Visual Effects Jobs in the West Midlands

Visual Effects (VFX)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Visual Effects skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Visual Effects over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 255 260
Rank change year-on-year +66 +5 -
Permanent jobs citing Visual Effects 4 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.097% 0.026% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.032% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £32,300 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £34,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £39,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £44,625 -
90th Percentile - £47,100 -
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Visual Effects falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Visual Effects
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Visual Effects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Effects in the West Midlands

Visual Effects
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Effects in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Visual Effects in the West Midlands

Visual Effects
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Effects within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Shropshire - 2 - - 4
Coventry -5 1 £47,500 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 - - 2
Visual Effects
England

Visual Effects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Premiere
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Producer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) WebGL
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Animation
2 1 (25.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (25.00%) Photography
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Video Editing
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) 3D Animation
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Post-Production
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) HLSL
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Sony