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 advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 90 138
Rank change year-on-year -6 +48 -43
Contract jobs citing Games 14 33 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.73% 1.60% 0.43%
As % of the General category 1.19% 2.65% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 5
10th Percentile - £200 £301
25th Percentile £363 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £601 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.55% +20.10% +17.65%
75th Percentile £419 £738 £525
90th Percentile £588 £990 -
England median daily rate £419 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -14.05% -2.50% +18.34%

All General Skills
East of England

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,176 1,243 1,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.73% 60.25% 59.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 683 778
10th Percentile £240 £200 £161
25th Percentile £350 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £626 £540
90th Percentile £650 £733 £636
England median daily rate £538 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.67% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 265 329
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £20.56 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.41% +41.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £21.43
% change year-on-year -11.76% +58.69% -4.78%

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 26 April 2024.

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
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 26 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -9 13 £375 -47.37% 16
Cambridgeshire -4 1 £300 +33.33% 15
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) VTune
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Marketing
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Lead
2 7 (50.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) C Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) C/C++ Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) C++ Games Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) C++ Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Games Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Graphics Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) Visualforce
2 1 (7.14%) DirectX
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OpenGL
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) React Native
2 1 (7.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (7.14%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Ray Tracing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (42.86%) Test Management
2 6 (42.86%) Test Planning
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) CRM
4 2 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Product Backlog
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Apex Code
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) GLSL
3 1 (7.14%) HLSL
3 1 (7.14%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) PMP
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) SAP