Unity Game Engine (Unity3D)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Unity (Game Engine) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unity (Game Engine) over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 750 873 886
Rank change year-on-year +123 +13 -200
Permanent jobs citing Unity (Game Engine) 144 116 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 135 72 83
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,875 £35,050
25th Percentile £31,500 £43,750 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -3.70% +35.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £86,563 £86,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.76% -2.38% +31.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Unity (Game 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 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 21,055 31,925 61,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.45% 30.36% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,740 19,553 30,311
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Unity (Game Engine) in the UK

Unity (Game Engine)
Top 12 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 25 April 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
England +137 141 £38,617 -40.59% 46
UK excluding London +97 129 £36,000 -29.76% 28
South West +75 97 £36,000 -48.39% 2
Work from Home +53 16 £50,000 -28.57% 29
London +66 11 £50,000 -31.03% 18
South East +19 11 £60,000 - 7
North of England +36 7 £41,235 -13.19% 8
East of England +34 7 £55,000 - 3
North West +15 7 £41,235 -28.29% 6
Midlands +7 7 £50,000 +42.86% 6
West Midlands +17 6 £62,500 +78.57% 3
East Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 3

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:

Application Platforms
1 88 (61.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Blender
2 4 (2.78%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (2.08%) Houdini
3 3 (2.08%) Maya
4 1 (0.69%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.78%) AWS
2 3 (2.08%) GCP
3 2 (1.39%) Firebase
3 2 (1.39%) npm
4 1 (0.69%) Google Container Engine
4 1 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 103 (71.53%) Git
2 88 (61.11%) Bitbucket
2 88 (61.11%) JIRA
2 88 (61.11%) Visual Studio
3 59 (40.97%) Sourcetree
4 10 (6.94%) Subversion
5 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 139 (96.53%) Games
2 88 (61.11%) Presentation Skills
3 13 (9.03%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.56%) Law
5 7 (4.86%) Aviation
5 7 (4.86%) Military
6 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (77.78%) Developer
2 94 (65.28%) Games Developer
3 89 (61.81%) Unity 3D Developer
4 88 (61.11%) 3D Developer
5 38 (26.39%) Senior
6 31 (21.53%) Senior Developer
7 30 (20.83%) Senior Games Developer
8 10 (6.94%) Development Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Lead
10 5 (3.47%) Programmer
11 4 (2.78%) Animator
11 4 (2.78%) C# Developer
11 4 (2.78%) Designer
11 4 (2.78%) Games Designer
11 4 (2.78%) Senior Designer
11 4 (2.78%) Senior Games Designer
11 4 (2.78%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.08%) C# Programmer
12 3 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.08%) Technical Artist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.14%) Unreal Engine
2 7 (4.86%) .NET
3 3 (2.08%) CryEngine
3 3 (2.08%) DirectX
3 3 (2.08%) HTML
3 3 (2.08%) HTML5
3 3 (2.08%) Vulkan
4 2 (1.39%) CSS
4 2 (1.39%) CSS3
4 2 (1.39%) JSON
4 2 (1.39%) React
4 2 (1.39%) Sass
4 2 (1.39%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (1.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.39%) XML
5 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 102 (70.83%) Virtual Reality
2 13 (9.03%) Animation
3 8 (5.56%) Mobile Games
4 7 (4.86%) Oculus
5 6 (4.17%) Augmented Reality
6 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.78%) Online Gambling
7 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.08%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.08%) Ray Tracing
9 2 (1.39%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.69%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.69%) IoT
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.94%) Windows
2 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (68.06%) Use Case
2 94 (65.28%) Software Engineering
3 88 (61.11%) Design Patterns
3 88 (61.11%) Scrum
3 88 (61.11%) UML
4 71 (49.31%) DevOps
5 26 (18.06%) Computer Science
6 24 (16.67%) Game Development
7 18 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (11.11%) Mathematics
8 16 (11.11%) Physics
9 10 (6.94%) Cross-Platform Development
9 10 (6.94%) Multithreading
10 9 (6.25%) Clean Code
11 8 (5.56%) User Experience
12 7 (4.86%) Eye Tracking
12 7 (4.86%) SOLID
13 6 (4.17%) Mentoring
14 4 (2.78%) Prototyping
14 4 (2.78%) Texturing
Programming Languages
1 110 (76.39%) C#
2 12 (8.33%) C++
3 11 (7.64%) Python
4 3 (2.08%) C
4 3 (2.08%) RPG
5 2 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.39%) PHP
6 1 (0.69%) Go
6 1 (0.69%) Java
6 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 116 (80.56%) Degree
2 88 (61.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 88 (61.11%) SC Cleared
2 88 (61.11%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 89 (61.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.78%) Adobe
3 3 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (0.69%) Apple
4 1 (0.69%) YouTube