Virtual Reality Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality (VR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Reality in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Reality over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 417 484
Rank change year-on-year +26 +67 -45
Contract jobs citing Virtual Reality 10 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.057% 0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £311 £316 £310
25th Percentile £330 £324 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £403 £584 £459
90th Percentile £413 £648 £488
UK median daily rate £414 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +0.36% -13.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £53.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £56.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile £68.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £26.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +126.42% -51.38% +10.38%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Reality falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Virtual Reality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Reality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Reality in the UK excluding London

Virtual Reality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Reality within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +20 5 £394 +5.00% 9
East of England +8 5 £315 - 9
Yorkshire +16 3 - - 2
North East - 2 £394 - 6
Virtual Reality
UK

Virtual Reality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (30.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 3 (30.00%) Blender
1 3 (30.00%) Maya
1 3 (30.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Electronics
1 4 (40.00%) Wearables
2 3 (30.00%) Games
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Design Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) IC Design Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Design Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Digital IC Design Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Digital IC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analogue Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analogue IC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Audio Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Augmented Reality
2 4 (40.00%) Smartphone
3 3 (30.00%) Verilog
4 2 (20.00%) ASIC
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Electronic Design Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) IC Design
3 3 (30.00%) Interaction Design
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) Design for Test
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SystemVerilog
1 3 (30.00%) Tcl
2 2 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (30.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) Cadence
2 2 (20.00%) Siemens
3 1 (10.00%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (10.00%) Synopsys