Unreal Engine Job Trends in the West Midlands

Unreal Engine
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Unreal Engine skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 206 195
Rank change year-on-year +38 -11 +93
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 1 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.031% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 1.00% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £40,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile - £42,500 £57,813
90th Percentile - - £65,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% -7.69% +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 450 898 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.82% 14.81% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 338 534 553
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,434
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,938 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unreal Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unreal Engine in the West Midlands

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Unreal Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unreal Engine within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Warwickshire - 1 - - 2
Unreal Engine
England

Unreal Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Maya
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Hub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Artist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Texturing
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Autodesk