Unreal Engine Jobs in England

Unreal Engine
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Unreal Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unreal Engine over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 760 812
Rank change year-on-year +119 +52 +144
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 17 84 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.48% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 15 65 81
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £39,720 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £56,375 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £43,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -27.50% +4.35% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Unreal 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 7,617 17,378 27,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.34% 20.39% 29.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,772 14,107 17,075
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,252 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.89%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unreal Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unreal Engine in England

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unreal Engine in England.

Salary trend for Unreal Engine in England

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unreal Engine in England

Unreal 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 Unreal Engine within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +67 6 £43,500 +5.49% 26
Yorkshire - 6 £43,500 - 10
South East +86 3 £68,750 +14.58% 40
East of England +46 3 £37,000 -70.40% 15
South West +112 2 £37,500 -16.67% 12
London +77 2 £67,500 +22.73% 27
Midlands +51 1 £35,000 -53.33% 25
East Midlands +41 1 £35,000 - 7
Unreal Engine
UK

Unreal Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Blender
1 5 (29.41%) Maya
2 4 (23.53%) 3ds Max
3 2 (11.76%) ZBrush
4 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (5.88%) Houdini
4 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
4 1 (5.88%) Pro Tools
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) DigitalOcean
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) git-flow
General
1 9 (52.94%) Games
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Animator
4 1 (5.88%) Augmented Reality Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Creative Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Games Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Graphics Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Graphics Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Instructor
4 1 (5.88%) Programmer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Graphics Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Reality Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.76%) Flutter
3 2 (11.76%) Laravel
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (11.76%) Vue
4 1 (5.88%) Corona SDK
4 1 (5.88%) DirectX
4 1 (5.88%) OpenGL
4 1 (5.88%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Virtual Reality
2 3 (17.65%) Animation
2 3 (17.65%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.88%) Interactive Media
4 1 (5.88%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.88%) Robotics
4 1 (5.88%) Social Media
4 1 (5.88%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Texturing
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (11.76%) CRM
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Twin
3 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
3 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
3 2 (11.76%) Memory Management
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile Development
3 2 (11.76%) OOP
3 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Storytelling
3 2 (11.76%) Time Management
3 2 (11.76%) Workflow
4 1 (5.88%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) Data Integration
4 1 (5.88%) Physics
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) C++
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) PHP
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Adobe
1 2 (11.76%) Perforce
2 1 (5.88%) Vectorworks