Online Games Contracts

Online Gaming
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Online Games over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 696 849
Rank change year-on-year +108 +153 -160
Contract jobs citing Online Games 2 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.012% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.015% 0.035% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £397 £316 -
25th Percentile £414 £319 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £413 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -19.51% -6.82%
75th Percentile £471 £633 £550
90th Percentile £489 £840 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Generic Skills
UK

Online Games is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,163 19,732 29,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 13,566 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.05 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in the UK

Online Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Online Games in the UK

Online Games
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Online Games over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Online Games in the UK

Online Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Online Games in the UK

Online Games
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
England +120 2 £443 +7.27% 39
Work from Home +122 1 £385 +14.07% 24
London +88 1 £385 -6.67% 22
North West - 1 £500 - 4
UK excluding London - 1 £500 - 21
North of England - 1 £500 - 9

Online Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Games Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (50.00%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility