Unreal Engine Job Trends in England

Unreal Engine
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Unreal Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 623 611
Rank change year-on-year +31 -12 +235
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 13 53 73
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.025% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.51% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 49
10th Percentile £35,200 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -33.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £69,375 -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +3.45% -28.98% -

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 6,214 10,344 12,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.82% 21.56% 24.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,775 6,064 10,166
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,688
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Unreal Engine job vacancy trend in England

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unreal Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 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 +52 7 £55,000 +15.79% 5
North of England +15 4 £42,500 -2.30% 16
North East - 3 £42,500 - 2
North West +26 1 £37,500 -9.06% 5
Midlands +22 1 £26,500 - 13
East of England +21 1 £47,500 - 14
East Midlands - 1 £26,500 - 10
Unreal Engine
UK

Unreal 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 6 (46.15%) Blender
2 4 (30.77%) Maya
3 3 (23.08%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (15.38%) 3ds Max
4 2 (15.38%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (7.69%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (7.69%) Fusion 360
5 1 (7.69%) Houdini
5 1 (7.69%) NUKE
5 1 (7.69%) Photoshop
5 1 (7.69%) Siemens NX
5 1 (7.69%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
General
1 5 (38.46%) Games
2 4 (30.77%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) French Language
3 2 (15.38%) German Language
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Animator
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) 3D Artist
2 2 (15.38%) Sales Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior PHP Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lecturer
3 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (15.38%) V-Ray
3 1 (7.69%) Corona SDK
3 1 (7.69%) Electron
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Animation
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Reality
3 3 (23.08%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (23.08%) Robotics
4 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (7.69%) Acoustics
5 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
5 1 (7.69%) Midjourney
5 1 (7.69%) Photography
5 1 (7.69%) Stable Diffusion
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Storytelling
1 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
2 3 (23.08%) Business Development
2 3 (23.08%) CAD
2 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (23.08%) Storyboarding
2 3 (23.08%) Visual Effects
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) B2B
3 2 (15.38%) B2B Sales
3 2 (15.38%) Building Information Modelling
3 2 (15.38%) Line Management
3 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Texturing
3 2 (15.38%) Use Case
4 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.69%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Videography
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PHP
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe
2 2 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Autodesk
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens