WebGL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WebGL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WebGL over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 858 902
Rank change year-on-year +375 +44 +125
Permanent jobs citing WebGL 236 56 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.055% 0.052%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 0.26% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 19 47 33
10th Percentile - £38,900 £48,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -17.24% +38.10%
75th Percentile £40,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £62,000 £76,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -50.00% -17.24% +38.10%

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 9,277 21,317 29,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 20.77% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,706 15,893 18,093
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,230 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% +3.85%
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%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WebGL.

Salary trend for WebGL in the UK

WebGL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebGL over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WebGL in the UK

WebGL
Top 14 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 29 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 +374 235 £30,000 -50.00% 23
Work from Home +297 221 £50,000 -33.33% 20
UK excluding London +231 81 £30,000 -50.00% 15
London +162 70 £70,000 -3.45% 7
South East +135 40 £30,000 -50.00% 4
East of England - 26 - -
South West +120 6 - -
North of England +37 4 - - 9
Midlands - 4 - - 2
North West +8 3 - - 5
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland +98 1 £45,000 -25.00%
North East - 1 - -

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:

Communications & Networking
1 215 (91.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (8.05%) gulp
2 18 (7.63%) webpack
3 15 (6.36%) Git
4 4 (1.69%) Grunt
5 1 (0.42%) PostCSS
5 1 (0.42%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.42%) Subversion
5 1 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 235 (99.58%) Games
2 6 (2.54%) Social Skills
3 4 (1.69%) iGaming
3 4 (1.69%) Retail
4 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 216 (91.53%) Senior
2 20 (8.47%) Developer
3 18 (7.63%) Games Developer
4 14 (5.93%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (0.85%) Lead
5 2 (0.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (0.42%) 3D Developer
6 1 (0.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (0.42%) HTML Developer
6 1 (0.42%) Manual Tester
6 1 (0.42%) Senior Developer
6 1 (0.42%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (0.42%) Software Developer
6 1 (0.42%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (91.10%) GraphQL
1 215 (91.10%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 19 (8.05%) Node.js
2 19 (8.05%) Pixi.js
3 14 (5.93%) Spine.js
4 6 (2.54%) CSS
4 6 (2.54%) HTML
5 4 (1.69%) Babylonjs
5 4 (1.69%) JSON
5 4 (1.69%) RxJS
5 4 (1.69%) XML
6 2 (0.85%) HTML5
6 2 (0.85%) Playwright
6 2 (0.85%) Sass
7 1 (0.42%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.42%) CSS3
7 1 (0.42%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.42%) Material-UI
7 1 (0.42%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.42%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 216 (91.53%) Animation
2 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.42%) 3D Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (91.10%) 3D Animation
1 215 (91.10%) Artificial Intelligence
1 215 (91.10%) Problem-Solving
1 215 (91.10%) Prototyping
1 215 (91.10%) Rapid Prototyping
1 215 (91.10%) Storytelling
1 215 (91.10%) Visual Effects
2 4 (1.69%) OOP
2 4 (1.69%) Web Development
3 2 (0.85%) Manual Testing
3 2 (0.85%) Mathematics
3 2 (0.85%) Mentoring
3 2 (0.85%) Test Automation
4 1 (0.42%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.42%) Front End Development
4 1 (0.42%) Mobile First
4 1 (0.42%) Physics
4 1 (0.42%) Software Testing
4 1 (0.42%) Statistics
4 1 (0.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 215 (91.10%) HLSL
2 20 (8.47%) JavaScript
3 17 (7.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (0.42%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.42%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft
1 1 (0.42%) Rollbar