Games Jobs in England

Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 68 105
Rank change year-on-year -153 +37 +50
Permanent jobs citing Games 1,145 4,271 4,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.35% 4.61% 3.31%
As % of the General category 2.28% 6.72% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 887 797 1,533
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,875 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +27.27%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,300 63,582 83,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.26% 68.63% 63.48%
Number of salaries quoted 35,499 34,376 45,137
10th Percentile £27,445 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,990 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,047 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +0.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,102 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Games in England

Games
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in England

Games
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -134 325 £66,250 -3.28% 249
North of England -135 258 £52,500 +5.00% 139
South West -13 191 £43,500 -20.91% 40
South East -85 144 £50,000 -23.08% 143
Midlands -161 132 £52,500 +16.67% 68
North West -150 125 £45,000 -12.20% 88
West Midlands -122 98 £53,750 +31.10% 44
East of England -96 84 £60,000 -25.00% 59
North East +50 69 £64,080 +34.91% 18
Yorkshire -98 64 £50,000 +2.56% 34
East Midlands -110 34 £52,500 +5.57% 25
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 99 (8.65%) Confluence
2 76 (6.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.52%) CMS
6 6 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2000
6 6 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.52%) WordPress
7 5 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.26%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache
9 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.17%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.087%) TYPO3
Applications
1 19 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.22%) AutoCAD
3 11 (0.96%) Blender
3 11 (0.96%) Maya
3 11 (0.96%) Revit
4 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.79%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.70%) Sketch
7 7 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.52%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.35%) MotionBuilder
10 4 (0.35%) Simulink
10 4 (0.35%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.35%) ZBrush
11 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.26%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 42 (3.67%) Endur
2 8 (0.70%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.087%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 167 (14.59%) AWS
2 150 (13.10%) Azure
3 67 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (3.23%) SaaS
5 33 (2.88%) Serverless
6 28 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 21 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (1.83%) GitHub
9 20 (1.75%) Power Platform
10 18 (1.57%) Figma
11 17 (1.48%) dbt
12 14 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (1.22%) Google Workspace
13 13 (1.14%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 11 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (0.79%) Asana
16 9 (0.79%) GCP
17 8 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.45%) Firewall
2 36 (3.14%) Wireless
3 18 (1.57%) Broadband
4 16 (1.40%) DNS
5 13 (1.14%) VPN
6 12 (1.05%) Internet
6 12 (1.05%) LAN
6 12 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (0.87%) NAS
8 9 (0.79%) Network Security
9 8 (0.70%) WAN
10 5 (0.44%) BGP
11 4 (0.35%) DHCP
12 3 (0.26%) IPv6
12 3 (0.26%) VoIP
12 3 (0.26%) VSAN
13 2 (0.17%) HTTP
13 2 (0.17%) MPLS
13 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 70 (6.11%) MySQL
3 50 (4.37%) Relational Database
4 49 (4.28%) Redis
5 48 (4.19%) RDBMS
6 35 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (1.92%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (1.75%) Power BI
11 19 (1.66%) Tableau
12 15 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.87%) Big Data
13 10 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.87%) Looker
14 9 (0.79%) Couchbase
15 8 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.70%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 147 (12.84%) Git
2 121 (10.57%) JIRA
3 91 (7.95%) Visual Studio
4 89 (7.77%) Bitbucket
5 59 (5.15%) Sourcetree
6 18 (1.57%) TeamCity
7 14 (1.22%) Jenkins
8 12 (1.05%) gulp
9 11 (0.96%) Subversion
10 7 (0.61%) Grunt
11 6 (0.52%) PostCSS
11 6 (0.52%) rollup.js
11 6 (0.52%) Vite
11 6 (0.52%) webpack
11 6 (0.52%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.44%) JUnit
13 4 (0.35%) Storybook
13 4 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
General
1 292 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 143 (12.49%) Finance
3 94 (8.21%) Presentation Skills
4 84 (7.34%) Marketing
5 80 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (3.76%) Manufacturing
8 38 (3.32%) Retail
9 33 (2.88%) Legal
10 28 (2.45%) Advertising
11 26 (2.27%) Law
12 22 (1.92%) Electronics
13 21 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.75%) Aerospace
15 18 (1.57%) Banking
16 17 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.31%) Military
18 14 (1.22%) Public Sector
18 14 (1.22%) Telecoms
19 13 (1.14%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 353 (30.83%) Developer
2 236 (20.61%) Senior
3 164 (14.32%) Games Developer
4 98 (8.56%) .NET Developer
5 91 (7.95%) 3D Developer
6 89 (7.77%) Lead
7 88 (7.69%) Unity 3D Developer
8 84 (7.34%) Senior Developer
9 73 (6.38%) Project Manager
10 67 (5.85%) Analyst
11 51 (4.45%) C# Developer
12 45 (3.93%) Senior Games Developer
13 44 (3.84%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.84%) Software Engineer
14 42 (3.67%) Data Engineer
15 41 (3.58%) Architect
16 36 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
17 35 (3.06%) Lead Developer
18 32 (2.79%) Designer
19 31 (2.71%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (12.58%) .NET
2 136 (11.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 92 (8.03%) HTML
4 79 (6.90%) .NET Core
5 66 (5.76%) ASP.NET
6 63 (5.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 63 (5.50%) React
7 62 (5.41%) CSS
8 57 (4.98%) Unreal Engine
9 56 (4.89%) Node.js
10 55 (4.80%) AngularJS
11 47 (4.10%) HTML5
12 45 (3.93%) RESTful
12 45 (3.93%) Vue
13 44 (3.84%) Entity Framework
14 41 (3.58%) Kafka
15 40 (3.49%) ASP.NET Web API
16 30 (2.62%) .NET Framework
17 27 (2.36%) Blazor
18 25 (2.18%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 127 (11.09%) Virtual Reality
2 61 (5.33%) Client/Server
3 49 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (3.67%) Swaptions
5 38 (3.32%) Algorithms
6 37 (3.23%) Online Games
7 36 (3.14%) Animation
8 35 (3.06%) Management Information System
9 31 (2.71%) Social Media
10 26 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 26 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (2.01%) Augmented Reality
11 23 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
11 23 (2.01%) Mobile App
11 23 (2.01%) Product Ownership
12 22 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (1.48%) Oculus
13 17 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.31%) Driving Licence
14 15 (1.31%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 119 (10.39%) Windows
2 41 (3.58%) Linux
3 39 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.01%) Mac OS
5 20 (1.75%) Android
6 14 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.87%) Unix
8 10 (0.87%) Windows Vista
9 9 (0.79%) VMS
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.26%) Debian
12 3 (0.26%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (17.55%) Agile
2 200 (17.47%) Software Engineering
3 173 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
4 141 (12.31%) Scrum
5 117 (10.22%) DevOps
6 113 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
6 113 (9.87%) Design Patterns
7 110 (9.61%) Computer Science
8 108 (9.43%) Mentoring
9 107 (9.34%) Full Stack Development
9 107 (9.34%) Project Management
10 104 (9.08%) Use Case
11 97 (8.47%) Mathematics
12 88 (7.69%) Analytics
12 88 (7.69%) UML
13 82 (7.16%) Roadmaps
14 80 (6.99%) Decision-Making
15 78 (6.81%) MVC
16 63 (5.50%) Data Modelling
16 63 (5.50%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 278 (24.28%) C#
2 183 (15.98%) SQL
3 155 (13.54%) JavaScript
4 132 (11.53%) Python
5 73 (6.38%) TypeScript
6 69 (6.03%) Java
7 45 (3.93%) VB
8 43 (3.76%) PHP
9 42 (3.67%) C++
10 26 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 19 (1.66%) T-SQL
12 17 (1.48%) Bash
13 16 (1.40%) C
14 14 (1.22%) RPG
15 12 (1.05%) Go
16 9 (0.79%) Rust
17 5 (0.44%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.44%) R
18 2 (0.17%) Perl
18 2 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 333 (29.08%) Degree
2 188 (16.42%) Security Cleared
3 131 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 102 (8.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.32%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.22%) CCNA
10 13 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.05%) CCNP
12 10 (0.87%) CCNA CyberOps
12 10 (0.87%) MCP
12 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.70%) A+ Certification
13 8 (0.70%) PhD
14 7 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.52%) HNC
15 6 (0.52%) ISEB
15 6 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.84%) GDPR
2 31 (2.71%) QA
3 29 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 24 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.70%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.61%) SLA
10 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.26%) NIST
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
12 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.17%) ITGC
12 2 (0.17%) PMO
12 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.087%) COSHH
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.087%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 45 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.58%) Docker
3 24 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.087%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (2.88%) Terraform
2 30 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.87%) SCCM
6 9 (0.79%) QRadar
7 8 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (0.61%) Ansible
8 7 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.61%) WSUS
9 3 (0.26%) Salt
10 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.087%) Puppet
11 1 (0.087%) WMI
Vendors
1 258 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.10%) Oracle
3 43 (3.76%) Apple
4 42 (3.67%) OpenLink
4 42 (3.67%) Sybase
4 42 (3.67%) TIBCO
5 41 (3.58%) Google
6 36 (3.14%) Adobe
7 26 (2.27%) Cisco
8 24 (2.10%) VMware
9 18 (1.57%) IFS
10 16 (1.40%) Workday
11 14 (1.22%) Autodesk
12 11 (0.96%) Databricks
13 10 (0.87%) Dell
13 10 (0.87%) Draytek
13 10 (0.87%) YouTube
14 9 (0.79%) Darktrace
14 9 (0.79%) F5
15 7 (0.61%) Instagram