Unity (Game Engine) Contracts

Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Unity (Game Engine) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 554 692
Rank change year-on-year +48 +138 +129
Contract jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 14 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.064% 0.044%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 20
10th Percentile £278 £208 £268
25th Percentile £324 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +33.92% -20.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £444 £525 £456
90th Percentile £513 £603 £508
UK excluding London median daily rate £285 £600 £375
% change year-on-year -52.50% +60.00% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +47 13 £402 +18.47% 136
UK excluding London +66 9 £285 -52.50% 120
Midlands +29 8 £320 - 22
West Midlands +21 8 £320 - 11
London +25 4 £427 +33.55% 33
Work from Home +36 3 £400 +33.33% 65
South East +43 1 £250 -58.33% 37

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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Figma
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Plastic SCM
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 12 (85.71%) Games
2 5 (35.71%) Polish Language
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Designer
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Games Designer
3 4 (28.57%) Games Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Designer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Games Designer
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Designer
4 1 (7.14%) 3D Animator
4 1 (7.14%) 3D Artist
4 1 (7.14%) Animator
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead UX Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Producer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Producer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Producer
4 1 (7.14%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Babylonjs
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Virtual Reality
2 4 (28.57%) Mobile Games
3 2 (14.29%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (7.14%) Animation
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) User Experience
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Data Management
4 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Project Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) 3D Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Game Development
5 2 (14.29%) UX Design
6 1 (7.14%) Multithreading
6 1 (7.14%) Scrum
6 1 (7.14%) User Research
6 1 (7.14%) User Stories
6 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Perforce