Visual Effects Contracts

Visual Effects (VFX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 673 829
Rank change year-on-year +112 +156 -107
Contract jobs citing Visual Effects 18 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.020% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.022% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile - £260 £170
25th Percentile £288 £285 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £387 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% -3.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £430 £530
90th Percentile £623 £464 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - £295 £394
% change year-on-year - -25.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Visual Effects
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Visual Effects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Effects in the UK

Visual Effects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Effects.

Daily rate trend for Visual Effects in the UK

Visual Effects
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Effects over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Effects in the UK

Visual Effects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Effects.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Effects in the UK

Visual Effects
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Effects within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +105 18 £325 -5.39% 19
Work from Home +115 12 £325 +8.33% 15
London +105 11 £325 -24.42% 10
UK excluding London +51 6 - - 9
South East +14 6 - - 2

Visual Effects
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 4 (22.22%) CMS
1 4 (22.22%) Headless CMS
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Adobe After Effects
1 8 (44.44%) CINEMA 4D
2 6 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (22.22%) 3ds Max
3 4 (22.22%) Blender
3 4 (22.22%) Maya
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Animator
2 4 (22.22%) Graphic Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Lead Designer
2 4 (22.22%) Maya Artist
2 4 (22.22%) Video Editor
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Motion Graphics Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) Graphics Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) React Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) CSS
1 4 (22.22%) Next.js
1 4 (22.22%) Unreal Engine
2 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) HTML5
2 3 (16.67%) React
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.56%) Jest
3 1 (5.56%) Nuxt
3 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Motion Graphics
2 5 (27.78%) Animation
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.56%) Photography
3 1 (5.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Coaching
2 5 (27.78%) Storytelling
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (22.22%) SEO
3 4 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 3 (16.67%) Non-Blocking Code
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 2 (11.11%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 2 (11.11%) Refactoring
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.56%) ITIL
6 1 (5.56%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow