Animation leads the market at 31.9% of postings, while Unreal Engine and C++ form a secondary tier at 26.1% and 20.7% respectively. The USA accounts for just under a quarter of all postings at 24.4%, with Roblox emerging as the largest single employer at 163 open roles. AI-adjacent skills remain marginal, touching 4.1% of the market.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends987 art postings
Animation skills lead at 541 postings this week, with Animator roles at 119 openings. Maya remains the most-requested tool among artists, followed by Unreal Engine and Photoshop.
Roblox and Epic Games led with
163 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
32%, ahead of Unreal Engine (26%) and C++ (21%).
Japan carried
562 of
2296 postings, with USA (521) and Canada (376) trailing.
25 more countries shared the long tail across 73 sources.
Skills on the move
trend over the last few weeks
Skills on the move: the skills whose demand changed the most over the last few weeks. The blue number on the left is how many open postings name that skill right now; the line shows the week-by-week move; the arrow and % are the overall trend (green = rising, red = falling). Sorted by how much the demand actually moved.
Week 2026-W372296 open postings, collected this week from 73 public hiring sources - studios' own careers pages and the public job boards they post to.Only currently-listed, public roles - nothing behind a login.