Animation leads skill demand at 32.9% of postings, followed by Unreal Engine at 26.0% and C++ at 21.7%. The USA accounts for 26.4% of the market. AI tools appear in none of the tracked postings this week.
- Navisca Data, weekly
Art Trends78 art postings
Animation skills lead art demand at 34 postings, with Unreal Engine and Lighting both near 32 and 24 respectively. Animator roles hold steady at 8 openings.
Roblox and Epic Games led with
175 postings each.
Animation topped the skill stack at
33%, ahead of Unreal Engine (26%) and C++ (22%).
Japan carried
556 of
2240 postings, with USA (553) and Canada (337) trailing.
29 more countries shared the long tail across 44 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-W402240 open postings, collected this week from 44 public hiring sources - studios' own careers pages and the public job boards they post to.Only currently-listed, public roles - nothing behind a login.