Visual Effects Contracts

Visual Effects (VFX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Visual Effects skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visual Effects 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 565 687 836
Rank change year-on-year +122 +149 -114
Contract jobs citing Visual Effects 19 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.018% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.020% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 10
10th Percentile - £259 £170
25th Percentile £288 £279 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £409 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% +2.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £430 £530
90th Percentile £623 £481 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - £290 £394
% change year-on-year - -26.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Visual Effects falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 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 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
England +96 19 £325 -16.02% 15
London +89 13 £325 -24.42% 8
Work from Home +121 11 £325 -3.99% 10
UK excluding London +31 5 - - 6
South East +18 5 - - 3

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 (21.05%) CMS
1 4 (21.05%) Headless CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Adobe After Effects
1 7 (36.84%) CINEMA 4D
2 6 (31.58%) Maya
3 5 (26.32%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (21.05%) 3ds Max
4 4 (21.05%) Blender
5 3 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (10.53%) NUKE
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
1 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Games
3 2 (10.53%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Designer
2 4 (21.05%) Animator
2 4 (21.05%) Graphic Designer
2 4 (21.05%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Lead Designer
2 4 (21.05%) Maya Artist
2 4 (21.05%) Video Editor
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Motion Graphics Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.26%) Graphics Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) React Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) Next.js
1 4 (21.05%) Unreal Engine
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) HTML5
2 3 (15.79%) React
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) PyQt
3 2 (10.53%) PySide
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) Jest
4 1 (5.26%) Nuxt
4 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Motion Graphics
2 7 (36.84%) Animation
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.26%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.26%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Coaching
2 4 (21.05%) SEO
2 4 (21.05%) Storytelling
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
3 3 (15.79%) Non-Blocking Code
3 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (10.53%) 3D Animation
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
4 2 (10.53%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
4 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
4 2 (10.53%) Refactoring
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
2 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow