Unreal Engine Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Unreal Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unreal Engine over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 432 498
Rank change year-on-year +52 +66 -87
Contract jobs citing Unreal Engine 10 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.047% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.26% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile £325 £213 £278
25th Percentile £363 £231 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £295 £425
Median % change year-on-year +52.54% -30.59% +240.00%
75th Percentile £519 £444 £484
90th Percentile £545 £462 £513
UK median daily rate £339 £400 £463
% change year-on-year -15.22% -13.51% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £39.92 - -
25th Percentile £45.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile £71.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +10.39% -18.95% +3.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Unreal Engine is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,243 4,275 6,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.30% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,186 4,326
10th Percentile £325 £357 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 93 150
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.28 £20.70
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +24.27% +14.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.48
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £75.39
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
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 Unreal Engine within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +36 3 - - 7
Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
Midlands +30 2 - - 19
West Midlands +17 2 - - 19
South East +15 2 - - 11
South West +10 2 £488 +62.50% 2
East of England - 1 £300 - 4
Unreal Engine
UK

Unreal Engine
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 5 (50.00%) Maya
1 5 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (30.00%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (30.00%) Blender
3 2 (20.00%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) VTune
General
1 7 (70.00%) Games
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) C/C++ Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Games Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Games Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Graphics Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Graphics Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Sage Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (20.00%) DirectX
2 2 (20.00%) OpenGL
2 2 (20.00%) V-Ray
2 2 (20.00%) Vulkan
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Animation
3 1 (10.00%) CUDA
3 1 (10.00%) Mixed Reality
3 1 (10.00%) Ray Tracing
3 1 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Creative Thinking
2 3 (30.00%) Interaction Design
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Android Development
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Vision
3 1 (10.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (10.00%) Linear Algebra
3 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) GLSL
3 1 (10.00%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (10.00%) Sage