Unreal Engine Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 706 666
Rank change year-on-year +146 -40 +87
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 15 57 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.080% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 14 40 40
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,350 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £39,720 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% -5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £45,250 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £61,875 £82,500 £94,250
UK median annual salary £43,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.50% - -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,430 14,329 16,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.64% 20.01% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,497 10,315 8,964
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Unreal Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unreal Engine in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unreal Engine within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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 +39 6 £43,500 +5.49% 14
Yorkshire - 6 £43,500 - 2
South East +80 4 £65,000 +8.33% 35
South West +98 2 £37,500 -16.67% 2
East of England +36 2 £37,000 -70.40% 1
Midlands +59 1 £35,000 -53.33% 14
East Midlands +22 1 £35,000 - 3
Unreal Engine
UK

Unreal Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Blender
1 4 (26.67%) Maya
2 3 (20.00%) 3ds Max
3 2 (13.33%) ZBrush
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (6.67%) Photoshop
4 1 (6.67%) Pro Tools
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) DigitalOcean
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) git-flow
General
1 9 (60.00%) Games
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Advertising
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Animator
3 1 (6.67%) Augmented Reality Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Designer
3 1 (6.67%) Games Designer
3 1 (6.67%) Instructor
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Programmer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Reality Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) Flutter
3 2 (13.33%) Laravel
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (13.33%) Vue
4 1 (6.67%) Corona SDK
4 1 (6.67%) DirectX
4 1 (6.67%) OpenGL
4 1 (6.67%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Reality
2 3 (20.00%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (13.33%) Animation
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Interactive Media
4 1 (6.67%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (6.67%) Robotics
4 1 (6.67%) Social Media
4 1 (6.67%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (20.00%) Texturing
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (13.33%) CRM
3 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (13.33%) Memory Management
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile Development
3 2 (13.33%) OOP
3 2 (13.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Storytelling
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (6.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.67%) Physics
4 1 (6.67%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Vectorworks