Mobile Game
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Games in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Games over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 928 1176
Rank change year-on-year +43 +248 -372
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Games 11 42 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.040% 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.032% 0.094% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 18
10th Percentile - £43,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £112,500 £85,000 £83,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% +73.08%

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile Games is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Mobile Games
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Games over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Games within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +84 11 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Work from Home +70 8 £50,000 -16.67% 12
London +113 7 £50,000 - 9
UK excluding London +7 4 £75,000 +7.14% 6
Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 1

Mobile Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (36.36%) Adobe After Effects
1 4 (36.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (36.36%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Firebase
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Looker
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Couchbase
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (100.00%) Games
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Advertising
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Animator
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Games Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Head of Mobile
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Games Programmer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Game Programmer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Programmer
4 1 (9.09%) Programmer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (36.36%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Animation
1 4 (36.36%) Online Gambling
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
1 4 (36.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) User Experience
2 5 (45.45%) Game Development
2 5 (45.45%) Mathematics
2 5 (45.45%) Physics
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Storyboarding
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (27.27%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Chemistry
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Economics
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Statistics
5 2 (18.18%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) C
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) R
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Apple
2 1 (9.09%) Google