iGaming Contract Job Trends in the North of England

iGaming
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iGaming in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iGaming over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing iGaming 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.013% - -
As % of the General category 0.026% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 - -

All General Skills
North of England

iGaming 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,909 2,473 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 51.73% 61.43% 54.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,326 1,567 1,309
10th Percentile £283 £250 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £676
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 168 160
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.80 £12.15
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.13 £15.68
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.14 £22.69
Median % change year-on-year +58.08% -2.41% +6.46%
75th Percentile £45.34 £47.12 £42.50
90th Percentile £75.50 £74.13 £52.65
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

iGaming
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing iGaming relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

iGaming job vacancy trend in the North of England

iGaming
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing iGaming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing iGaming

iGaming
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iGaming within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 August 2026. 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
North West - 1 £450 - 4
iGaming
England

iGaming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java