Games Contracts in Edinburgh

Gaming
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 59 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Games 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% - 0.15%
As % of the General category 1.66% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £550 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £575
75th Percentile £613 - £588
90th Percentile £650 - -
Scotland median daily rate £600 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 482 610 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 77.12% 74.85% 72.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 348 688
10th Percentile £199 £183 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 7
10th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +64.63% -46.85%
75th Percentile £29.86 £60.75 £31.34
90th Percentile £52.90 £67.23 £51.60
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Edinburgh

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Games in Edinburgh

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Games in Edinburgh

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Games in Edinburgh

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) API Development
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) ForgeRock
1 2 (25.00%) Ping Identity