Games Jobs in the Thames Valley

Gaming
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 105 226
Rank change year-on-year -77 +121 -64
Permanent jobs citing Games 61 165 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.91% 2.79% 0.81%
As % of the General category 1.72% 4.30% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 32 23 28
10th Percentile £30,000 £53,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,938 £57,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £67,500 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +65.64% -29.13%
75th Percentile £50,000 £73,750 £55,625
90th Percentile £62,500 £92,500 £89,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +33.33%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,553 3,834 4,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.87% 64.84% 58.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,198 1,701 2,090
10th Percentile £26,425 £27,954 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £82,500
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Games in the Thames Valley

Games
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Games in the Thames Valley

Games
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the Thames Valley

Games
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Oxfordshire +31 39 £47,500 -32.14% 24
Buckinghamshire -39 14 £40,000 -31.91% 6
Berkshire -67 8 £25,750 -61.85% 16
Games
South East

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Maya
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (6.56%) MotionBuilder
2 2 (3.28%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) Azure
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.20%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.56%) Mavenlink
4 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.92%) Taleo
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) 4G
2 2 (3.28%) xDSL
3 1 (1.64%) Network Security
3 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Power BI
2 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) JIRA
2 4 (6.56%) Git
3 3 (4.92%) gulp
3 3 (4.92%) PostCSS
3 3 (4.92%) rollup.js
3 3 (4.92%) Vite
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Retail
3 5 (8.20%) Legal
4 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.92%) Law
5 3 (4.92%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Dutch Language
6 2 (3.28%) Finance
6 2 (3.28%) French Language
6 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Swedish Language
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.64%) Automotive
7 1 (1.64%) Digital Economy
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Senior
3 7 (11.48%) Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Data Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Developer
4 4 (6.56%) Business Systems Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Product Specialist
4 4 (6.56%) Salesforce Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) 3D Developer
5 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) C# Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (4.92%) IT Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) IT Support
5 3 (4.92%) QA Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Senior Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Unreal Engine
2 4 (6.56%) CSS
2 4 (6.56%) HTML
3 3 (4.92%) .NET
3 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.92%) DirectX
3 3 (4.92%) HTML5
3 3 (4.92%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (4.92%) OpenGL
3 3 (4.92%) Pixi.js
3 3 (4.92%) Sass
3 3 (4.92%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (4.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (4.92%) WebGL
4 1 (1.64%) Flask
4 1 (1.64%) Flutter
4 1 (1.64%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.64%) Symfony
4 1 (1.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.92%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (4.92%) Animation
3 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.28%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
3 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.67%) Customer Service
2 9 (14.75%) Mathematics
3 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
5 6 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (9.84%) Physics
6 5 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (8.20%) Customer Experience
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (8.20%) IT Strategy
6 5 (8.20%) Time Management
7 4 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (6.56%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (6.56%) Data Management
7 4 (6.56%) Data Migration
7 4 (6.56%) Game Development
7 4 (6.56%) Migration
7 4 (6.56%) Use Case
7 4 (6.56%) Validation
7 4 (6.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.84%) SQL
2 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
2 5 (8.20%) Python
3 3 (4.92%) C#
3 3 (4.92%) T-SQL
3 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.28%) C
4 2 (3.28%) C++
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) MCP
3 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
1 4 (6.56%) QA
1 4 (6.56%) SLA
2 1 (1.64%) COSHH
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 14001
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.64%) SCCM
2 1 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) Datto
2 5 (8.20%) Sophos
2 5 (8.20%) WatchGuard
3 4 (6.56%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.56%) Autodesk
3 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.64%) Apple
4 1 (1.64%) Citrix