Online Games Contract Job Trends in Central London

Online Gaming
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Online Games over the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Online Games 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.051% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
London median daily rate £600 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Online Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 767 756 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.99% 31.15% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 483 618
10th Percentile £350 £363 £312
25th Percentile £434 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -1.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile £19.51 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.15 £26.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +3.85% -49.02%
75th Percentile £41.89 £59.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £67.89 £79.40 £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year -30.62% +20.83% -1.64%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Online Games relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Online Games job vacancy trend in Central London

Online Games
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Online Games.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Online Games

Online Games
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Online Games.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Online Games

Online Games
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
City of London - 1 £600 -
Online Games
London

Online Games
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) High-Frequency Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk