Unity (Game Engine) Job Trends

Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Unity (Game Engine) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 695 632
Rank change year-on-year +52 -63 +293
Permanent jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 12 51 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.081% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.38% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 60
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,425 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £47,500 £39,250
Median % change year-on-year +89.47% +21.02% -28.64%
75th Percentile £95,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - £100,000 £73,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +31.94% -28.00%

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 7,032 13,467 13,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.65% 21.29% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 8,170 10,912
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Unity (Game Engine)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unity (Game Engine) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Unity (Game Engine) job vacancy trend in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Unity (Game Engine).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Unity (Game Engine)

Unity (Game Engine)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Top 6 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 5 December 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 +66 12 £90,000 +89.47% 8
London +62 11 £90,000 +100.00% 6
Work from Home +82 9 £90,000 +92.51% 3
UK excluding London +52 1 £37,500 -21.05% 7
North West +43 1 £37,500 -
North of England +39 1 £37,500 +41.51%

Unity (Game Engine)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (16.67%) CINEMA 4D
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (8.33%) Blender
3 1 (8.33%) Maya
3 1 (8.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 5 (41.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) GIS
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
General
1 8 (66.67%) Games
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) French Language
3 2 (16.67%) German Language
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (16.67%) Digital Producer
2 2 (16.67%) Sales Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lecturer
3 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) React
2 5 (41.67%) REST
2 5 (41.67%) Symfony
2 5 (41.67%) Unreal Engine
2 5 (41.67%) WebGL
3 1 (8.33%) Electron
3 1 (8.33%) LangChain
3 1 (8.33%) Laravel
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Educational Technology
1 5 (41.67%) Mobile Games
2 4 (33.33%) Augmented Reality
2 4 (33.33%) Virtual Reality
3 3 (25.00%) Animation
4 2 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (16.67%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Android
1 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) AI
1 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 5 (41.67%) Budget Management
2 5 (41.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (41.67%) Objectives and Key Results
2 5 (41.67%) Resource Allocation
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 5 (41.67%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) B2B
3 2 (16.67%) B2B Sales
3 2 (16.67%) Building Information Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) CAD
3 2 (16.67%) Post-Production
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 2 (16.67%) Use Case
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PHP
2 5 (41.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Autodesk
2 1 (8.33%) Google