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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 682 659
Rank change year-on-year +36 -23 +265
Permanent jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 18 57 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.084% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.41% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 15 40 44
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +44.21% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £95,000 £76,563 £72,500
90th Percentile - £100,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -20.00%

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 7,539 13,754 14,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 20.29% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,052 8,303 11,737
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Top 7 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 November 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 +76 17 £68,500 +44.21% 49
London +41 13 £79,250 -20.75% 18
Work from Home +61 12 £90,000 +118.18% 25
UK excluding London +51 2 £42,500 -10.53% 36
South East +43 1 £47,500 -25.49% 12
North West +27 1 £37,500 -16.67% 6
North of England +10 1 £37,500 -16.67% 8

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 (16.67%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (11.11%) CINEMA 4D
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (5.56%) Blender
3 1 (5.56%) Maya
3 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Machine Learning
2 5 (27.78%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) GIS
1 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 14 (77.78%) Games
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) French Language
4 2 (11.11%) German Language
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Chief Technology Officer
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Producer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Sales Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Artist
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) Junior
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Junior PHP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lecturer
5 1 (5.56%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Unreal Engine
1 7 (38.89%) WebGL
2 6 (33.33%) React
3 5 (27.78%) REST
3 5 (27.78%) Symfony
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) Electron
5 1 (5.56%) LangChain
5 1 (5.56%) Laravel
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Mobile Games
2 5 (27.78%) Animation
2 5 (27.78%) Educational Technology
3 4 (22.22%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (22.22%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (11.11%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (11.11%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Android
1 5 (27.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) AI
2 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 6 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 5 (27.78%) Budget Management
3 5 (27.78%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (27.78%) Objectives and Key Results
3 5 (27.78%) Resource Allocation
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (27.78%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) 3D Animation
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) B2B Sales
6 2 (11.11%) Building Information Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) Post-Production
6 2 (11.11%) Prototyping
6 2 (11.11%) Storytelling
6 2 (11.11%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PHP
2 5 (27.78%) Kotlin
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) HLSL
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Autodesk
2 1 (5.56%) Google