Games Jobs in Kent

Gaming
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 100 97
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -34
Permanent jobs citing Games 12 4 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.80% 0.35% 1.76%
As % of the General category 1.49% 0.50% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -47.06% +54.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £47,500 £107,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +33.33%

All General Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 808 795 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 54.12% 69.19% 60.23%
Number of salaries quoted 566 311 367
10th Percentile £24,250 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,813 £35,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £47,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Kent

Games
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Games in Kent

Games
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Kent over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in Kent

Games
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Kent region over the 6 months to 4 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
West Malling -5 4 £65,000 -
Dartford - 3 £52,500 -
Maidstone - 2 £42,500 -
Swanley - 1 £52,500 -
Games
South East

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
General
1 4 (33.33%) Advertising
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) .NET
1 8 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 8 (66.67%) Entity Framework
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (33.33%) Blazor
2 4 (33.33%) CSS
2 4 (33.33%) CSS3
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) HTML5
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js
2 4 (33.33%) React
2 4 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) BDD
1 8 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
1 8 (66.67%) MVC
1 8 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Kanban
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C#
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Google