Online Games Contracts in England

Online Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Online Games over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 649 771
Rank change year-on-year +108 +122 -176
Contract jobs citing Online Games 2 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.005% 0.018% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.017% 0.052% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £397 £245 -
25th Percentile £414 £316 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £338 £506
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% -33.33% -7.95%
75th Percentile £471 £587 £533
90th Percentile £489 £808 £558
UK median daily rate £443 £338 £506
% change year-on-year +31.11% -33.33% -7.95%

All Generic Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,496 17,234 24,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.89% 33.64% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,516 11,950 17,291
10th Percentile £263 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £670
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 613 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.78
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -15.15% +2.91%
75th Percentile £59.06 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.14
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +25.64% -16.72% +5.88%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in England

Online Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Online Games in England

Online Games
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Online Games in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Online Games in England

Online Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Online Games in England

Online Games
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +102 1 £385 -6.67% 15
North West - 1 £500 - 3
North of England - 1 £500 - 8
Online Games
UK

Online Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Games Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (50.00%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility