Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 30 July 2021

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Animation in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Animation over the 6 months to 30 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Animation
UK
6 months to
30 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 742 660 906
Rank change year-on-year -82 +246 +134
Permanent jobs citing Animation 253 135 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.55% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 130 89 117
10th Percentile £34,875 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,000 £73,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +26.76% -13.41%

Animation is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44,468 24,346 50,618
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.15% 35.49% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 26,993 19,391 38,750
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,986 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,994
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.79% +0.94%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

Animation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Animation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Animation in the UK

Animation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Animation.

Salary trend for Animation in the UK

Animation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Animation over the 6 months to 30 July 2021.

Salary histogram for Animation in the UK

Animation
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Animation within the UK over the 6 months to 30 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -54 244 £52,500 - 58
London -84 129 £52,500 -4.55% 30
UK excluding London -85 115 £52,500 +16.67% 31
Work from Home -200 68 £50,000 +108.33% 6
Midlands -35 39 £60,000 -7.69% 4
West Midlands -45 32 £62,500 -3.85% 4
North of England -55 31 £50,000 -9.09% 12
North West -26 28 £51,250 -6.82% 7
South East -88 20 £50,000 +66.67% 5
South West -62 17 £33,750 -15.63% 5
East of England -45 7 £70,000 +14.29% 1
East Midlands - 7 £37,500 -
Yorkshire -65 3 £38,750 - 4
Scotland -72 3 £65,000 - 3

For the 6 months to 30 July 2021, IT jobs citing Animation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Animation.

1 90 (35.57%) Agile Software Development
2 85 (33.60%) Games
3 81 (32.02%) Social Skills
4 74 (29.25%) CSS
5 70 (27.67%) HTML
6 63 (24.90%) User Experience
7 59 (23.32%) React
7 59 (23.32%) JavaScript
8 51 (20.16%) Mobile App
9 50 (19.76%) CMS
10 48 (18.97%) Git (software)
11 44 (17.39%) Degree
11 44 (17.39%) Vue.js
12 43 (17.00%) C++
13 42 (16.60%) Marketing
13 42 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (15.42%) WordPress
15 37 (14.62%) Artificial Intelligence
15 37 (14.62%) Self-Motivation
16 35 (13.83%) Front End Development
17 33 (13.04%) Photoshop
17 33 (13.04%) Sketch
18 32 (12.65%) Web Development
18 32 (12.65%) Virtual Team
18 32 (12.65%) CSS3
19 31 (12.25%) Interaction Design
19 31 (12.25%) Adobe
20 29 (11.46%) Node.js
20 29 (11.46%) Unreal Engine
21 25 (9.88%) Project Management

Animation
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 50 (19.76%) CMS
2 39 (15.42%) WordPress
3 23 (9.09%) Drupal
4 9 (3.56%) Headless CMS
5 7 (2.77%) Joomla!
6 5 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.98%) Umbraco
7 3 (1.19%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.79%) Apache
8 2 (0.79%) nginx
9 1 (0.40%) FormScape
9 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (13.04%) Photoshop
1 33 (13.04%) Sketch
2 24 (9.49%) Maya
3 22 (8.70%) Adobe XD
3 22 (8.70%) Figma
4 17 (6.72%) Adobe After Effects
5 16 (6.32%) Adobe Illustrator
5 16 (6.32%) InVision
6 11 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 10 (3.95%) Blender
7 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
7 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
7 10 (3.95%) Zeplin
8 7 (2.77%) 3ds Max
8 7 (2.77%) CINEMA 4D
8 7 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (2.77%) MS Visio
8 7 (2.77%) ZBrush
9 5 (1.98%) MotionBuilder
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
2 1 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.11%) npm
2 14 (5.53%) Yarn
3 13 (5.14%) AWS
4 10 (3.95%) Azure
4 10 (3.95%) GitHub
5 9 (3.56%) Firebase
6 7 (2.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 7 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.77%) SaaS
6 7 (2.77%) Serverless
6 7 (2.77%) Veeva
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon Alexa
7 5 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.98%) Azure Functions
7 5 (1.98%) Dialogflow
7 5 (1.98%) GCP
7 5 (1.98%) Siri
7 5 (1.98%) Twilio
8 4 (1.58%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (0.79%) Samsung Pay
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) Broadband
2 5 (1.98%) Internet
3 3 (1.19%) Skype
4 2 (0.79%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.79%) Extranet
4 2 (0.79%) NFC
4 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) DNS
5 1 (0.40%) NAS
5 1 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.91%) MySQL
2 13 (5.14%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.19%) MariaDB
3 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
4 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (18.97%) Git (software)
2 23 (9.09%) gulp
3 18 (7.11%) Grunt
4 17 (6.72%) webpack
5 12 (4.74%) JIRA
6 10 (3.95%) PostCSS
7 5 (1.98%) Balsamiq
8 4 (1.58%) GitLab
8 4 (1.58%) PHPUnit
9 3 (1.19%) Babel
9 3 (1.19%) Mocha
9 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.79%) fastlane
10 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.40%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 85 (33.60%) Games
2 81 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.60%) Marketing
4 23 (9.09%) Finance
5 18 (7.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.35%) Advertising
7 11 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.16%) Automotive
8 8 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.77%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.77%) German Language
9 7 (2.77%) Humanities
10 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.98%) Retail
11 4 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Front Office
12 3 (1.19%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (27.67%) Developer
2 69 (27.27%) Designer
3 35 (13.83%) UI Designer
4 21 (8.30%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 21 (8.30%) Programmer
5 14 (5.53%) Drupal Developer
5 14 (5.53%) React Developer
6 13 (5.14%) Web Developer
7 12 (4.74%) C++ Developer
7 12 (4.74%) Digital Designer
8 10 (3.95%) Gameplay Programmer
8 10 (3.95%) UI Engineer
9 9 (3.56%) Digital Project Manager
9 9 (3.56%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.16%) Animator
10 8 (3.16%) Creative Developer
10 8 (3.16%) Creative Web Developer
10 8 (3.16%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.16%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.16%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (29.25%) CSS
2 70 (27.67%) HTML
3 59 (23.32%) React
4 44 (17.39%) Vue.js
5 32 (12.65%) CSS3
6 29 (11.46%) Node.js
6 29 (11.46%) Unreal Engine
7 22 (8.70%) HTML5
8 21 (8.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 20 (7.91%) GreenSock GSAP
10 19 (7.51%) Sass
11 18 (7.11%) Laravel
12 17 (6.72%) WebGL
13 16 (6.32%) React Native
14 15 (5.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 14 (5.53%) AngularJS
16 13 (5.14%) Middleware
16 13 (5.14%) SVG
17 12 (4.74%) Tailwind CSS
18 11 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.90%) User Experience
2 51 (20.16%) Mobile App
3 37 (14.62%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (12.65%) Virtual Team
5 18 (7.11%) Social Media
6 16 (6.32%) Algorithms
7 13 (5.14%) Data Structures
7 13 (5.14%) Motion Graphics
8 9 (3.56%) 3D Graphics
9 8 (3.16%) Graphic Design
10 7 (2.77%) BBC
10 7 (2.77%) Client/Server
10 7 (2.77%) STB
11 6 (2.37%) Photography
12 4 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.58%) Learning Management System
12 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.58%) Xbox
13 3 (1.19%) PlayStation
13 3 (1.19%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.35%) Linux
1 11 (4.35%) Windows
2 7 (2.77%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.58%) Android
3 4 (1.58%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) CentOS
4 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.57%) Agile Software Development
2 42 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (14.62%) Artificial Intelligence
4 35 (13.83%) Front End Development
5 32 (12.65%) Web Development
6 31 (12.25%) Interaction Design
7 25 (9.88%) Computer Science
7 25 (9.88%) Project Management
8 24 (9.49%) Mathematics
9 22 (8.70%) Digital Marketing
10 21 (8.30%) Physics
10 21 (8.30%) Prototyping
10 21 (8.30%) Workflow
11 20 (7.91%) Decision-Making
11 20 (7.91%) Multithreading
11 20 (7.91%) Visual Effects
12 18 (7.11%) Gamification
12 18 (7.11%) Mobile First
13 17 (6.72%) Game Development
14 16 (6.32%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.32%) JavaScript
2 43 (17.00%) C++
3 25 (9.88%) C#
4 23 (9.09%) PHP
5 19 (7.51%) Python
6 17 (6.72%) C
7 14 (5.53%) ES6
8 11 (4.35%) Java
9 6 (2.37%) Apple Swift
9 6 (2.37%) SQL
10 5 (1.98%) Objective-C
10 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) Elixir
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (17.39%) Degree
2 22 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.77%) PhD
4 2 (0.79%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.32%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.37%) QA
3 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.16%) Docker
2 4 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.95%) Terraform
2 6 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.19%) Packer
5 1 (0.40%) FlexNet
Vendors
1 31 (12.25%) Adobe
2 18 (7.11%) Google
3 14 (5.53%) Apple
4 11 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.35%) Netlify
5 6 (2.37%) Huawei
5 6 (2.37%) Perforce
6 5 (1.98%) DoubleClick
6 5 (1.98%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.58%) Intel
7 4 (1.58%) VMware
8 3 (1.19%) Foundry
9 2 (0.79%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.79%) Samsung
9 2 (0.79%) Spotify
9 2 (0.79%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.40%) SAP
63 Animation job vacancies Nationwide