Unity (Game Engine) Jobs

Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Unity (Game Engine) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 752 874
Rank change year-on-year +80 +122 +10
Permanent jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 20 144 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.68% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8 135 71
10th Percentile £25,363 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,063 £31,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -38.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £45,813 £52,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £47,875 £65,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -24.21% -9.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Unity (Game 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Unity (Game Engine)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Unity (Game Engine) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unity (Game Engine).

Salary trend for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +52 19 £35,000 -9.37% 69
Work from Home +190 11 £43,500 -13.00% 64
UK excluding London +91 11 £35,000 -2.78% 48
London +107 8 - - 31
South East +101 3 £30,000 -50.00% 20
North of England +81 3 £26,500 -35.73% 11
Midlands +78 3 £46,250 -7.50% 7
West Midlands +47 3 £46,250 -26.00% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £26,500 - 1
East of England +51 1 - - 4
South West +11 1 £35,000 -2.78% 4

Unity (Game Engine)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) 3ds Max
1 2 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 2 (10.00%) Revit
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Blender
2 1 (5.00%) Maya
2 1 (5.00%) Pro Tools
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) GitHub
1 8 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Git
2 8 (40.00%) Gradle
2 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (75.00%) Games
2 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Lead
2 9 (45.00%) Lead Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Android Developer
3 7 (35.00%) iOS Android Developer
3 7 (35.00%) iOS Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Lead Android Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Lead iOS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Innovation Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Games Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Graduate Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Graphics Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Graphics Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Innovation Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Instructor
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Graphics Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (10.00%) DirectX
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (5.00%) OpenGL
3 1 (5.00%) WinForms
3 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Mobile App
2 8 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (40.00%) Mobile Games
3 4 (20.00%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (5.00%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (5.00%) e-Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.00%) Robotics
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Android
1 9 (45.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 10 (50.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) B2B
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (45.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) Coaching
4 8 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 8 (40.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (40.00%) Migration
4 8 (40.00%) Mobile Development
4 8 (40.00%) Product Strategy
4 8 (40.00%) SOLID
4 8 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 8 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 8 (40.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 8 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 8 (40.00%) Objective-C
2 8 (40.00%) Swift
3 6 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) C++
5 2 (10.00%) C
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (55.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) New Relic
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe