Unity (Game Engine) Contracts with Work from Home Options

Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 458 603
Rank change year-on-year +107 +145 -162
Contract jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 8 22 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.085% 0.052%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.34% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 15
10th Percentile - £331 £375
25th Percentile £263 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -26.83% +28.13%
75th Percentile £338 £456 £638
90th Percentile £354 £488 £700
UK median daily rate £313 £375 £513
% change year-on-year -16.67% -26.83% +28.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,670 6,563 13,189
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.86% 25.23% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,552 4,891 9,760
10th Percentile £333 £394 £390
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £775 £756 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 81 121
10th Percentile £24.90 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £38.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Unity (Game Engine)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unity (Game Engine) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unity (Game Engine) trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unity (Game Engine)
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unity (Game Engine).

Unity (Game Engine) daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Unity (Game Engine)
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unity (Game Engine).

Unity (Game Engine) hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Unity (Game Engine)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 7 (87.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) 3D Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C++ Games Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C++/C# Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Games Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Writer
2 1 (12.50%) Unity 3D Developer
2 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Animation
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile Games
3 1 (12.50%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Game Development
2 1 (12.50%) 3D Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) Android Development
2 1 (12.50%) Content Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Physics
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
2 1 (12.50%) User Research
2 1 (12.50%) UX Design
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA