Games Contracts in Berkshire

Gaming
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 123 114
Rank change year-on-year +32 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Games 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.050% 0.055%
As % of the General category 0.27% 0.089% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.71%
South East median daily rate - - £438
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 £10.24 -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £10.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +205.83% - -
75th Percentile £32.75 £10.36 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £31.50 £10.30 -
% change year-on-year +205.83% - -

All General Skills
Berkshire

Games falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 739 1,127 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 63.00% 56.80% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 551 708
10th Percentile £300 £205 £325
25th Percentile £413 £325 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
75th Percentile £632 £589 £631
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 87 27
10th Percentile £19.91 £22.75 £19.10
25th Percentile £30.25 £42.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%
75th Percentile £65.62 £69.47 £68.11
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Berkshire

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Games in Berkshire

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Games in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Games in Berkshire

Games
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
Games
South East

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Experimental Design
1 1 (50.00%) Game Development
1 1 (50.00%) Monetization
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks