Week 2026-W21 · 2026-05-18

Creative tech market report

Insight of the week
Environments leads this week with 72 postings (77% of all listings).
93
Postings analyzed
14
Studios hiring
11
Countries
5
Sources tracked
Skill demand

Top skills · all disciplines

Ranked by frequency across 93 postings collected this week.

Top 10 skills · 2026-W21 Free
Environmentsspecialty
77%
Animationspecialty
56%
Unreal Enginesoftware
35%
Mayasoftware
33%
Unitysoftware
30%
Photoshopsoftware
26%
Lightingspecialty
23%
Pythonlanguage
19%
C++language
18%
Riggingspecialty
18%
Discipline breakdown

VFX / Film

Top skills in VFX postings this week.

VFX top skills · 2026-W21 Free
Animation
71%
Environments
66%
Maya
41%
Houdini
37%
Python
32%
Lighting
32%
Unreal Engine
29%
Unity
29%

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Studios

Top studios hiring

Studios with the most active postings this week.

#1 Scopely games, vfx, motion 29
#2 Riot Games games, vfx, techart 24
#3 Epic Games games, techart, vfx 16
#4 Rockstar Games games, techart, vfx 9
#5 Rising Sun Pictures techart, vfx, motion 3

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Geography

Where the jobs are

Top countries by posting count this week.

USA 28
Spain 20
Canada 11
UK 7
China 7
Australia 5
Singapore 4
India 3
Salary intelligence

What studios pay

Salary ranges by discipline, seniority, and country — normalized to USD.

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Currently tracking 0 distinct (discipline / seniority / country) bands with sample size ≥ 5.

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Sources · Week 2026-W21 greenhouse_rockstargames — 9 postings greenhouse_riotgames — 22 postings greenhouse_epicgames — 16 postings greenhouse_scopely — 29 postings rebelway — 17 postings Total: 93 from 5 sources

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