Unity (Game Engine) Contracts

Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Unity (Game Engine) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 693 816
Rank change year-on-year +131 +123 -194
Contract jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 29 25 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.042% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 23
10th Percentile £208 £268 £225
25th Percentile £263 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 £463 £638
90th Percentile £603 £515 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £375 £275
% change year-on-year +60.00% +36.36% -21.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £38.05 - £42.31
25th Percentile £40.75 - £42.97
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £45.63
75th Percentile £52.06 - £47.97
90th Percentile £68.83 - £48.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 contract job vacancies 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 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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 4 May 2024.

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)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

Unity (Game Engine)
Top 8 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 4 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
England +114 24 £339 -10.17% 52
London +107 18 £320 -12.45% 19
Work from Home +117 8 £300 -20.00% 30
UK excluding London +65 6 £600 +60.00% 33
South East - 4 £600 - 5
Midlands +29 1 - - 12
West Midlands +25 1 - - 11
East of England - 1 £300 - 4

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 3 (10.34%) Maya
2 2 (6.90%) Blender
2 2 (6.90%) Houdini
3 1 (3.45%) 3ds Max
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (3.45%) AutoCAD
3 1 (3.45%) Photoshop
3 1 (3.45%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Figma
1 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) VTune
General
1 22 (75.86%) Games
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Designer
3 5 (17.24%) Games Designer
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Writer
5 3 (10.34%) Graphics Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Designer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Games Designer
6 2 (6.90%) Android Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) C++ Android Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) UX Designer
7 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) C++/C# Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Documentation Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Documentation Writer
7 1 (3.45%) Graphics Programmer
7 1 (3.45%) Technical Artist
7 1 (3.45%) UI Designer
7 1 (3.45%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) Unreal Engine
2 4 (13.79%) DirectX
2 4 (13.79%) OpenGL
2 4 (13.79%) Vulkan
3 3 (10.34%) OpenGL ES
4 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Augmented Reality
2 8 (27.59%) Animation
3 7 (24.14%) Virtual Reality
4 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
4 3 (10.34%) Mixed Reality
4 3 (10.34%) Mobile Games
5 2 (6.90%) Social Media
6 1 (3.45%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.45%) HoloLens
6 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.45%) Oculus
6 1 (3.45%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) User Experience
2 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
3 6 (20.69%) Android Development
4 5 (17.24%) Game Development
4 5 (17.24%) UX Design
5 4 (13.79%) Prototyping
5 4 (13.79%) Web Development
6 3 (10.34%) Linear Algebra
6 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) Project Management
6 3 (10.34%) Psychology
7 2 (6.90%) 3D Modelling
7 2 (6.90%) Computer Vision
7 2 (6.90%) Data Science
7 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning
7 2 (6.90%) Mathematics
7 2 (6.90%) Physics
7 2 (6.90%) User Research
8 1 (3.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) C#
2 6 (20.69%) C++
3 3 (10.34%) GLSL
3 3 (10.34%) HLSL
3 3 (10.34%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.45%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe
1 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
1 1 (3.45%) Perforce