Games Jobs in the East of England

Gaming
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 145 48 182
Rank change year-on-year -97 +134 -102
Permanent jobs citing Games 84 297 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.39% 5.37% 1.37%
As % of the General category 2.47% 7.54% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 76 65 19
10th Percentile £37,500 £49,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,500 £94,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
East of England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,394 3,940 4,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 56.11% 71.27% 66.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 1,385 1,704
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,250 £26,325
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.18% -4.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in the East of England.

Salary trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the East of England

Games
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the East of 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +10 42 £65,000 +4.00% 14
Hertfordshire -70 16 £40,000 -52.24% 16
Suffolk +3 12 £22,500 - 7
Essex +3 9 £45,000 - 4
Norfolk -29 5 £45,000 -35.71% 4
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 2 (2.38%) Apache
1 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Blender
1 7 (8.33%) Maya
2 5 (5.95%) Adobe XD
2 5 (5.95%) Sketch
3 4 (4.76%) ZBrush
4 3 (3.57%) Houdini
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.19%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.52%) AWS
2 5 (5.95%) Figma
2 5 (5.95%) Stripe
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.38%) Azure
4 2 (2.38%) SaaS
5 1 (1.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.10%) Internet
1 11 (13.10%) Wireless
2 3 (3.57%) VSAN
3 1 (1.19%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.19%) Profibus
3 1 (1.19%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (2.38%) MySQL
2 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Redis
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) JIRA
1 6 (7.14%) Zephyr
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Electronics
3 4 (4.76%) Agriculture
3 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.19%) Finance
4 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.19%) Law
4 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.19%) Retail
4 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (33.33%) Senior
2 11 (13.10%) Analyst
2 11 (13.10%) Electronics Engineer
2 11 (13.10%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
2 11 (13.10%) Hardware Engineer
2 11 (13.10%) Senior Electronics Engineer
2 11 (13.10%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 10 (11.90%) Developer
4 8 (9.52%) Lead
4 8 (9.52%) Senior Developer
4 8 (9.52%) Test Analyst
5 7 (8.33%) 3D Artist
5 7 (8.33%) Machine Learning Researcher
5 7 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Applications Specialist
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (5.95%) UI Designer
7 5 (5.95%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 7 (8.33%) TensorFlow
1 7 (8.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (3.57%) CryEngine
2 3 (3.57%) DirectX
2 3 (3.57%) Unreal Engine
2 3 (3.57%) Vulkan
3 2 (2.38%) .NET
3 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.38%) Vue
4 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.19%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.19%) HTML
4 1 (1.19%) React
4 1 (1.19%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.19%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Animation
2 11 (13.10%) Algorithms
2 11 (13.10%) IoT
3 7 (8.33%) Blockchain
3 7 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (5.95%) Client/Server
4 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.76%) Motion Graphics
6 3 (3.57%) Clustering
6 3 (3.57%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.57%) Ray Tracing
6 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
2 3 (3.57%) Windows 10
2 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
3 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (13.10%) Texturing
4 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
5 8 (9.52%) Integration Testing
5 8 (9.52%) Test Scripting
6 7 (8.33%) Agile
6 7 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (8.33%) Cryptography
6 7 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (8.33%) Deep Learning
6 7 (8.33%) Game Theory
6 7 (8.33%) Machine Learning
6 7 (8.33%) Open Source
6 7 (8.33%) Probability Theory
6 7 (8.33%) Statistics
6 7 (8.33%) Time Management
6 7 (8.33%) Visualisation
6 7 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.67%) RPG
2 11 (13.10%) C#
2 11 (13.10%) Python
3 10 (11.90%) SQL
4 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.57%) PHP
4 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.19%) C++
5 1 (1.19%) Java
5 1 (1.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) ISEB
1 6 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (1.19%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) F5
2 5 (5.95%) Adobe
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) Rockwell
4 1 (1.19%) Siemens