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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 741 815 813
Rank change year-on-year +74 -2 -82
Permanent jobs citing Animation 167 145 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.34% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 123 81 85
10th Percentile £27,100 £36,750 £31,959
25th Percentile £31,875 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,235 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £59,097
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 35,172 42,459 77,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.19% 42.66% 47.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,224 34,014
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,435 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,625
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 £109,865 £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 19 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 19 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 +101 167 £41,235 -28.29% 68
UK excluding London +30 112 £37,500 -16.67% 38
London +94 55 £51,000 -11.30% 37
North of England +90 48 £37,500 -10.71% 14
Work from Home +60 46 £55,000 -8.33% 36
North West +30 29 £37,500 -25.00% 9
East of England -18 27 £52,500 -
Yorkshire +97 17 £28,000 -33.33% 5
South West +1 17 £32,500 -27.78% 1
Midlands +2 12 £30,750 -12.14% 9
East Midlands - 9 £30,000 - 1
South East -6 8 £42,500 -5.56% 12
West Midlands +6 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 12 (7.19%) Apache
1 12 (7.19%) WordPress
2 4 (2.40%) CMS
3 2 (1.20%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Drupal
Applications
1 39 (23.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 30 (17.96%) Adobe After Effects
3 29 (17.37%) Photoshop
4 21 (12.57%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (10.18%) Blender
6 16 (9.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (8.98%) Microsoft Office
8 12 (7.19%) Adobe Premiere
9 11 (6.59%) CINEMA 4D
10 9 (5.39%) Adobe Captivate
11 8 (4.79%) InDesign
11 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
12 7 (4.19%) Maya
13 6 (3.59%) Sketch
14 5 (2.99%) Adobe XD
14 5 (2.99%) Houdini
15 4 (2.40%) ZBrush
16 3 (1.80%) 3ds Max
16 3 (1.80%) AutoCAD
17 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.77%) Figma
2 11 (6.59%) AWS
3 5 (2.99%) AWS IoT
4 4 (2.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.20%) Azure
5 2 (1.20%) GitHub
5 2 (1.20%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.20%) MailChimp
5 2 (1.20%) npm
5 2 (1.20%) SaaS
6 1 (0.60%) Canva
6 1 (0.60%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) MySQL
2 5 (2.99%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (10.78%) Git
2 7 (4.19%) JIRA
2 7 (4.19%) Subversion
3 5 (2.99%) Xcode
4 3 (1.80%) gulp
4 3 (1.80%) PostCSS
4 3 (1.80%) rollup.js
4 3 (1.80%) Vite
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.60%) fastlane
General
1 53 (31.74%) Marketing
2 47 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 34 (20.36%) Games
4 30 (17.96%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.78%) Retail
6 8 (4.79%) Advertising
7 7 (4.19%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.99%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.40%) Finance
10 3 (1.80%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Aviation
11 2 (1.20%) Electronics
12 1 (0.60%) iGaming
12 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.60%) Law
12 1 (0.60%) Legal
12 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (33.53%) Designer
2 42 (25.15%) Developer
3 13 (7.78%) Graphic Designer
3 13 (7.78%) Head of Design
4 12 (7.19%) Senior
5 11 (6.59%) Project Manager
6 9 (5.39%) Digital Designer
6 9 (5.39%) Instructional Designer
6 9 (5.39%) iOS Developer
6 9 (5.39%) PHP Developer
7 8 (4.79%) 3D Artist
7 8 (4.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (4.19%) PHP Web Developer
8 7 (4.19%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.19%) Web Developer
9 6 (3.59%) Author
9 6 (3.59%) Motion Graphics Designer
9 6 (3.59%) Technical Author
10 5 (2.99%) 3D Designer
10 5 (2.99%) 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (23.35%) HTML
2 24 (14.37%) CSS
3 20 (11.98%) HTML5
4 13 (7.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 12 (7.19%) React
5 12 (7.19%) WebGL
6 10 (5.99%) Core Animation
6 10 (5.99%) Core Data
7 8 (4.79%) RESTful
8 7 (4.19%) CSS3
8 7 (4.19%) jQuery
8 7 (4.19%) LAMP
8 7 (4.19%) SVG
8 7 (4.19%) Tailwind CSS
8 7 (4.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 6 (3.59%) GreenSock GSAP
9 6 (3.59%) Unreal Engine
10 5 (2.99%) Apache Cordova
10 5 (2.99%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.99%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Graphic Design
2 20 (11.98%) Social Media
3 19 (11.38%) Motion Graphics
4 13 (7.78%) e-Learning
4 13 (7.78%) Video Editing
5 11 (6.59%) 3D Graphics
6 9 (5.39%) SCORM
7 8 (4.79%) Augmented Reality
7 8 (4.79%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.19%) Blog
8 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.19%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (2.99%) Digital Media
9 5 (2.99%) FMCG
9 5 (2.99%) IoT
10 4 (2.40%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.40%) Mobile Games
10 4 (2.40%) Online Gambling
10 4 (2.40%) Photography
10 4 (2.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.99%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.19%) Linux
3 4 (2.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.16%) User Experience
2 28 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (14.37%) Typography
4 18 (10.78%) 3D Modelling
5 15 (8.98%) Texturing
5 15 (8.98%) UX Design
5 15 (8.98%) Visualisation
6 14 (8.38%) B2B
6 14 (8.38%) Web Design
7 13 (7.78%) E-Commerce
7 13 (7.78%) Storyboarding
8 11 (6.59%) Agile
9 10 (5.99%) CAD
9 10 (5.99%) Computer Science
9 10 (5.99%) iOS Development
9 10 (5.99%) Mentoring
10 9 (5.39%) Front End Development
10 9 (5.39%) Infographics
10 9 (5.39%) Responsive Web Design
10 9 (5.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.37%) JavaScript
2 15 (8.98%) PHP
3 14 (8.38%) RPG
4 12 (7.19%) Kotlin
5 10 (5.99%) Python
5 10 (5.99%) Swift
6 7 (4.19%) Java
6 7 (4.19%) R
7 5 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.20%) C++
8 2 (1.20%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (26.35%) Degree
2 9 (5.39%) CIPD
3 6 (3.59%) CTC Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.78%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.39%) GDPR
3 6 (3.59%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) Docker
Vendors
1 54 (32.34%) Adobe
2 18 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.39%) Apple
4 5 (2.99%) Google
4 5 (2.99%) Mapbox
5 3 (1.80%) Instagram
6 2 (1.20%) Spotify
6 2 (1.20%) TikTok
7 1 (0.60%) Dell
7 1 (0.60%) Facebook
7 1 (0.60%) Intel
7 1 (0.60%) Progress
7 1 (0.60%) Twitter