Visual Effects Contracts with Work from Home Options

Visual Effects (VFX)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Visual Effects skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Effects over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 454 623
Rank change year-on-year +118 +169 -128
Contract jobs citing Visual Effects 12 7 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.029% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.032% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile - £264 £283
25th Percentile £288 £285 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £363 £387 £488
90th Percentile £467 £515 £521
UK median daily rate £325 £387 £400
% change year-on-year -16.02% -3.25% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Visual Effects is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Visual Effects
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Effects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Effects trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Effects
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Effects.

Visual Effects daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Effects
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Visual Effects over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Visual Effects daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Effects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 6 (50.00%) CINEMA 4D
2 4 (33.33%) 3ds Max
2 4 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (33.33%) Blender
2 4 (33.33%) Maya
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Multimedia
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Designer
2 4 (33.33%) Maya Artist
3 3 (25.00%) Animator
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Video Editor
4 2 (16.67%) Graphic Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Graphics Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Motion Graphics
2 4 (33.33%) Animation
3 1 (8.33%) Photography
3 1 (8.33%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Storytelling
2 4 (33.33%) Coaching
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (8.33%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.33%) Non-Blocking Code
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (8.33%) Refactoring
4 1 (8.33%) SEO
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe