Games Developer Jobs in England

Game Developer
UK > England

The median Game Developer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 910 1079
Rank change year-on-year +234 +169 -281
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Developer 164 43 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.046% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.050% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 164 41 27
10th Percentile £27,500 £41,250 £35,850
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £55,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,750 £85,000 £77,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Games Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Games Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Games Developer in England

Games Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games Developer in England.

Salary trend for Games Developer in England

Games Developer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Games Developer in England

Games Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games Developer 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South West +85 88 £36,000 -15.29%
London +142 32 £67,500 +3.85% 2
North of England +75 30 £48,750 +11.43% 2
North West +23 15 £41,235 -8.37%
North East - 15 £60,000 - 1
South East +34 9 £50,000 -6.98% 1
Midlands +12 5 £52,500 -12.50% 1
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands +27 2 £75,000 +25.00%
Games Developer
UK

Games Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Games Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Games Developer in the job title.

1 164 (100.00%) Games
2 138 (84.15%) C#
3 113 (68.90%) Degree
4 106 (64.63%) Software Engineering
4 106 (64.63%) Microsoft
5 94 (57.32%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 92 (56.10%) Virtual Reality
7 90 (54.88%) Git
8 88 (53.66%) Use Case
8 88 (53.66%) SC Cleared
8 88 (53.66%) Security Cleared
8 88 (53.66%) JIRA
8 88 (53.66%) Scrum
8 88 (53.66%) Visual Studio
8 88 (53.66%) UML
8 88 (53.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 88 (53.66%) Presentation Skills
8 88 (53.66%) Confluence
8 88 (53.66%) Bitbucket
8 88 (53.66%) Design Patterns
9 59 (35.98%) DevOps
9 59 (35.98%) Sourcetree
10 48 (29.27%) .NET
11 43 (26.22%) JavaScript
12 34 (20.73%) Multithreading
13 31 (18.90%) Full Stack Development
14 29 (17.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 29 (17.68%) Azure
14 29 (17.68%) HTML
15 28 (17.07%) SQL Server

Games Developer Skill Set
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 88 (53.66%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.68%) Azure
2 16 (9.76%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.37%) MySQL
3 16 (9.76%) Redis
4 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 90 (54.88%) Git
2 88 (53.66%) Bitbucket
2 88 (53.66%) JIRA
2 88 (53.66%) Visual Studio
3 59 (35.98%) Sourcetree
4 7 (4.27%) gulp
5 6 (3.66%) webpack
6 5 (3.05%) Grunt
7 1 (0.61%) PostCSS
7 1 (0.61%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.61%) Subversion
7 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 164 (100.00%) Games
2 88 (53.66%) Presentation Skills
3 18 (10.98%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (57.32%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 48 (29.27%) .NET
3 29 (17.68%) HTML
4 26 (15.85%) AngularJS
4 26 (15.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 26 (15.85%) RESTful
5 20 (12.20%) .NET Core
5 20 (12.20%) HTML5
6 18 (10.98%) ASP.NET
6 18 (10.98%) ASP.NET MVC
7 16 (9.76%) Kafka
8 15 (9.15%) LINQ
9 11 (6.71%) JSON
9 11 (6.71%) Unreal Engine
10 8 (4.88%) Node.js
10 8 (4.88%) Pixi.js
11 7 (4.27%) CSS
11 7 (4.27%) WebGL
12 6 (3.66%) Electron
13 5 (3.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 92 (56.10%) Virtual Reality
2 8 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.05%) Animation
3 5 (3.05%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.44%) Online Gambling
5 2 (1.22%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (1.22%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.22%) Mobile Games
5 2 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (64.63%) Software Engineering
2 88 (53.66%) Design Patterns
2 88 (53.66%) Scrum
2 88 (53.66%) UML
2 88 (53.66%) Use Case
3 59 (35.98%) DevOps
4 34 (20.73%) Multithreading
5 31 (18.90%) Full Stack Development
6 26 (15.85%) Computer Science
7 23 (14.02%) Microservices
8 19 (11.59%) Agile
9 18 (10.98%) MVC
10 16 (9.76%) SOLID
11 15 (9.15%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
12 13 (7.93%) Mathematics
13 8 (4.88%) Game Development
13 8 (4.88%) Low Latency
13 8 (4.88%) Statistics
14 7 (4.27%) User Experience
15 6 (3.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (84.15%) C#
2 43 (26.22%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.88%) PHP
4 6 (3.66%) SQL
5 3 (1.83%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.22%) C
6 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.61%) C++
7 1 (0.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 113 (68.90%) Degree
2 88 (53.66%) BPSS Clearance
2 88 (53.66%) SC Cleared
2 88 (53.66%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.76%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Docker
Vendors
1 106 (64.63%) Microsoft
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