Games Contracts in the East of England

Gaming
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 92
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing Games 19 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.49% 0.69% 1.04%
As % of the General category 2.57% 1.21% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 18
10th Percentile £134 £351 £482
25th Percentile £245 £363 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 £375 £688
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% -45.45% +37.50%
75th Percentile £371 £425 £927
90th Percentile £381 £634 £1,050
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £70.38 - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -

All General Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 739 910 1,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 57.96% 57.49% 57.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 303 594
10th Percentile £187 £250 £208
25th Percentile £340 £335 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £617
90th Percentile £680 £650 £738
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.20% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 351 259
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £41.48 £40.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% +125.73% -10.55%
75th Percentile £65.19 £50.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £81.93 £64.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Games in the East of England

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Games in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Games in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Games in the East of England

Games
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Bedfordshire - 16 £60 - 5
Hertfordshire +5 2 £344 -8.33% 18
Cambridgeshire +2 1 £360 -0.69% 22
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (42.11%) IBM Domino
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (42.11%) Ethernet
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
General
1 8 (42.11%) Electronics
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) FPGA Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Web Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Framer.js
1 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Algorithms
1 8 (42.11%) FPGA
1 8 (42.11%) PCIe
1 8 (42.11%) Verilog
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Android
1 8 (42.11%) Mac OS
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Computer Science
1 8 (42.11%) Cryptography
1 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
1 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
1 8 (42.11%) Physics
1 8 (42.11%) UVM
2 6 (31.58%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (5.26%) Agile
3 1 (5.26%) Atomic Design
3 1 (5.26%) Defect Management
3 1 (5.26%) Integration Testing
3 1 (5.26%) Journey Map
3 1 (5.26%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (5.26%) Test Scripting
3 1 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.26%) User Experience
3 1 (5.26%) UX Design
3 1 (5.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) MATLAB
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
1 8 (42.11%) SystemVerilog
1 8 (42.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Degree
1 8 (42.11%) HNC
1 8 (42.11%) HND
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) ISEB
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) DO-254
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (42.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (42.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Actel
1 8 (42.11%) Altera
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco
1 8 (42.11%) Intel
1 8 (42.11%) Meraki
1 8 (42.11%) Microsemi
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
1 8 (42.11%) Splunk
1 8 (42.11%) Xilinx