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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 368 421
Rank change year-on-year +16 +53 +130
Contract jobs citing Unreal Engine 9 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.068% 0.069% 0.086%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 13
10th Percentile £209 - £278
25th Percentile £258 £267 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £342 £422
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% -18.96% +5.50%
75th Percentile £437 £432 £475
90th Percentile £493 £432 £530
England median daily rate £433 £342 £400
% change year-on-year +26.46% -14.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £42.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £42.50
75th Percentile - £42.75 £48.13
90th Percentile - - £50.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -

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 3,471 4,265 5,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.11% 26.92% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,351 2,820 4,112
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 40
10th Percentile £31.77 £24.12 £34.58
25th Percentile £34.17 £37.50 £39.02
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.97 £72.41
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%

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 20 October 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
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 20 October 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 - - 2
Unreal Engine
England

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 (33.33%) Adobe After Effects
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (11.11%) Blender
2 1 (11.11%) Maya
2 1 (11.11%) SPSS
2 1 (11.11%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
General
1 8 (88.89%) Games
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Games Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Graphic Artist
1 2 (22.22%) Motion Graphics Artist
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Animator
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Geospatial Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) User Experience Researcher
2 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Godot
1 3 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) MapLibre
2 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Animation
2 2 (22.22%) Motion Graphics
2 2 (22.22%) Video Editing
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) AI
3 1 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (11.11%) ANOVA
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
3 1 (11.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science
3 1 (11.11%) Game Development
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Psychology
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Texturing
3 1 (11.11%) Usability Testing
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) R
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (22.22%) YouTube
3 1 (11.11%) Autodesk
3 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA