Games Jobs in Essex

Gaming
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 63 101
Rank change year-on-year -5 +38 -48
Permanent jobs citing Games 9 22 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 1.03% 2.57% 0.21%
As % of the General category 1.74% 3.15% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £45,500 - -
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.36% +25.00%

All General Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 518 699 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 59.13% 81.66% 71.82%
Number of salaries quoted 405 268 312
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% +8.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £80,000 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.68% -5.00%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Essex

Games
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Games in Essex

Games
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Essex over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in Essex

Games
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Essex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon - 4 £30,000 - 1
Colchester - 3 £45,000 - 1
Games
East of England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) VSAN
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (11.11%) Profibus
2 1 (11.11%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (44.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Applications Specialist
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) PLC Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) PLC Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Clustering
1 3 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Rockwell
2 1 (11.11%) Siemens