Games Jobs with Work from Home Options

Gaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 211 197 91
Rank change year-on-year -14 -106 +40
Permanent jobs citing Games 522 730 2,658
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.55% 1.76% 3.88%
As % of the General category 2.52% 2.67% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 362 493 1,062
10th Percentile £30,300 £37,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 -
UK median annual salary £54,900 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,723 27,370 43,126
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.37% 65.99% 63.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,077 18,217 24,304
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Games
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Games trend for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Games.

Games salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Games over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Games salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 53 (10.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.15%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2000
5 4 (0.77%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.77%) Blender
3 4 (0.77%) Simulink
3 4 (0.77%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.57%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.38%) Maya
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.38%) ZBrush
6 1 (0.19%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (6.32%) Endur
2 3 (0.57%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.38%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 92 (17.62%) AWS
2 90 (17.24%) Azure
3 29 (5.56%) SaaS
4 27 (5.17%) Serverless
5 26 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (4.02%) GitHub
8 19 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.26%) dbt
10 16 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (2.49%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (1.72%) Asana
13 8 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.53%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 7 (1.34%) GCP
15 6 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.15%) Snowflake
16 5 (0.96%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.94%) Wireless
2 21 (4.02%) Firewall
3 16 (3.07%) Broadband
4 14 (2.68%) DNS
5 12 (2.30%) Network Security
6 11 (2.11%) Internet
6 11 (2.11%) NAS
7 9 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.77%) LAN
9 3 (0.57%) DHCP
9 3 (0.57%) VPN
10 2 (0.38%) HTTP
10 2 (0.38%) WAN
11 1 (0.19%) SMS
11 1 (0.19%) SSH
11 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (19.54%) SQL Server
2 40 (7.66%) MySQL
3 39 (7.47%) Relational Database
4 37 (7.09%) RDBMS
5 27 (5.17%) Redis
6 25 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.87%) NoSQL
10 13 (2.49%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.72%) Big Data
11 9 (1.72%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.53%) Couchbase
12 8 (1.53%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.34%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.96%) Power BI
15 5 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (3.26%) Git
2 16 (3.07%) TeamCity
3 14 (2.68%) JIRA
4 6 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.77%) Storybook
5 4 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.57%) GitLab
6 3 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.57%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.19%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.19%) XCTest
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 145 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 87 (16.67%) Finance
3 68 (13.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 62 (11.88%) Marketing
5 42 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.41%) Retail
7 20 (3.83%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.26%) Aerospace
8 17 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.07%) Billing
10 15 (2.87%) Electronics
11 12 (2.30%) Advertising
12 11 (2.11%) Law
13 7 (1.34%) Legal
14 5 (0.96%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.77%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.38%) Military
17 2 (0.38%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 138 (26.44%) Developer
2 120 (22.99%) Senior
3 69 (13.22%) .NET Developer
4 57 (10.92%) Project Manager
5 39 (7.47%) Lead
5 39 (7.47%) Senior Manager
6 36 (6.90%) C# Developer
7 34 (6.51%) Games Developer
7 34 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 32 (6.13%) Analyst
9 30 (5.75%) C# .NET Developer
10 28 (5.36%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.79%) Full Stack Developer
12 24 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (4.41%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (3.64%) Architect
16 18 (3.45%) Software Manager
17 17 (3.26%) Software Architect
18 16 (3.07%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (17.82%) .NET
2 78 (14.94%) .NET Core
3 77 (14.75%) HTML
4 67 (12.84%) ASP.NET
4 67 (12.84%) ASP.NET MVC
5 47 (9.00%) AngularJS
6 45 (8.62%) Node.js
6 45 (8.62%) React
7 44 (8.43%) HTML5
8 42 (8.05%) CSS
9 40 (7.66%) Entity Framework
10 33 (6.32%) RESTful
11 31 (5.94%) ASP.NET Web API
12 28 (5.36%) .NET Framework
13 27 (5.17%) Vue
14 26 (4.98%) Blazor
15 23 (4.41%) CSS3
16 22 (4.21%) Kafka
17 20 (3.83%) LINQ
18 14 (2.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.73%) Client/Server
2 36 (6.90%) Online Games
3 33 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 33 (6.32%) Swaptions
4 25 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.87%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.11%) IoT
8 11 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (1.92%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.53%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.53%) Virtual Reality
11 7 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.34%) Mobile Games
12 6 (1.15%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.15%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.58%) Windows
2 19 (3.64%) Linux
3 17 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.68%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.49%) Unix
6 12 (2.30%) VMS
7 9 (1.72%) Android
8 7 (1.34%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.15%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (29.89%) Agile
2 91 (17.43%) Full Stack Development
3 83 (15.90%) Project Management
4 79 (15.13%) Mentoring
5 74 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (13.98%) MVC
7 67 (12.84%) Decision-Making
8 57 (10.92%) Analytics
9 55 (10.54%) Software Engineering
10 48 (9.20%) Computer Science
10 48 (9.20%) Data Modelling
10 48 (9.20%) SDLC
11 47 (9.00%) Creative Thinking
12 46 (8.81%) Microservices
12 46 (8.81%) Scrum
13 45 (8.62%) Roadmaps
14 39 (7.47%) TDD
15 34 (6.51%) BDD
16 33 (6.32%) Business Transformation
16 33 (6.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 121 (23.18%) JavaScript
2 109 (20.88%) C#
3 93 (17.82%) SQL
4 77 (14.75%) Python
5 49 (9.39%) Java
6 46 (8.81%) TypeScript
7 33 (6.32%) VB
8 21 (4.02%) PHP
9 13 (2.49%) Go
10 12 (2.30%) Bash
10 12 (2.30%) C++
11 11 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.92%) C
13 7 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.77%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.38%) Rust
15 2 (0.38%) Scala
16 1 (0.19%) Perl
16 1 (0.19%) R
16 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 130 (24.90%) Degree
2 78 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.94%) DBS Check
5 17 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (0.96%) PhD
8 5 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.96%) PMP
9 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CCNA
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CSPO
11 2 (0.38%) MBA
12 1 (0.19%) ISEB
12 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.56%) QA
2 16 (3.07%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.11%) SOC 2
4 9 (1.72%) GDPR
5 6 (1.15%) SLA
6 3 (0.57%) NIST
7 2 (0.38%) ITGC
7 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (5.36%) Docker
2 23 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (5.56%) Terraform
2 25 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.30%) SCCM
4 12 (2.30%) WSUS
5 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.38%) Argo
6 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 101 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.70%) Oracle
3 33 (6.32%) OpenLink
3 33 (6.32%) Sybase
3 33 (6.32%) TIBCO
4 32 (6.13%) Apple
5 26 (4.98%) Google
6 18 (3.45%) IFS
7 16 (3.07%) Workday
8 15 (2.87%) Adobe
9 11 (2.11%) Databricks
9 11 (2.11%) VMware
10 9 (1.72%) YouTube
11 8 (1.53%) Cisco
12 6 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.15%) Draytek
13 4 (0.77%) Instagram
13 4 (0.77%) Logitech
13 4 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.77%) Salesforce