Unreal Engine Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Unreal Engine
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Unreal Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unreal Engine over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 578 595
Rank change year-on-year +181 +17 +145
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 16 11 76
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.033% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 0.12% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 59
10th Percentile £37,000 £22,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £38,563 £30,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -4.35% -28.13%
75th Percentile £61,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,750 - £78,000
UK median annual salary £43,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -27.50% +4.35% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,933 8,978 14,466
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.28% 26.53% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 7,510 10,860
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,225 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

Unreal Engine
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Unreal Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unreal Engine trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Unreal Engine over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Unreal Engine salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Unreal Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 2 (12.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Blender
1 4 (25.00%) Maya
2 2 (12.50%) 3ds Max
2 2 (12.50%) ZBrush
3 1 (6.25%) Houdini
3 1 (6.25%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) DigitalOcean
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) git-flow
General
1 10 (62.50%) Games
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Animator
4 1 (6.25%) Augmented Reality Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Creative Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Games Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Graphics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Graphics Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Graphics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Reality Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (12.50%) Flutter
2 2 (12.50%) Laravel
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (12.50%) Vue
2 2 (12.50%) web3js
3 1 (6.25%) Corona SDK
3 1 (6.25%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Animation
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (12.50%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Web3
3 1 (6.25%) Interactive Media
3 1 (6.25%) Mixed Reality
3 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Robotics
3 1 (6.25%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Texturing
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) Digital Twin
3 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 2 (12.50%) Memory Management
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile Development
3 2 (12.50%) OOP
3 2 (12.50%) Software Architecture
3 2 (12.50%) Storytelling
3 2 (12.50%) Time Management
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.25%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Perforce