Unreal Engine Contracts in London

Unreal Engine
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Unreal Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unreal Engine over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 378 475
Rank change year-on-year +27 +97 +118
Contract jobs citing Unreal Engine 9 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.10% 0.047%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.38% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 9
10th Percentile £263 £271 £270
25th Percentile £308 £288 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% -7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £436 £375 £438
90th Percentile £437 £432 £473
England median daily rate £320 £325 £350
% change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £39.25 £25.75
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +60.38% -44.21%
75th Percentile - £42.75 £43.63
90th Percentile - - £53.45
England median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% +10.39% -18.95%

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 3,504 4,756 6,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.37% 27.03% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,442 3,492 5,137
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 43
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £48.75
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -37.04% +38.48%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £85.85
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%

Unreal Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unreal Engine in London

Unreal Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unreal Engine in London.

Daily rate trend for Unreal Engine in London

Unreal Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Unreal Engine in London

Unreal Engine
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unreal Engine in London.

Hourly rate trend for Unreal Engine in London

Unreal Engine
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unreal Engine within the London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 1 - - 9
Unreal Engine
England

Unreal Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (11.11%) Maya
1 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
1 1 (11.11%) SPSS
1 1 (11.11%) Stata
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 9 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Animator
2 2 (22.22%) Games Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) 3D Artist
3 1 (11.11%) Geospatial Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Artist
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Godot
2 2 (22.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (11.11%) MapLibre
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Animation
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Game Development
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) ANOVA
3 1 (11.11%) Application Security
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science
3 1 (11.11%) Focus Group
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) UX Research
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) R
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Perforce