Unreal Engine is named in 257 open roles at the end of Oct 20, 71 of them at Epic Games

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model, from public records. Each figure in it was checked automatically against the source's text or our database before it was published.

At the end of Oct 20, 2026 (UTC), 257 open roles named Unreal Engine, 5 more than the 252 a week earlier. 71 of the 257 were at Epic Games and its companies, which make the engine. That is 14.2% of the 1,812 open roles on Oct 20.1^,2^,3^,4^,5

Unity was named in 94 open roles, 2 fewer than the 96 a week earlier; in the boards we read, 0 of the 94 were at Unity Technologies and its companies, which make it. Godot was named in 4 open roles, 1 more than the 3 a week earlier. In all, 293 open roles named a game engine we track; a role that names several engines counts under each, so the engine counts overlap. A role that names an engine is a sign the studio uses it, not a list of everything the studio uses.6^,7^,8^,9^,10^,11

C++ was named in 271 open roles, 7 more than a week earlier, and Python in 271, 2 more. Compared with a week earlier, SQL was named in 144 roles (3 fewer), C# in 108 (2 fewer), Go in 103 (1 more) and Java in 92 (1 more). Lua was named in 45 roles (3 more than a week earlier) and Rust in 42 (2 fewer).12^,13^,14^,15^,16^,17^,18^,19

Counting each company group with its companies, Unreal Engine is named most at Tencent (77 open roles), Epic Games (71), Take-Two Interactive (47), Sony Group (16) and Public Investment Fund (9). Unity is named most at Public Investment Fund (29), Tencent (25), Take-Two Interactive (10), Sony Group (6) and Dream Games (5). C++ is named most at Roblox (82), Tencent (47) and Sony Group (40), and Python at Sony Group (71) and Roblox (61).20^,21^,22^,23^,24^,25^,26^,27^,28^,29^,30^,31^,32^,33^,34

The counts are of open roles, not hires: a role is one company's postings that share a title, and an open role is not a hire. Our records cover the hiring boards of 41 companies in 31 company groups, and a company that hires through a closed system such as Workday is not read, so a company missing here is not a company without openings, and a zero here is none in the boards we read. Our records of the hiring boards begin on Sep 26, 2026, when the first board was read; a collector run began on 16 of the 25 days to the end of Oct 20, and none began on Sep 27 to Sep 28, Sep 30 to Oct 5 or Oct 11. The counts are for the end of Oct 20, as our records stood when this article was written, and a posting confirmed or closed later can move a recount by a few roles.35^,8^,36^,5