Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Unity (Game Engine) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 838 882
Rank change year-on-year +55 +44 -166
Permanent jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 131 114 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 0.39% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 121 69 78
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £30,265
25th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,235 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.37% -14.29% +30.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Unity (Game Engine) is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Unity (Game Engine)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Unity (Game Engine) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unity (Game Engine).

Salary trend for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +93 130 £48,750 -25.00% 44
UK excluding London +62 119 £41,235 -8.37% 29
South West +55 84 £36,000 -10.00% 2
Work from Home +24 17 £50,000 -28.57% 34
London +87 11 £50,000 -31.03% 14
South East 0 11 £60,000 - 6
Midlands -4 9 £48,750 +39.29% 10
North of England +46 8 £41,235 -10.84% 8
North West +11 8 £41,235 -31.28% 6
West Midlands +10 8 £50,000 +42.86% 7
East of England +2 7 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 3

Unity (Game Engine)
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 74 (56.49%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) WordPress
3 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Blender
2 4 (3.05%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (3.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (3.05%) Maya
3 3 (2.29%) Houdini
4 2 (1.53%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.76%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.76%) ZBrush
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.29%) AWS
2 2 (1.53%) GCP
2 2 (1.53%) npm
3 1 (0.76%) Firebase
3 1 (0.76%) Google Container Engine
3 1 (0.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
1 1 (0.76%) GIS
1 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 88 (67.18%) Git
2 75 (57.25%) Visual Studio
3 74 (56.49%) Bitbucket
3 74 (56.49%) JIRA
4 59 (45.04%) Sourcetree
5 10 (7.63%) Subversion
6 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (94.66%) Games
2 74 (56.49%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (9.16%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.11%) Law
5 7 (5.34%) Aviation
5 7 (5.34%) Military
6 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Marketing
8 2 (1.53%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Finance
9 1 (0.76%) iGaming
9 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 98 (74.81%) Developer
2 81 (61.83%) Games Developer
3 75 (57.25%) Unity 3D Developer
4 74 (56.49%) 3D Developer
5 39 (29.77%) Senior
6 31 (23.66%) Senior Developer
7 30 (22.90%) Senior Games Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Development Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Lead
10 4 (3.05%) Animator
10 4 (3.05%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.05%) Designer
10 4 (3.05%) Games Designer
10 4 (3.05%) Programmer
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Designer
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Games Designer
10 4 (3.05%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.29%) Lead Developer
11 3 (2.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (2.29%) Technical Artist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.14%) Unreal Engine
2 8 (6.11%) .NET
3 4 (3.05%) CryEngine
3 4 (3.05%) HTML
3 4 (3.05%) HTML5
4 3 (2.29%) CSS
4 3 (2.29%) DirectX
4 3 (2.29%) Vulkan
5 2 (1.53%) CSS3
5 2 (1.53%) JSON
5 2 (1.53%) React
5 2 (1.53%) Sass
5 2 (1.53%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (1.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (1.53%) XML
6 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.76%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (0.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 90 (68.70%) Virtual Reality
2 13 (9.92%) Animation
3 8 (6.11%) Augmented Reality
3 8 (6.11%) Mobile Games
4 7 (5.34%) Oculus
5 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.05%) Online Gambling
6 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.29%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.29%) Ray Tracing
8 2 (1.53%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.76%) IoT
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (64.12%) Use Case
2 79 (60.31%) Software Engineering
3 75 (57.25%) Design Patterns
4 74 (56.49%) Scrum
4 74 (56.49%) UML
5 71 (54.20%) DevOps
6 25 (19.08%) Computer Science
7 23 (17.56%) Game Development
8 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.21%) Mathematics
9 16 (12.21%) Physics
10 10 (7.63%) Cross-Platform Development
10 10 (7.63%) Multithreading
11 9 (6.87%) Clean Code
12 8 (6.11%) User Experience
13 7 (5.34%) Eye Tracking
13 7 (5.34%) SOLID
14 5 (3.82%) Visualisation
15 4 (3.05%) CAD
15 4 (3.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (74.81%) C#
2 12 (9.16%) Python
3 11 (8.40%) C++
4 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.29%) C
5 3 (2.29%) RPG
6 2 (1.53%) PHP
7 1 (0.76%) Go
7 1 (0.76%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 104 (79.39%) Degree
2 74 (56.49%) BPSS Clearance
2 74 (56.49%) SC Cleared
2 74 (56.49%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (3.05%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (56.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.05%) Adobe
3 2 (1.53%) Google
4 1 (0.76%) Apple
4 1 (0.76%) ESRI
4 1 (0.76%) YouTube