Motion Designer: market
A Motion Designer brings visuals to life: creates animation for ads, social media, interfaces and video — from storyboard to final render. We currently track 37 open positions for this role, 34 of them fresh. After Effects is mandatory; postings often ask for Cinema 4D or Blender for 3D, Premiere Pro for editing, Figma and Illustrator, and an understanding of animation principles, typography and composition. By co-occurrence in requirements, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and design systems appear most often. 39% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Motion Designer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Motion Designer market currently has 37 open roles, 34 of them freshly observed.
39% of Motion Designer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 4 of 37 jobs; remote share from 33 with a stated format; 34 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: Motion Designer
| Open demand | 37 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Motion Designer
The range histogram for Motion Designer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
The chart will appear once enough observations accumulate for this breakdown.
Demand geography: Motion Designer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 7 |
| UA | 5 |
| GB | 4 |
| BG | 2 |
| RU | 2 |
| CO | 1 |
| CY | 1 |
| IL | 1 |
| MX | 1 |
| MY | 1 |
The top country for Motion Designer demand is the US (7 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Motion Designer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and design systems.
Demand by grade: Motion Designer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 10 |
| lead | 2 |
| middle | 2 |
| junior | 1 |
Senior-and-above is about 80% of 15 Motion Designer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Motion Designer
Demand is spread across 33 employers. The largest accounts for 5.9%, the top ten for 32.4%; the remaining 67.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.9% |
| top-3 | 11.8% |
| top-10 | 32.4% |
| long tail | 67.7% |
Motion Designer openings come from 33 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 5.9% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 15 sources; the largest accounts for 35.1% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Motion Designer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Motion Designer
- Sr. Video Editor & Motion Designer – AI Workflows (Remote, LATAM) · CO · $3,000
- Senior Motion Designer
- Print Motion Designer · US
- Motion Designer (Cyprus) · CY
- Mid-Level Graphic & Motion Designer · $3,623
- Junior 3D Motion Designer · US
- Motion Designer · BG
- Senior Graphic & Motion Designer · IL
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 9.
Data as of 2026-10-26
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Motion Designer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Motion Designer do?
A Motion Designer brings visuals to life: creates animation for ads, social media, interfaces and video — from storyboard to final render.
Which skills do Motion Designer postings require?
After Effects is mandatory; postings often ask for Cinema 4D or Blender for 3D, Premiere Pro for editing, Figma and Illustrator, and an understanding of animation principles, typography and composition. In the current slice, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and design systems appear in requirements most often.
Does a motion designer need 3D?
Not always: most tasks are 2D. But 3D noticeably widens the range of postings — especially in ads, games and product videos.
How remote-friendly are Motion Designer jobs?
39% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 37 open positions.
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