WebGL Job Trends

WebGL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WebGL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 672 692
Rank change year-on-year +32 +20 +184
Permanent jobs citing WebGL 5 42 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.078% 0.055%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.071% 0.36% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5 34 26
10th Percentile - - £48,125
25th Percentile £85,000 £27,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £30,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -52.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £49,375 £82,813
90th Percentile - £79,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £30,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -50.00% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebGL 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 7,022 11,524 13,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 21.45% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,238 6,766 11,053
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

WebGL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WebGL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

WebGL job vacancy trend in the UK

WebGL
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebGL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebGL

WebGL
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebGL within the UK over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Work from Home +74 5 £90,000 +12.50% 29
London +52 5 £90,000 +56.52% 2
England +29 5 £90,000 +200.00% 26

WebGL
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Chief Technology Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) Symfony
1 5 (100.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Educational Technology
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 5 (100.00%) Objectives and Key Results
1 5 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 5 (100.00%) PHP