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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 807 850
Rank change year-on-year +63 +43 -132
Permanent jobs citing Animation 170 158 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.36% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 125 86 80
10th Percentile £27,200 £36,875 £30,265
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,235 £55,000 £48,925
Median % change year-on-year -25.03% +12.42% -2.15%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £57,899
90th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -30.00%

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 34,939 44,188 74,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.71% 47.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,008 23,913 34,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,001 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,056
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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +119 170 £41,235 -25.03% 70
UK excluding London +13 113 £37,500 -16.67% 39
London +121 57 £52,000 -9.57% 30
North of England +90 48 £37,500 -10.71% 12
Work from Home +70 46 £55,000 -8.33% 36
North West +41 29 £37,500 -25.00% 8
East of England -10 27 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire +100 17 £28,000 -33.33% 4
South West -16 17 £32,500 -27.78% 5
Midlands +15 12 £30,750 -12.14% 13
South East +26 9 £51,250 +13.89% 6
East Midlands - 9 £30,000 - 1
West Midlands +9 3 £31,500 -10.00% 12
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 (7.06%) Apache
1 12 (7.06%) WordPress
2 4 (2.35%) CMS
3 2 (1.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Drupal
Applications
1 39 (22.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 31 (18.24%) Adobe After Effects
3 30 (17.65%) Photoshop
4 21 (12.35%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (10.00%) Blender
6 16 (9.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
8 13 (7.65%) Adobe Premiere
9 11 (6.47%) CINEMA 4D
10 9 (5.29%) Adobe Captivate
11 8 (4.71%) InDesign
11 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
12 7 (4.12%) Maya
12 7 (4.12%) Sketch
13 5 (2.94%) Adobe XD
13 5 (2.94%) Houdini
14 4 (2.35%) ZBrush
15 3 (1.76%) 3ds Max
15 3 (1.76%) AutoCAD
16 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.12%) Figma
2 11 (6.47%) AWS
3 5 (2.94%) AWS IoT
4 4 (2.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (1.76%) SaaS
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.18%) Azure
6 2 (1.18%) GitHub
6 2 (1.18%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.18%) MailChimp
6 2 (1.18%) npm
7 1 (0.59%) Canva
7 1 (0.59%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.29%) MySQL
2 5 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (11.18%) Git
2 8 (4.71%) Subversion
3 7 (4.12%) JIRA
4 5 (2.94%) Xcode
5 4 (2.35%) gulp
5 4 (2.35%) PostCSS
5 4 (2.35%) rollup.js
5 4 (2.35%) Vite
6 1 (0.59%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.59%) fastlane
General
1 53 (31.18%) Marketing
2 48 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 36 (21.18%) Games
4 30 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.65%) Retail
6 9 (5.29%) Advertising
7 7 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.94%) Finance
8 5 (2.94%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.76%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.18%) Aviation
10 2 (1.18%) Electronics
11 1 (0.59%) iGaming
11 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.59%) Law
11 1 (0.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (34.12%) Designer
2 43 (25.29%) Developer
3 13 (7.65%) Graphic Designer
3 13 (7.65%) Head of Design
3 13 (7.65%) Senior
4 11 (6.47%) Project Manager
5 9 (5.29%) Digital Designer
5 9 (5.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (5.29%) Instructional Designer
5 9 (5.29%) iOS Developer
5 9 (5.29%) PHP Developer
6 8 (4.71%) 3D Artist
6 8 (4.71%) Senior Developer
7 7 (4.12%) PHP Web Developer
7 7 (4.12%) Web Developer
8 6 (3.53%) Animator
8 6 (3.53%) Author
8 6 (3.53%) Motion Graphics Designer
8 6 (3.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 6 (3.53%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.12%) HTML
2 26 (15.29%) CSS
3 22 (12.94%) HTML5
4 13 (7.65%) React
4 13 (7.65%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 13 (7.65%) WebGL
5 10 (5.88%) Core Animation
5 10 (5.88%) Core Data
6 8 (4.71%) CSS3
6 8 (4.71%) RESTful
6 8 (4.71%) Tailwind CSS
7 7 (4.12%) jQuery
7 7 (4.12%) LAMP
7 7 (4.12%) SVG
7 7 (4.12%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 6 (3.53%) GreenSock GSAP
8 6 (3.53%) Sass
8 6 (3.53%) Unreal Engine
9 5 (2.94%) deck.gl
9 5 (2.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.47%) Graphic Design
2 20 (11.76%) Motion Graphics
2 20 (11.76%) Social Media
3 14 (8.24%) Video Editing
4 13 (7.65%) e-Learning
5 11 (6.47%) 3D Graphics
6 9 (5.29%) Augmented Reality
6 9 (5.29%) SCORM
7 8 (4.71%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.12%) Blog
8 7 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.12%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (2.94%) Digital Media
9 5 (2.94%) FMCG
9 5 (2.94%) IoT
10 4 (2.35%) Mobile Games
10 4 (2.35%) Online Gambling
10 4 (2.35%) Photography
10 4 (2.35%) PropTech
10 4 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.12%) Linux
3 4 (2.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.00%) User Experience
2 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (14.71%) Typography
4 18 (10.59%) 3D Modelling
5 16 (9.41%) UX Design
5 16 (9.41%) Visualisation
6 15 (8.82%) Texturing
7 14 (8.24%) B2B
7 14 (8.24%) Web Design
8 13 (7.65%) E-Commerce
8 13 (7.65%) Storyboarding
9 12 (7.06%) Agile
10 11 (6.47%) Mentoring
11 10 (5.88%) CAD
11 10 (5.88%) Computer Science
11 10 (5.88%) iOS Development
12 9 (5.29%) Front End Development
12 9 (5.29%) Project Management
12 9 (5.29%) Test Automation
12 9 (5.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.29%) JavaScript
2 15 (8.82%) PHP
3 14 (8.24%) RPG
4 12 (7.06%) Kotlin
5 10 (5.88%) Python
5 10 (5.88%) Swift
6 7 (4.12%) Java
6 7 (4.12%) R
7 6 (3.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.18%) C++
8 2 (1.18%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (26.47%) Degree
2 9 (5.29%) CIPD
3 6 (3.53%) CTC Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.24%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.29%) GDPR
3 6 (3.53%) QA
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
Vendors
1 54 (31.76%) Adobe
2 18 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.88%) Apple
4 5 (2.94%) Google
4 5 (2.94%) Mapbox
5 3 (1.76%) Instagram
5 3 (1.76%) Spotify
6 2 (1.18%) TikTok
7 1 (0.59%) Dell
7 1 (0.59%) Facebook
7 1 (0.59%) Intel
7 1 (0.59%) Progress
7 1 (0.59%) Twitter