Games Contracts in London

Gaming
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 320 383
Rank change year-on-year +2 +63 -47
Contract jobs citing Games 37 73 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the General category 0.42% 0.66% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 44 85
10th Percentile £232 £275 £243
25th Percentile £308 £323 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% -7.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £444 £600 £610
90th Percentile £498 £726 £668
England median daily rate £400 £408 £444
% change year-on-year -1.96% -8.06% -11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile - £38.05 £50.38
25th Percentile £32.50 £40.75 £56.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -29.17% +37.14%
75th Percentile £46.25 £44.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £46.95 £70.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £41.21 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.33% -31.32% +37.14%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,832 10,983 16,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.00% 62.36% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,891 7,822 11,723
10th Percentile £331 £336 £374
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £725
90th Percentile £813 £825 £825
England median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 233 194
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £24.66 £18.79 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -7.47% -8.83%
75th Percentile £51.18 £48.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £64.50 £67.60 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.45 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.55% +9.65% +25.23%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in London

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Games in London

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Games in London

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Games in London

Games
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Games in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Games in London

Games
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the London region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Central London -6 4 - - 185
South London - 4 - - 14
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Maya
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.70%) SPSS
2 1 (2.70%) Stata
2 1 (2.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Asana
5 1 (2.70%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.70%) Canva
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) LAN
1 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
1 5 (13.51%) WAN
1 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
1 3 (8.11%) Tableau
2 1 (2.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Marketing
4 4 (10.81%) Publishing
5 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Finance
6 2 (5.41%) French Language
6 2 (5.41%) German Language
6 2 (5.41%) Italian Language
6 2 (5.41%) Japanese Language
6 2 (5.41%) Spanish Language
7 1 (2.70%) Advertising
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Senior
2 4 (10.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Animator
3 3 (8.11%) Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Games Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 2 (5.41%) 3D Artist
4 2 (5.41%) Content Editor
4 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Video Editor
5 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Technical Producer
5 1 (2.70%) Technical Producer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) Unreal Engine
2 5 (13.51%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 3 (8.11%) Godot
4 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.70%) Bazel
4 1 (2.70%) CSS
4 1 (2.70%) Django
4 1 (2.70%) HTML
4 1 (2.70%) MapLibre
4 1 (2.70%) Nuxt
4 1 (2.70%) PySpark
4 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Animation
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.70%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
4 1 (2.70%) Social Media
4 1 (2.70%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.70%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Android
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.62%) Game Development
3 7 (18.92%) Agile
3 7 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (16.22%) Process Improvement
5 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.51%) User Experience
6 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.11%) Mathematics
7 3 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.11%) Visualisation
8 2 (5.41%) A/B Testing
8 2 (5.41%) Analytics
8 2 (5.41%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (5.41%) Data Science
8 2 (5.41%) Experimental Design
8 2 (5.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) C++
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) PHP
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) R
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) HP
3 1 (2.70%) Perforce
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce