Unreal Engine Job Trends in the Midlands

Unreal Engine
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Unreal Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 231 290
Rank change year-on-year -26 +59 -37
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 4 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.028% 0.035% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% 0.26% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £37,325 - £39,625
25th Percentile £43,063 £32,500 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -31.71% +46.43%
75th Percentile £54,375 £37,500 £60,313
90th Percentile £55,500 - £63,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £37,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +87.92% -32.27% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 960 781 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.81% 13.64% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 715 548 1,113
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,343 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Unreal Engine job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Unreal Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Unreal Engine in the Midlands

Unreal Engine
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unreal Engine within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
East Midlands -18 3 £52,500 +50.00% 2
West Midlands -31 1 £47,500 -
Unreal Engine
England

Unreal Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) 3ds Max
1 1 (25.00%) Blender
1 1 (25.00%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (25.00%) Maya
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) RTP
1 1 (25.00%) RTSP
1 1 (25.00%) SCTP
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (25.00%) SS7
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C++/C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Corona SDK
1 1 (25.00%) FFmpeg
1 1 (25.00%) GStreamer
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) V-Ray
1 1 (25.00%) WebRTC
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) CUDA
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) 3D Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) 3D Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Perforce