Unity (Game Engine) Job Trends in England

Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Unity (Game Engine) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 630 610
Rank change year-on-year +44 -20 +278
Permanent jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 12 41 86
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.023% 0.085% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.39% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 60
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,150 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +28.47% -37.39%
75th Percentile £95,000 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile - £55,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% +31.94% -37.39%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,192 10,388 12,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.85% 21.51% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,759 6,104 10,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,087 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Unity (Game Engine)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Unity (Game Engine) job vacancy trend in England

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unity (Game Engine).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unity (Game Engine)

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in England

Unity (Game Engine)
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) within the England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +38 10 £90,000 +100.00% 4
North West +24 1 £37,500 - 3
North of England +16 1 £37,500 +41.51% 9
Midlands +14 1 £26,500 -44.21% 7
East Midlands - 1 £26,500 - 6
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 After Effects
2 2 (16.67%) Blender
2 2 (16.67%) CINEMA 4D
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (8.33%) Maya
3 1 (8.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 5 (41.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
General
1 8 (66.67%) Games
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) French Language
3 2 (16.67%) German Language
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (16.67%) Digital Producer
2 2 (16.67%) Sales Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lecturer
3 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) React
2 5 (41.67%) REST
2 5 (41.67%) Symfony
2 5 (41.67%) Unreal Engine
2 5 (41.67%) WebGL
3 1 (8.33%) Electron
3 1 (8.33%) Laravel
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Educational Technology
1 5 (41.67%) Mobile Games
1 5 (41.67%) Virtual Reality
2 4 (33.33%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (25.00%) Animation
4 2 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (16.67%) Video Editing
5 1 (8.33%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Android
1 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) AI
1 5 (41.67%) Budget Management
1 5 (41.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
1 5 (41.67%) Natural Language Processing
1 5 (41.67%) Objectives and Key Results
1 5 (41.67%) Resource Allocation
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
1 5 (41.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 5 (41.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) B2B
2 2 (16.67%) B2B Sales
2 2 (16.67%) Building Information Modelling
2 2 (16.67%) CAD
2 2 (16.67%) Post-Production
2 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
2 2 (16.67%) Use Case
2 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PHP
2 5 (41.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Autodesk