Virtual Reality (VR)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Reality in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Reality over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 741 674
Rank change year-on-year +1 -67 -2
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Reality 175 211 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.22% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.51% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 161 101 116
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £30,265
25th Percentile £31,500 £45,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £107,500 £94,063
90th Percentile £76,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £56,250 £46,250
% change year-on-year -24.44% +21.62% -7.50%

All Generic Skills
UK

Virtual Reality is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Virtual Reality
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Reality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Reality in the UK

Virtual Reality
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Reality.

Salary trend for Virtual Reality in the UK

Virtual Reality
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Reality over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Reality in the UK

Virtual Reality
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Reality 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 +41 160 £42,500 -33.33% 73
UK excluding London +34 158 £42,500 -24.44% 43
South West +29 87 £36,000 -28.00% 13
Work from Home +19 35 £68,750 -22.54% 34
Midlands -1 24 £44,000 +10.00% 9
London +67 16 £85,000 -8.11% 28
West Midlands +7 14 £60,000 +71.43% 5
South East -8 14 £67,500 +17.39% 6
Scotland -56 14 £67,500 -38.64% 2
North of England +48 13 £41,235 -23.28% 5
North West +17 12 £41,235 -31.28% 1
East Midlands -8 10 £42,500 -10.53% 4
East of England - 6 £37,500 - 7
North East -15 1 £27,500 -47.62% 4

Virtual Reality
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 (42.29%) Confluence
2 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
3 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (6.29%) AutoCAD
2 7 (4.00%) Revit
3 5 (2.86%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.29%) 3ds Max
5 3 (1.71%) SketchUp
6 2 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.14%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (1.14%) InDesign
7 1 (0.57%) Blender
7 1 (0.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (4.57%) GitHub
2 7 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 6 (3.43%) Power Automate
3 6 (3.43%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.43%) PowerApps
4 4 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.71%) AWS
5 3 (1.71%) Azure
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.57%) Figma
7 1 (0.57%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.57%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Firewall
1 2 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.43%) Power BI
2 3 (1.71%) Big Data
3 2 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.57%) MySQL
4 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 76 (43.43%) Visual Studio
2 75 (42.86%) Git
3 74 (42.29%) Bitbucket
3 74 (42.29%) JIRA
4 59 (33.71%) Sourcetree
General
1 109 (62.29%) Games
2 76 (43.43%) Presentation Skills
3 28 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 16 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.14%) Finance
5 14 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.71%) Legal
7 9 (5.14%) Military
8 8 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.00%) Aviation
9 7 (4.00%) Law
9 7 (4.00%) Multimedia
10 5 (2.86%) Electronics
11 4 (2.29%) Marketing
12 3 (1.71%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.14%) Automotive
14 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (62.86%) Developer
2 81 (46.29%) 3D Developer
3 78 (44.57%) Games Developer
4 74 (42.29%) Unity 3D Developer
5 42 (24.00%) Senior
6 30 (17.14%) Senior Developer
6 30 (17.14%) Senior Games Developer
7 17 (9.71%) Lead
8 14 (8.00%) Analyst
9 10 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (4.57%) Consultant
11 7 (4.00%) Head of IT
11 7 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
12 5 (2.86%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.86%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.29%) IT Consultant
13 4 (2.29%) Software Developer
13 4 (2.29%) Software Manager
13 4 (2.29%) Software Team Leader
13 4 (2.29%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (51.43%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 15 (8.57%) Unreal Engine
3 11 (6.29%) V-Ray
4 10 (5.71%) CSS
5 9 (5.14%) React
6 8 (4.57%) Node.js
7 7 (4.00%) .NET
7 7 (4.00%) WebGL
8 4 (2.29%) HTML
9 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.57%) HTML5
9 1 (0.57%) jQuery
9 1 (0.57%) Kafka
9 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.57%) Smart Contracts
9 1 (0.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 1 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (34.29%) Augmented Reality
2 15 (8.57%) IoT
3 14 (8.00%) Oculus
4 10 (5.71%) e-Learning
5 9 (5.14%) Video\Live Streaming
6 8 (4.57%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.57%) Industry 4.0
7 7 (4.00%) Animation
7 7 (4.00%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.00%) HoloLens
7 7 (4.00%) HTC Vive
7 7 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (3.43%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 6 (3.43%) PMI
8 6 (3.43%) SCADA
9 3 (1.71%) 3D Printing
9 3 (1.71%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.71%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.71%) Over-the-Top Content
9 3 (1.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (49.71%) Software Engineering
2 74 (42.29%) Design Patterns
2 74 (42.29%) Scrum
2 74 (42.29%) UML
2 74 (42.29%) Use Case
3 60 (34.29%) DevOps
4 25 (14.29%) Visualisation
5 24 (13.71%) Computer Science
6 20 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 19 (10.86%) Analytics
8 18 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (9.71%) Agile
10 16 (9.14%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (9.14%) Project Management
11 14 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (6.86%) Game Development
13 10 (5.71%) Machine Learning
14 9 (5.14%) Actionable Insight
14 9 (5.14%) Data Analytics
14 9 (5.14%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 99 (56.57%) C#
2 13 (7.43%) JavaScript
2 13 (7.43%) SQL
3 11 (6.29%) Java
4 9 (5.14%) C
5 8 (4.57%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.00%) Python
7 6 (3.43%) C++
8 3 (1.71%) PHP
9 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (58.86%) Degree
2 82 (46.86%) Security Cleared
3 78 (44.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 76 (43.43%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.43%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (4.00%) GDPR
3 3 (1.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.86%) Firmware
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 86 (49.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.29%) Adobe
3 7 (4.00%) Autodesk
4 6 (3.43%) Oracle
5 4 (2.29%) SAP
6 1 (0.57%) Google