Unreal Engine Jobs

Unreal Engine
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Unreal Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unreal Engine over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 730 809 770
Rank change year-on-year +79 -39 +275
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 10 105 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.098% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.49% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8 77 83
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £58,125 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -38.33% - -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Unreal 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 9,907 21,536 25,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.64% 20.15% 28.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,016 15,970 17,277
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +4.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £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%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Unreal Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unreal Engine in the UK

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unreal Engine.

Salary trend for Unreal Engine in the UK

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Unreal Engine in the UK

Unreal Engine
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 July 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 +59 9 £37,000 -38.33% 326
Work from Home +102 8 £43,500 -24.35% 190
UK excluding London +113 7 £37,000 -38.33% 195
Midlands +78 2 £35,000 -53.33% 48
London +61 2 £85,000 +41.67% 143
South East +50 2 £47,500 -20.83% 41
East of England +34 2 £37,000 -63.00% 26
South West +84 1 £35,000 -15.15% 12
West Midlands +58 1 - - 34
East Midlands +38 1 £35,000 - 13

Unreal 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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) 3ds Max
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (10.00%) Houdini
2 1 (10.00%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) DigitalOcean
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (10.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) git-flow
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (30.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) iGaming
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) 3D Artist
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) Flutter
3 2 (20.00%) Laravel
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (20.00%) V-Ray
3 2 (20.00%) Vue
4 1 (10.00%) Corona SDK
4 1 (10.00%) DirectX
4 1 (10.00%) LangChain
4 1 (10.00%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Animation
2 1 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (10.00%) Photography
2 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (10.00%) Robotics
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (30.00%) Texturing
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile Development
2 2 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Twin
3 1 (10.00%) Game Development
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Use Case
3 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) C++
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Autodesk
2 1 (10.00%) Perforce