Unreal Engine
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Unreal Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unreal Engine over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 833 987
Rank change year-on-year +22 +154 -178
Permanent jobs citing Unreal Engine 85 142 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.47% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 64 87 75
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,259
25th Percentile £39,720 £45,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +20.93%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £86,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +71.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Unreal Engine is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,036 30,236 65,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.13% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 15,734 18,665 30,089
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unreal Engine in the UK

Unreal Engine
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unreal Engine.

Salary trend for Unreal Engine in the UK

Unreal Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Unreal Engine in the UK

Unreal Engine
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unreal Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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 +30 85 £60,000 +4.35% 62
UK excluding London -23 56 £60,000 - 46
London +90 29 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South East -5 19 £60,000 -14.29% 11
North of England +41 12 £41,235 -58.77% 8
North West +14 12 £41,235 - 2
Work from Home +8 12 £47,500 -11.63% 39
Midlands -3 12 £75,000 +114.29% 18
West Midlands -6 8 £75,000 +114.29% 18
South West -25 8 £45,000 -10.00% 2
East of England +8 5 £125,000 - 5
East Midlands - 4 - -

Unreal Engine
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.71%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) CMS
2 2 (2.35%) IIS
2 2 (2.35%) Liferay
2 2 (2.35%) Magnolia
2 2 (2.35%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (10.59%) AutoCAD
1 9 (10.59%) Revit
2 5 (5.88%) 3ds Max
2 5 (5.88%) Maya
2 5 (5.88%) Photoshop
3 4 (4.71%) MotionBuilder
4 3 (3.53%) Blender
5 2 (2.35%) Houdini
6 1 (1.18%) Sketch
6 1 (1.18%) ZBrush
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 5 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (2.35%) Azure
3 2 (2.35%) npm
3 2 (2.35%) PaaS
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.18%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (1.18%) Figma
4 1 (1.18%) Firebase
4 1 (1.18%) GCP
4 1 (1.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.35%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (2.35%) DB2
2 2 (2.35%) DTS
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.18%) Big Data
3 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Git
2 10 (11.76%) Subversion
3 5 (5.88%) JIRA
4 3 (3.53%) GitLab
5 2 (2.35%) Bower
5 2 (2.35%) git-flow
5 2 (2.35%) gulp
5 2 (2.35%) Moq
5 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (65.88%) Games
2 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Legal
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.71%) Advertising
6 4 (4.71%) Automotive
7 2 (2.35%) Electronics
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (34.12%) Developer
2 12 (14.12%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) Games Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Development Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Head of IT
5 9 (10.59%) Lead
6 8 (9.41%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Designer
9 4 (4.71%) Games Designer
9 4 (4.71%) Games Programmer
9 4 (4.71%) Product Specialist
9 4 (4.71%) Programmer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Designer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Games Designer
10 3 (3.53%) Junior
10 3 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Junior Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Junior Web Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (30.59%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 13 (15.29%) V-Ray
3 4 (4.71%) Corona SDK
3 4 (4.71%) CryEngine
3 4 (4.71%) CSS
3 4 (4.71%) HTML
4 3 (3.53%) DirectX
4 3 (3.53%) Kafka
4 3 (3.53%) Node.js
4 3 (3.53%) React
4 3 (3.53%) React Native
4 3 (3.53%) Vulkan
5 2 (2.35%) Angular 2
5 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.35%) Autofac
5 2 (2.35%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.35%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.35%) LINQ to SQL
5 2 (2.35%) Redux
5 2 (2.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Virtual Reality
2 13 (15.29%) Augmented Reality
3 9 (10.59%) e-Learning
3 9 (10.59%) HoloLens
3 9 (10.59%) HTC Vive
3 9 (10.59%) Oculus
3 9 (10.59%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (8.24%) Algorithms
5 6 (7.06%) Animation
6 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.71%) Mobile App
7 4 (4.71%) Mobile Games
8 3 (3.53%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.53%) Ray Tracing
8 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (28.24%) Windows
2 5 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.88%) Physics
2 19 (22.35%) Computer Science
2 19 (22.35%) Game Development
2 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.82%) Mathematics
4 15 (17.65%) DevOps
5 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
6 12 (14.12%) Software Engineering
6 12 (14.12%) Software Testing
6 12 (14.12%) Use Case
7 10 (11.76%) Cross-Platform Development
7 10 (11.76%) Multithreading
8 9 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (10.59%) IT Strategy
8 9 (10.59%) Technology Strategy
8 9 (10.59%) Web Development
9 8 (9.41%) Visual Effects
10 7 (8.24%) Agile
10 7 (8.24%) Project Management
11 6 (7.06%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.71%) Python
2 16 (18.82%) C++
3 10 (11.76%) C
4 8 (9.41%) C#
4 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.24%) SQL
6 4 (4.71%) PHP
7 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.35%) Go
8 2 (2.35%) Java
8 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.35%) VB
8 2 (2.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 33 (38.82%) Degree
2 13 (15.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) PhD
4 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) GDPR
2 5 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Autodesk
2 10 (11.76%) Adobe
3 7 (8.24%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.88%) Apple
5 4 (4.71%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.35%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.35%) OpenText
6 2 (2.35%) Pega
6 2 (2.35%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.18%) Alias
7 1 (1.18%) Google