Games Jobs in the North of England

Gaming
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 34 109
Rank change year-on-year -115 +75 +34
Permanent jobs citing Games 274 1,308 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.57% 7.60% 3.04%
As % of the General category 2.82% 10.79% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 230 125 372
10th Percentile £24,196 £22,500 £36,654
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,900 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68,438 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £76,325 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
North 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 North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,701 12,119 10,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.55% 70.38% 58.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,348 5,143 6,040
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the North of England

Games
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Games in the North of England

Games
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the North of England

Games
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -141 138 £45,000 -10.00% 80
North East +48 70 £64,040 +34.82% 13
Yorkshire -94 66 £50,000 -5.66% 45
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 13 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.92%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) WordPress
4 2 (0.73%) CMS
4 2 (0.73%) IIS
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.73%) InDesign
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.36%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.09%) AWS
2 50 (18.25%) Azure
3 21 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (7.66%) Serverless
4 18 (6.57%) Amazon S3
5 16 (5.84%) SaaS
6 15 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.74%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (4.74%) dbt
8 11 (4.01%) GitHub
9 9 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.92%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 7 (2.55%) Figma
12 5 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.82%) DigitalOcean
12 5 (1.82%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.09%) Commercetools
13 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) Firewall
2 5 (1.82%) Broadband
3 3 (1.09%) Network Security
4 2 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.73%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.04%) MySQL
2 32 (11.68%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.66%) Redis
4 18 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.92%) Couchbase
6 8 (2.92%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.46%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.46%) OLTP
9 4 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.73%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.73%) QlikView
10 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.38%) Git
1 12 (4.38%) TeamCity
2 7 (2.55%) JIRA
3 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.73%) WiX
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) XCTest
General
1 94 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.03%) Retail
3 16 (5.84%) Billing
4 15 (5.47%) Finance
5 14 (5.11%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.38%) Legal
8 11 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.28%) Marketing
10 7 (2.55%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.19%) Local Government
12 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.46%) Banking
13 4 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.09%) Automotive
14 3 (1.09%) Publishing
15 2 (0.73%) Esports
16 1 (0.36%) iGaming
16 1 (0.36%) Law
16 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (36.50%) Developer
2 43 (15.69%) .NET Developer
3 35 (12.77%) Senior
4 33 (12.04%) Games Developer
5 30 (10.95%) C# Developer
6 27 (9.85%) Lead
7 25 (9.12%) C# .NET Developer
8 22 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (7.66%) Full Stack Developer
10 18 (6.57%) PHP Developer
11 14 (5.11%) Data Engineer
11 14 (5.11%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.74%) AWS Data Engineer
12 13 (4.74%) Delivery Manager
12 13 (4.74%) Lead Developer
12 13 (4.74%) Team Leader
13 12 (4.38%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 12 (4.38%) Analyst
13 12 (4.38%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 11 (4.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.90%) .NET
2 35 (12.77%) Node.js
3 34 (12.41%) HTML
4 32 (11.68%) AngularJS
5 30 (10.95%) .NET Core
5 30 (10.95%) RESTful
6 28 (10.22%) Vue
7 26 (9.49%) ASP.NET
8 24 (8.76%) ASP.NET MVC
8 24 (8.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 21 (7.66%) React
10 19 (6.93%) CSS
11 17 (6.20%) .NET Framework
11 17 (6.20%) Entity Framework
12 12 (4.38%) Unreal Engine
13 11 (4.01%) jQuery
13 11 (4.01%) Laravel
13 11 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 10 (3.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.33%) Client/Server
2 34 (12.41%) Online Games
3 13 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.38%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.01%) Social Media
6 10 (3.65%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.55%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.82%) Life Science
10 4 (1.46%) Animation
10 4 (1.46%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (1.46%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.46%) IoT
10 4 (1.46%) Web3
11 3 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.73%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.73%) iPhone
12 2 (0.73%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.30%) Windows
2 8 (2.92%) Android
2 8 (2.92%) Linux
2 8 (2.92%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.19%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.09%) Unix
5 3 (1.09%) VMS
6 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (22.63%) Agile
2 47 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (16.79%) Full Stack Development
4 45 (16.42%) Computer Science
5 35 (12.77%) Customer Service
5 35 (12.77%) MVC
6 30 (10.95%) Mentoring
6 30 (10.95%) User Experience
7 29 (10.58%) Coaching
8 25 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (8.39%) Project Management
9 23 (8.39%) Software Engineering
10 22 (8.03%) Scrum
11 21 (7.66%) DevOps
12 20 (7.30%) Customer Experience
12 20 (7.30%) Mathematics
13 17 (6.20%) Multithreading
14 16 (5.84%) Value Proposition
15 15 (5.47%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (5.47%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 78 (28.47%) C#
2 76 (27.74%) JavaScript
3 55 (20.07%) SQL
4 30 (10.95%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.39%) Python
6 22 (8.03%) PHP
7 12 (4.38%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.65%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.46%) C++
10 2 (0.73%) Go
10 2 (0.73%) Java
10 2 (0.73%) VB
10 2 (0.73%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.36%) Bash
11 1 (0.36%) C
11 1 (0.36%) RPG
11 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (23.72%) Degree
2 25 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (6.20%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.65%) CCNA
4 10 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.92%) CCNA CyberOps
6 8 (2.92%) CCNP
7 5 (1.82%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.82%) MCP
7 5 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (1.82%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.09%) OSCP
8 3 (1.09%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.73%) CEH
9 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) MCSE
9 2 (0.73%) SSCP
10 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.55%) QA
3 6 (2.19%) GDPR
4 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.09%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (8.39%) Docker
2 8 (2.92%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.82%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (7.66%) Terraform
2 6 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.09%) Ansible
4 3 (1.09%) SCCM
4 3 (1.09%) WSUS
5 2 (0.73%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 30 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.65%) Cisco
3 5 (1.82%) Aruba
3 5 (1.82%) Dell
3 5 (1.82%) Freshdesk
3 5 (1.82%) SonicWALL
3 5 (1.82%) Veeam
4 3 (1.09%) Adobe
4 3 (1.09%) Apple
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle
4 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.73%) Citrix
5 2 (0.73%) Instagram
5 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.73%) SYSPRO
5 2 (0.73%) Twitter
5 2 (0.73%) VMware
6 1 (0.36%) Cadence
6 1 (0.36%) Google
6 1 (0.36%) YouTube