Unreal Engine Job Trends

Unreal Engine
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Unreal Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 704 694
Rank change year-on-year +45 -10 +347
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 11 82 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.54% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10 37 47
10th Percentile £38,500 £39,888 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £77,500 - £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year - -24.44% +7.14%

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 7,837 15,210 16,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 19.61% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,961 9,829 13,754
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -3.76% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Unreal Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine over the 6 months to 15 September 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 15 September 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 +49 10 £47,500 -20.83% 24
UK excluding London +53 6 £42,500 - 20
Work from Home +55 5 £60,000 +26.32% 8
London +55 4 £62,500 +4.17% 9
North of England +14 4 £42,500 -57.50% 1
North East +13 3 £42,500 -57.50%
West Midlands +46 1 - - 3
Midlands +43 1 - - 3
South East +32 1 £47,500 +18.75% 9
North West +7 1 £37,500 -9.06%

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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (9.09%) Houdini
2 1 (9.09%) Maya
2 1 (9.09%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Hub
1 1 (9.09%) GIS
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 4 (36.36%) Games
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) French Language
3 2 (18.18%) German Language
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) iGaming
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Animator
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Sales Manager
3 1 (9.09%) 3D Artist
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Junior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (9.09%) Electron
2 1 (9.09%) LangChain
2 1 (9.09%) Laravel
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) V-Ray
2 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Animation
2 3 (27.27%) Robotics
3 2 (18.18%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (9.09%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Business Development
1 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
1 3 (27.27%) Storyboarding
1 3 (27.27%) Storytelling
1 3 (27.27%) Use Case
1 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) B2B
2 2 (18.18%) B2B Sales
2 2 (18.18%) Building Information Modelling
2 2 (18.18%) CAD
2 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Texturing
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Data Science
3 1 (9.09%) LLM
3 1 (9.09%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Autodesk
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Perforce