Animation
UK

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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 725 799 858
Rank change year-on-year +74 +59 -137
Permanent jobs citing Animation 171 171 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.38% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 127 90 84
10th Percentile £27,300 £36,700 £30,560
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,063 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,235 £55,250 £46,425
Median % change year-on-year -25.37% +19.01% -7.15%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £59,323
90th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £87,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +25.00% -28.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Animation is in the General and Transferable 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
England +117 171 £41,235 -25.03% 59
UK excluding London +32 115 £37,500 -16.67% 32
London +118 56 £53,500 -6.96% 30
North of England +98 49 £37,500 -18.48% 9
Work from Home +92 48 £55,000 -8.33% 24
North West +40 29 £37,500 -25.00% 5
East of England -19 27 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire +110 18 £28,000 -33.33% 4
South West +8 16 £32,500 -27.78% 2
Midlands +6 12 £30,750 -12.14% 6
South East +29 11 £57,500 +27.78% 10
East Midlands - 9 £30,000 - 1
West Midlands +15 3 £31,500 -10.00% 5
North East - 2 £30,000 -

Animation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (7.02%) Apache
1 12 (7.02%) WordPress
2 4 (2.34%) CMS
3 2 (1.17%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.58%) Drupal
Applications
1 39 (22.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 31 (18.13%) Adobe After Effects
3 29 (16.96%) Photoshop
4 20 (11.70%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (9.94%) Blender
6 16 (9.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
8 13 (7.60%) Adobe Premiere
9 11 (6.43%) CINEMA 4D
10 9 (5.26%) Adobe Captivate
11 8 (4.68%) InDesign
11 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
12 7 (4.09%) Maya
12 7 (4.09%) Sketch
13 5 (2.92%) Adobe XD
13 5 (2.92%) Houdini
14 4 (2.34%) ZBrush
15 3 (1.75%) 3ds Max
15 3 (1.75%) AutoCAD
16 2 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.04%) Figma
2 11 (6.43%) AWS
3 5 (2.92%) AWS IoT
4 4 (2.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (1.75%) SaaS
6 2 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.17%) Azure
6 2 (1.17%) GitHub
6 2 (1.17%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.17%) MailChimp
6 2 (1.17%) npm
7 1 (0.58%) Canva
7 1 (0.58%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.26%) MySQL
2 5 (2.92%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (11.70%) Git
2 8 (4.68%) Subversion
3 7 (4.09%) JIRA
4 6 (3.51%) gulp
4 6 (3.51%) PostCSS
4 6 (3.51%) rollup.js
4 6 (3.51%) Vite
5 5 (2.92%) Xcode
6 1 (0.58%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.58%) fastlane
General
1 53 (30.99%) Marketing
2 49 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 36 (21.05%) Games
4 30 (17.54%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.60%) Retail
6 9 (5.26%) Advertising
7 6 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.92%) Finance
8 5 (2.92%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.75%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.17%) Aviation
10 2 (1.17%) Electronics
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.58%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Local Government
11 1 (0.58%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (33.92%) Designer
2 46 (26.90%) Developer
3 13 (7.60%) Graphic Designer
3 13 (7.60%) Head of Design
3 13 (7.60%) Senior
4 11 (6.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (6.43%) Project Manager
5 10 (5.85%) iOS Developer
6 9 (5.26%) Digital Designer
6 9 (5.26%) Instructional Designer
6 9 (5.26%) PHP Developer
7 8 (4.68%) 3D Artist
7 8 (4.68%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.09%) PHP Web Developer
8 7 (4.09%) Web Developer
9 6 (3.51%) Animator
9 6 (3.51%) Author
9 6 (3.51%) Motion Graphics Designer
9 6 (3.51%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (3.51%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.15%) HTML
2 28 (16.37%) CSS
3 24 (14.04%) HTML5
4 15 (8.77%) WebGL
5 13 (7.60%) React
5 13 (7.60%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 11 (6.43%) Core Animation
6 11 (6.43%) Core Data
7 10 (5.85%) Tailwind CSS
8 9 (5.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 8 (4.68%) CSS3
9 8 (4.68%) RESTful
9 8 (4.68%) Sass
10 7 (4.09%) jQuery
10 7 (4.09%) LAMP
10 7 (4.09%) SVG
11 6 (3.51%) GreenSock GSAP
11 6 (3.51%) HTML5 Canvas
11 6 (3.51%) Pixi.js
11 6 (3.51%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.79%) Graphic Design
2 20 (11.70%) Motion Graphics
2 20 (11.70%) Social Media
3 14 (8.19%) Video Editing
4 13 (7.60%) e-Learning
5 11 (6.43%) 3D Graphics
6 9 (5.26%) Augmented Reality
6 9 (5.26%) SCORM
7 8 (4.68%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.09%) Blog
8 7 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.09%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (2.92%) Digital Media
9 5 (2.92%) FMCG
9 5 (2.92%) IoT
10 4 (2.34%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.34%) Mobile Games
10 4 (2.34%) Online Gambling
10 4 (2.34%) Photography
10 4 (2.34%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.43%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.09%) Linux
3 4 (2.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.88%) User Experience
2 29 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (14.04%) Typography
4 18 (10.53%) 3D Modelling
5 16 (9.36%) Visualisation
6 15 (8.77%) Texturing
6 15 (8.77%) UX Design
7 14 (8.19%) B2B
7 14 (8.19%) Web Design
8 13 (7.60%) E-Commerce
8 13 (7.60%) Storyboarding
9 12 (7.02%) Agile
10 11 (6.43%) Computer Science
10 11 (6.43%) Front End Development
10 11 (6.43%) iOS Development
10 11 (6.43%) Mentoring
10 11 (6.43%) Responsive Web Design
11 10 (5.85%) CAD
12 9 (5.26%) Project Management
12 9 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.37%) JavaScript
2 15 (8.77%) PHP
3 14 (8.19%) RPG
4 12 (7.02%) Kotlin
5 11 (6.43%) Swift
6 9 (5.26%) Python
7 8 (4.68%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.09%) Java
8 7 (4.09%) R
9 1 (0.58%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.58%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (26.32%) Degree
2 9 (5.26%) CIPD
3 6 (3.51%) CTC Cleared
3 6 (3.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.34%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.19%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.26%) GDPR
3 6 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.17%) Docker
Vendors
1 54 (31.58%) Adobe
2 18 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.85%) Apple
4 5 (2.92%) Google
4 5 (2.92%) Mapbox
5 3 (1.75%) Instagram
5 3 (1.75%) Spotify
6 2 (1.17%) TikTok
7 1 (0.58%) Dell
7 1 (0.58%) Facebook
7 1 (0.58%) Intel
7 1 (0.58%) Progress
7 1 (0.58%) Twitter