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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 856 910
Rank change year-on-year +376 +54 +117
Permanent jobs citing WebGL 237 56 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.054% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.49% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 20 47 34
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% +34.88%
75th Percentile £49,375 £75,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £72,000 £76,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £60,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -50.00% -12.73% +30.95%

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 9,499 21,396 29,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.14% 20.72% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 15,919 18,040
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,810
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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 30 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 30 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 +360 236 £30,000 -50.00% 233
Work from Home +297 222 £57,500 -23.33% 98
UK excluding London +231 82 £30,000 -50.00% 241
London +176 70 £70,000 -3.45% 18
South East +125 41 £30,000 -50.00% 61
East of England - 26 - - 36
South West +108 6 - - 27
North of England +45 4 - - 59
Midlands - 4 - - 46
North West +10 3 - - 26
East Midlands - 2 - - 19
West Midlands - 2 - - 24
Scotland +92 1 £45,000 -25.00% 9
North East - 1 - - 6

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 (90.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (8.02%) gulp
2 18 (7.59%) webpack
3 16 (6.75%) 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
1 236 (99.58%) Games
2 6 (2.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (1.69%) iGaming
3 4 (1.69%) Retail
4 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 216 (91.14%) Senior
2 21 (8.86%) Developer
3 19 (8.02%) Games Developer
4 14 (5.91%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (0.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (0.84%) Lead
5 2 (0.84%) Lead Developer
6 1 (0.42%) 3D 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 (90.72%) GraphQL
1 215 (90.72%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 20 (8.44%) Pixi.js
3 19 (8.02%) Node.js
4 14 (5.91%) Spine.js
5 7 (2.95%) HTML
6 6 (2.53%) CSS
7 4 (1.69%) Babylonjs
7 4 (1.69%) JSON
7 4 (1.69%) RxJS
7 4 (1.69%) XML
8 3 (1.27%) HTML5
9 2 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.84%) Playwright
9 2 (0.84%) Sass
10 1 (0.42%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.42%) CSS3
10 1 (0.42%) Material-UI
10 1 (0.42%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (0.42%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 216 (91.14%) Animation
2 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.42%) 3D Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (90.72%) 3D Animation
1 215 (90.72%) Artificial Intelligence
1 215 (90.72%) Problem-Solving
1 215 (90.72%) Prototyping
1 215 (90.72%) Rapid Prototyping
1 215 (90.72%) Storytelling
1 215 (90.72%) Visual Effects
2 4 (1.69%) OOP
2 4 (1.69%) Web Development
3 3 (1.27%) Mathematics
3 3 (1.27%) Mentoring
4 2 (0.84%) Manual Testing
4 2 (0.84%) Mobile First
4 2 (0.84%) Physics
4 2 (0.84%) Statistics
4 2 (0.84%) Test Automation
5 1 (0.42%) Game Development
5 1 (0.42%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (0.42%) Software Testing
5 1 (0.42%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 215 (90.72%) HLSL
2 20 (8.44%) JavaScript
3 18 (7.59%) 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