Games Contracts in England

Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 415 363
Rank change year-on-year +4 -52 +15
Contract jobs citing Games 124 258 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.51% 0.71%
As % of the General category 0.57% 0.86% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 214 416
10th Percentile £223 £250 £364
25th Percentile £325 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% -2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £539 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £419 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -16.20% - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £6.57 - £22.97
25th Percentile £22.62 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £39.92 £60.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.47% +31.87% +49.18%
75th Percentile £45.75 £67.50 £71.81
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £36.25 £60.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -39.58% +37.93% +21.93%

All General Skills
England

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Games in England

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in England.

Daily rate trend for Games in England

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in England

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Games in England.

Hourly rate trend for Games in England

Games
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Games in England

Games
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +45 66 £450 -10.00% 221
Midlands +22 18 £322 -1.08% 60
East of England -2 14 £375 -37.55% 50
West Midlands +25 11 £225 -25.00% 37
North of England +5 11 £500 +11.11% 131
East Midlands +22 7 £419 +15.59% 24
Yorkshire +7 7 £575 +9.52% 32
South West +23 4 £525 +90.91% 37
North West +2 4 £323 -22.29% 84
South East +18 1 - - 130
Games
UK

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.61%) CMS
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Photoshop
2 6 (4.84%) Adobe After Effects
2 6 (4.84%) Maya
3 5 (4.03%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (3.23%) Blender
5 3 (2.42%) Adobe XD
5 3 (2.42%) Sketch
6 2 (1.61%) 3ds Max
6 2 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (1.61%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.68%) AWS
2 7 (5.65%) Figma
2 7 (5.65%) SaaS
3 4 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 4 (3.23%) Azure
4 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.61%) Discord
5 2 (1.61%) Google Analytics
5 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.61%) Serverless
5 2 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.81%) dbt
6 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.81%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) Internet
1 2 (1.61%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.81%) Intranet
2 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (1.61%) MySQL
1 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
1 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.81%) Power BI
2 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.42%) JIRA
2 2 (1.61%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.61%) Git
2 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.81%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.81%) PostCSS
3 1 (0.81%) VTune
General
1 39 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.32%) Marketing
3 9 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Finance
5 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.61%) Advertising
7 2 (1.61%) Automotive
7 2 (1.61%) Back Office
7 2 (1.61%) Electronics
7 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 20 (16.13%) Lead
2 19 (15.32%) Developer
3 17 (13.71%) Designer
4 9 (7.26%) Games Designer
4 9 (7.26%) Senior
4 9 (7.26%) Software Engineer
4 9 (7.26%) Test Leader
4 9 (7.26%) UX Designer
5 8 (6.45%) Architect
6 6 (4.84%) Analyst
6 6 (4.84%) UI Designer
7 5 (4.03%) C++ Developer
7 5 (4.03%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.03%) Senior Designer
7 5 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.03%) UI/UX Designer
8 4 (3.23%) Salesforce Developer
8 4 (3.23%) Technical Writer
9 3 (2.42%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (2.42%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.13%) Unreal Engine
2 16 (12.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 9 (7.26%) React
4 8 (6.45%) HTML
5 7 (5.65%) CSS
6 4 (3.23%) FFmpeg
6 4 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (3.23%) REST
6 4 (3.23%) Visualforce
7 3 (2.42%) Kafka
8 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.61%) Node.js
8 2 (1.61%) React Native
8 2 (1.61%) V-Ray
8 2 (1.61%) WebGL
9 1 (0.81%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.81%) Redux
9 1 (0.81%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (0.81%) Vue
9 1 (0.81%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Virtual Reality
2 9 (7.26%) Augmented Reality
3 8 (6.45%) Mobile Games
4 7 (5.65%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.84%) Social Media
5 6 (4.84%) Video Editing
6 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.23%) Motion Graphics
8 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.42%) Animation
8 3 (2.42%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.42%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.61%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.61%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.61%) Online Games
9 2 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.61%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.03%) Android
1 5 (4.03%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Linux
3 3 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.32%) Agile
2 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (12.90%) User Experience
4 15 (12.10%) Web Development
5 14 (11.29%) UX Design
6 13 (10.48%) Mentoring
7 11 (8.87%) Game Development
7 11 (8.87%) Software Engineering
8 10 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (7.26%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (7.26%) Project Management
9 9 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (6.45%) Prototyping
10 8 (6.45%) Scenario Testing
10 8 (6.45%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.45%) Test Management
10 8 (6.45%) Test Planning
11 7 (5.65%) Change Management
11 7 (5.65%) Computer Science
11 7 (5.65%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
2 12 (9.68%) Python
3 11 (8.87%) C++
4 10 (8.06%) C#
4 10 (8.06%) SQL
5 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.23%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.42%) Rust
8 2 (1.61%) PHP
9 1 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) C
9 1 (0.81%) GLSL
9 1 (0.81%) HLSL
9 1 (0.81%) Java
9 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) Degree
2 4 (3.23%) PMP
3 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) QA
2 5 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.81%) Docker
1 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (1.61%) Terraform
2 1 (0.81%) Ansible
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.81%) Puppet
2 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.26%) Adobe
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.03%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.23%) Oracle
3 4 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 3 (2.42%) Instagram
4 3 (2.42%) SAP
5 2 (1.61%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.61%) Facebook
5 2 (1.61%) FireEye
5 2 (1.61%) Google
5 2 (1.61%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.61%) Okta
5 2 (1.61%) Splunk
5 2 (1.61%) TikTok
5 2 (1.61%) YouTube
6 1 (0.81%) Databricks
6 1 (0.81%) Twitter
6 1 (0.81%) VMware
6 1 (0.81%) Workday