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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 793 831
Rank change year-on-year +99 +38 +160
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 18 85 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.086% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.40% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17 64 87
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £39,720 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,750 £86,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.50% - -7.69%

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 9,497 21,024 30,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 21.23% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,223 15,725 18,834
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unreal Engine in the UK

Unreal Engine
Top 11 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 14 May 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 +74 17 £43,500 -27.50% 94
UK excluding London +143 15 £43,500 -27.50% 68
Work from Home +121 14 £43,500 -8.42% 76
North of England +46 6 £43,500 +5.49% 17
Yorkshire - 6 £43,500 - 4
South East +86 4 £65,000 +8.33% 28
South West +101 2 £37,500 -16.67% 3
London +87 2 £67,500 +22.73% 39
East of England +43 2 £37,000 -70.40% 4
Midlands +50 1 £35,000 -53.33% 12
East Midlands +30 1 £35,000 - 2

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 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Blender
1 5 (27.78%) Maya
2 4 (22.22%) 3ds Max
3 2 (11.11%) ZBrush
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (5.56%) Houdini
4 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
4 1 (5.56%) Pro Tools
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) DigitalOcean
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) git-flow
General
1 10 (55.56%) Games
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Animator
3 1 (5.56%) Augmented Reality Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Creative Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Games Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Instructor
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Programmer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Reality Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.11%) Flutter
3 2 (11.11%) Laravel
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (11.11%) Vue
4 1 (5.56%) Corona SDK
4 1 (5.56%) DirectX
4 1 (5.56%) OpenGL
4 1 (5.56%) V-Ray
4 1 (5.56%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Reality
2 3 (16.67%) Animation
2 3 (16.67%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.56%) Interactive Media
4 1 (5.56%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.56%) Robotics
4 1 (5.56%) Social Media
4 1 (5.56%) State Machine
4 1 (5.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Texturing
3 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (11.11%) CRM
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Twin
4 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
4 2 (11.11%) Memory Management
4 2 (11.11%) Mobile Development
4 2 (11.11%) OOP
4 2 (11.11%) Software Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Storytelling
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
4 2 (11.11%) Workflow
5 1 (5.56%) Data Integration
5 1 (5.56%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.56%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) C++
2 3 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
1 2 (11.11%) Perforce
2 1 (5.56%) Vectorworks