Unreal Engine Contract Job Trends in London

Unreal Engine
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Unreal Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 374 410
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 +150
Contract jobs citing Unreal Engine 6 7 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.043% 0.045% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.17% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 15
10th Percentile - £331 £294
25th Percentile £209 £355 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £414 £430
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% -3.84% +7.50%
75th Percentile £438 £432 £530
90th Percentile £520 £432 -
England median daily rate £425 £378 £422
% change year-on-year +12.51% -10.49% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £48.13
90th Percentile - - £50.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £42.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Unreal Engine falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,667 4,116 5,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.36% 26.27% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,501 2,691 3,988
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 35
10th Percentile £31.61 £32.99 £33.20
25th Percentile £34.87 £38.31 £38.05
Median hourly rate £51.44 £47.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% -21.25% +2.13%
75th Percentile £61.88 £60.76 £72.83
90th Percentile £87.50 £73.70 £88.62
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unreal Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Unreal Engine job vacancy trend in London

Unreal Engine
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unreal Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unreal Engine in London over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unreal Engine in London

Unreal Engine
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unreal Engine.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (16.67%) Blender
2 1 (16.67%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
General
1 5 (83.33%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Graphic Artist
1 2 (33.33%) Motion Graphics Artist
2 1 (16.67%) Animator
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Games Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (16.67%) Godot
2 1 (16.67%) LangChain
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Animation
2 2 (33.33%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (33.33%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Conversational AI
2 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
2 1 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Game Development
2 1 (16.67%) LLM
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Understanding
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Speech Recognition
2 1 (16.67%) Texturing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
2 2 (33.33%) YouTube
3 1 (16.67%) Autodesk
3 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA