4 7 (7.69%) HTML5
5 5 (5.49%) CSS
6 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.20%) Core Animation
6 2 (2.20%) Core Data
6 2 (2.20%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (2.20%) RESTful
6 2 (2.20%) Sass
6 2 (2.20%) UIKit
7 1 (1.10%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.10%) CSS3
7 1 (1.10%) GreenSock GSAP
7 1 (1.10%) Pixi.js
7 1 (1.10%) React
7 1 (1.10%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Photography
2 6 (6.59%) Digital Media
2 6 (6.59%) Graphic Design
2 6 (6.59%) Video Editing
3 5 (5.49%) Social Media
4 4 (4.40%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (4.40%) Motion Graphics
4 4 (4.40%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (3.30%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.30%) Podcast
6 1 (1.10%) FMCG
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Android
1 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (75.82%) Artificial Intelligence
1 69 (75.82%) Storytelling
2 68 (74.73%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (73.63%) 3D Animation
4 66 (72.53%) Visual Effects
5 65 (71.43%) Prototyping
5 65 (71.43%) Rapid Prototyping
6 7 (7.69%) User Experience
6 7 (7.69%) Wireframes
7 5 (5.49%) Digital Strategy
7 5 (5.49%) Front End Development
7 5 (5.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 5 (5.49%) UX Design
8 4 (4.40%) Content Management
8 4 (4.40%) Storyboarding
9 3 (3.30%) Agile
9 3 (3.30%) Design Thinking
9 3 (3.30%) Resource Allocation
9 3 (3.30%) Strategic Planning
9 3 (3.30%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (71.43%) HLSL
2 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.20%) C#
3 2 (2.20%) Swift
3 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Adobe
2 4 (4.40%) Google
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Twitter
2 4 (4.40%) YouTube
3 2 (2.20%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.10%) Rollbar
4 1 (1.10%) Sony