Games Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Gaming
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 55 62
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Games 1 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.12% 0.66% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.25% 1.15% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £563 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.95%
75th Percentile £588 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +6.98%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 general skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 395 260 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 45.56% 57.52% 51.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 170 245
10th Percentile £263 £253 £260
25th Percentile £400 £341 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £567 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 35
10th Percentile - £31.59 £11.91
25th Percentile - £31.76 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +227.21% -35.31%
75th Percentile £18.23 £96.64 £15.19
90th Percentile - £97.79 £15.23
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.84 £24.82 £13.50
% change year-on-year -32.17% +83.85% -21.69%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Games job vacancy trend in Leeds

Games
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Games.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Games

Games
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Games.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Games

Games
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker