WebGL Job Trends

WebGL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WebGL 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 663 745 744
Rank change year-on-year +82 -1 +300
Permanent jobs citing WebGL 7 41 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.053% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.089% 0.27% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 33 24
10th Percentile £46,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £27,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £31,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +106.35% -46.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £81,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £64,500 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £31,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +74.60% -47.50% +20.00%

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 7,837 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%

WebGL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebGL 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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebGL over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for WebGL in the UK

WebGL
Top 6 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 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 +88 6 £77,500 +146.03% 9
Work from Home +78 6 £65,000 +13.04% 5
UK excluding London +64 3 £55,000 +74.60% 6
London +80 2 £90,000 +60.00% 4
South East +22 2 £65,000 +116.67% 1
Scotland +55 1 £45,000 -40.00% 2

WebGL
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) gulp
2 1 (14.29%) PostCSS
2 1 (14.29%) rollup.js
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Vite
General
1 6 (85.71%) Games
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) 3D Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Games Developer
3 1 (14.29%) HTML Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) HTML5
1 3 (42.86%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (28.57%) Pixi.js
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
2 2 (28.57%) Sass
3 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Symfony
3 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (14.29%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Animation
2 1 (14.29%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (14.29%) Educational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
2 2 (28.57%) 3D Animation
2 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile First
2 2 (28.57%) Physics
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
2 2 (28.57%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (28.57%) Statistics
2 2 (28.57%) Storytelling
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Visual Effects
3 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Objectives and Key Results
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) HLSL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Rollbar