Unity (Game Engine) Contract Job Trends in England

Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Unity (Game Engine) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 492 546
Rank change year-on-year -40 +54 +175
Contract jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 12 15 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.049% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile £218 £289 £273
25th Percentile £253 £355 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £414 £431
Median % change year-on-year -21.50% -3.94% +1.41%
75th Percentile £506 £468 £530
90th Percentile £560 £475 £547
UK median daily rate £325 £414 £430
% change year-on-year -21.50% -3.72% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £46.25
75th Percentile - - £55.31
90th Percentile - - £60.38
UK median hourly rate - - £46.25
% change year-on-year - - -22.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Unity (Game Engine) falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

Unity (Game Engine)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unity (Game Engine) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Unity (Game Engine) job vacancy trend in England

Unity (Game Engine)
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unity (Game Engine).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unity (Game Engine)

Unity (Game Engine)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in England

Unity (Game Engine)
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unity (Game Engine).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unity (Game Engine)

Unity (Game Engine)
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) within the England region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
London -5 11 £325 -21.45% 3
Unity (Game Engine)
UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (25.00%) Blender
1 3 (25.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (8.33%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (8.33%) Maya
General
1 9 (75.00%) Games
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Bazel
2 2 (16.67%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (8.33%) JNI
3 1 (8.33%) LangChain
3 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (8.33%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Virtual Reality
2 4 (33.33%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (25.00%) Animation
4 2 (16.67%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (16.67%) Mixed Reality
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (8.33%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (25.00%) Android Development
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (25.00%) Texturing
4 2 (16.67%) 3D Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) AI
5 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 1 (8.33%) Code Coverage
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) Game Development
5 1 (8.33%) Logistics
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Open Source
5 1 (8.33%) Speech Recognition
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) C++
3 6 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (41.67%) PHP
4 5 (41.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe
1 1 (8.33%) Autodesk
1 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA