Unreal Engine Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unreal Engine
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Unreal Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unreal Engine over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 707 686 747
Rank change year-on-year -21 +61 -112
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 54 65 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 39 37 65
10th Percentile £31,200 £28,700 £30,265
25th Percentile £39,720 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +72.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +23.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Unreal Engine is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,284 16,554 23,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.28% 27.47% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,265 9,129 14,506
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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
South East +11 19 £60,000 -14.29% 14
North of England +51 12 £41,235 -58.77% 7
North West +24 12 £41,235 - 3
Midlands -7 11 £75,000 +114.29% 21
West Midlands +4 7 £75,000 +114.29% 21
South West -32 7 £45,000 -10.00% 2
East of England +20 5 £125,000 - 5
East Midlands - 4 - -
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 4 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) CMS
2 2 (3.70%) IIS
2 2 (3.70%) Liferay
2 2 (3.70%) Magnolia
2 2 (3.70%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) 3ds Max
1 4 (7.41%) Maya
1 4 (7.41%) MotionBuilder
1 4 (7.41%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.85%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (3.70%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) npm
2 2 (3.70%) PaaS
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (1.85%) Figma
3 1 (1.85%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (3.70%) DB2
1 2 (3.70%) DTS
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Git
2 10 (18.52%) Subversion
3 5 (9.26%) JIRA
4 3 (5.56%) GitLab
5 2 (3.70%) Bower
5 2 (3.70%) git-flow
5 2 (3.70%) gulp
5 2 (3.70%) Moq
5 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (62.96%) Games
2 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.41%) Advertising
5 4 (7.41%) Automotive
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) Games Developer
3 10 (18.52%) Development Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Lead
5 5 (9.26%) Senior
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Games Programmer
6 4 (7.41%) Product Specialist
6 4 (7.41%) Programmer
7 3 (5.56%) Junior
7 3 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Development Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Junior Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Junior Web Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Lead Software Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Web Developer
9 1 (1.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (7.41%) Corona SDK
2 4 (7.41%) CSS
2 4 (7.41%) HTML
2 4 (7.41%) V-Ray
3 3 (5.56%) CryEngine
3 3 (5.56%) DirectX
3 3 (5.56%) Kafka
3 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 3 (5.56%) React
3 3 (5.56%) React Native
3 3 (5.56%) Vulkan
4 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.70%) Angular 2
4 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (3.70%) Autofac
4 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.70%) Redux
4 2 (3.70%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
2 4 (7.41%) Animation
2 4 (7.41%) Augmented Reality
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.56%) Mobile Games
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Ray Tracing
3 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.78%) Windows
2 5 (9.26%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Computer Science
1 19 (35.19%) Physics
2 16 (29.63%) Mathematics
3 15 (27.78%) DevOps
4 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (22.22%) Use Case
6 11 (20.37%) Game Development
7 10 (18.52%) Cross-Platform Development
7 10 (18.52%) Multithreading
8 8 (14.81%) Web Development
9 6 (11.11%) Project Management
9 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (9.26%) Agile
10 5 (9.26%) CAD
10 5 (9.26%) Visualisation
11 4 (7.41%) Data Science
11 4 (7.41%) Digital Twin
11 4 (7.41%) Texturing
11 4 (7.41%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Python
2 12 (22.22%) C++
3 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.96%) C
4 7 (12.96%) C#
5 4 (7.41%) PHP
6 3 (5.56%) SQL
6 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) Go
7 2 (3.70%) Java
7 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.70%) VB
7 2 (3.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 19 (35.19%) Degree
2 13 (24.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Atlassian
2 4 (7.41%) Autodesk
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) MuleSoft
3 2 (3.70%) OpenText
3 2 (3.70%) Pega
3 2 (3.70%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe
4 1 (1.85%) Alias