Animation Jobs

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 cited Animation over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 800 822
Rank change year-on-year +49 +22 -77
Permanent jobs citing Animation 170 140 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.35% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 123 80 97
10th Percentile £27,100 £36,975 £32,356
25th Percentile £31,875 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,235 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £70,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -22.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Animation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36,747 40,005 83,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 43.07% 48.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23,456 22,223 34,485
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,519 £46,545 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +71 170 £41,235 -28.29% 66
UK excluding London -8 114 £37,500 -16.67% 34
London +83 56 £52,000 -13.33% 31
North of England +63 49 £37,500 -10.71% 9
Work from Home +22 46 £55,000 -8.33% 35
North West +12 29 £37,500 -25.00% 6
East of England -28 28 £52,500 - 4
Yorkshire +87 18 £28,000 -33.33% 3
South West -15 17 £32,500 -27.78% 1
Midlands -25 12 £30,750 -12.14% 10
East Midlands - 9 £30,000 - 2
South East -16 8 £42,500 -5.56% 9
West Midlands -16 3 £31,500 -10.00% 8
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 13 (7.65%) Apache
2 12 (7.06%) WordPress
3 4 (2.35%) CMS
4 2 (1.18%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.59%) Drupal
Applications
1 39 (22.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 31 (18.24%) Adobe After Effects
2 31 (18.24%) Photoshop
3 23 (13.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 17 (10.00%) Blender
5 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (7.65%) Adobe Premiere
7 11 (6.47%) CINEMA 4D
8 9 (5.29%) Adobe Captivate
9 8 (4.71%) InDesign
9 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
10 7 (4.12%) Maya
11 6 (3.53%) Adobe XD
11 6 (3.53%) Sketch
12 5 (2.94%) Houdini
13 4 (2.35%) ZBrush
14 3 (1.76%) 3ds Max
14 3 (1.76%) AutoCAD
15 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.12%) Figma
2 12 (7.06%) AWS
3 6 (3.53%) AWS IoT
4 4 (2.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.18%) Azure
5 2 (1.18%) GitHub
5 2 (1.18%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.18%) MailChimp
5 2 (1.18%) npm
5 2 (1.18%) SaaS
6 1 (0.59%) Canva
6 1 (0.59%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
6 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 18 (10.59%) Git
2 7 (4.12%) JIRA
2 7 (4.12%) Subversion
3 6 (3.53%) Xcode
4 3 (1.76%) gulp
4 3 (1.76%) PostCSS
4 3 (1.76%) rollup.js
4 3 (1.76%) Vite
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.59%) fastlane
General
1 53 (31.18%) Marketing
2 47 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 34 (20.00%) Games
4 29 (17.06%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.65%) Retail
6 8 (4.71%) Advertising
7 7 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.53%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.35%) Finance
10 3 (1.76%) Electronics
10 3 (1.76%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Aviation
11 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.59%) iGaming
12 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.59%) Law
12 1 (0.59%) Legal
12 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (34.12%) Designer
2 43 (25.29%) Developer
3 13 (7.65%) Graphic Designer
4 12 (7.06%) Head of Design
4 12 (7.06%) Senior
5 11 (6.47%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.88%) Digital Designer
6 10 (5.88%) iOS Developer
7 9 (5.29%) Instructional Designer
7 9 (5.29%) PHP Developer
8 8 (4.71%) 3D Artist
8 8 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (4.12%) PHP Web Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Web Developer
10 6 (3.53%) Applications Developer
10 6 (3.53%) Author
10 6 (3.53%) Motion Graphics Designer
10 6 (3.53%) Technical Author
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.94%) HTML
2 24 (14.12%) CSS
3 20 (11.76%) HTML5
4 13 (7.65%) Core Animation
4 13 (7.65%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 12 (7.06%) Core Data
5 12 (7.06%) React
5 12 (7.06%) WebGL
6 11 (6.47%) RESTful
7 7 (4.12%) CSS3
7 7 (4.12%) jQuery
7 7 (4.12%) LAMP
7 7 (4.12%) SVG
7 7 (4.12%) Tailwind CSS
7 7 (4.12%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 6 (3.53%) Apache Cordova
8 6 (3.53%) GreenSock GSAP
8 6 (3.53%) Unreal Engine
9 5 (2.94%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.88%) Graphic Design
2 20 (11.76%) Motion Graphics
2 20 (11.76%) Social Media
3 13 (7.65%) e-Learning
3 13 (7.65%) Video Editing
4 11 (6.47%) 3D Graphics
5 9 (5.29%) SCORM
6 8 (4.71%) Augmented Reality
6 8 (4.71%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.12%) Blog
7 7 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (4.12%) Virtual Reality
8 6 (3.53%) IoT
9 5 (2.94%) Digital Media
9 5 (2.94%) FMCG
10 4 (2.35%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.35%) Mobile Games
10 4 (2.35%) Online Gambling
10 4 (2.35%) Photography
10 4 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.65%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.12%) Linux
3 4 (2.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (19.41%) User Experience
2 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (13.53%) Typography
4 18 (10.59%) 3D Modelling
5 15 (8.82%) Texturing
5 15 (8.82%) UX Design
6 14 (8.24%) B2B
6 14 (8.24%) Visualisation
6 14 (8.24%) Web Design
7 13 (7.65%) Agile
7 13 (7.65%) E-Commerce
7 13 (7.65%) iOS Development
7 13 (7.65%) Storyboarding
8 12 (7.06%) Mentoring
9 11 (6.47%) Computer Science
10 10 (5.88%) CAD
11 9 (5.29%) 3D Animation
11 9 (5.29%) Front End Development
11 9 (5.29%) Project Management
11 9 (5.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.12%) JavaScript
2 15 (8.82%) PHP
3 14 (8.24%) RPG
4 13 (7.65%) Kotlin
5 11 (6.47%) Swift
6 10 (5.88%) Python
7 7 (4.12%) Java
7 7 (4.12%) R
8 5 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.18%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
10 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 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.65%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.29%) GDPR
3 6 (3.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
Vendors
1 54 (31.76%) Adobe
2 18 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.47%) Apple
4 5 (2.94%) Google
4 5 (2.94%) Mapbox
5 3 (1.76%) Instagram
6 2 (1.18%) 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