New report shows high demand for real-time 3D skills in global job market

Last year, we commissioned Burning Glass Technologies, a labor market analytics firm, to research the demand for 3D graphics and real-time 3D skills in the US workforce. The report found robust demand for competency in 3D graphics across multiple industries, with a particularly significant increase in the demand for real-time 3D skills, pegged at 601% faster growth than the job market overall.

In an addendum to the initial report, we have once again collaborated with Burning Glass to broaden this research to encompass an international selection of other English-speaking countries around the world—including the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore—as well as 20 European Union nations. 

As before, Burning Glass mined their database of nearly a billion historical and current job postings for a list of keywords associated with 3D graphics and real-time 3D.

The results are in, and they did not disappoint: the research clearly shows that 3D graphics and real-time 3D skills are in high demand across the globe, and that this demand is growing at a significant rate—in some cases, showing even more noteworthy trends than for the US.
 

Demand for real-time 3D skills is seeing global growth

In the European and English-speaking non-US countries the study analyzed, there were almost 34,000 job openings where real-time 3D skills were identified as being in demand in 2019. Since 2013, all countries where growth data was available showed at least a doubling in demand for these skills, with Singapore showing an incredible 30-times greater demand.