Games Contracts in Oldham

Gaming
Manchester > Oldham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in Oldham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Games 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oldham 28.57% - -
As % of the General category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Manchester median daily rate £465 £425 £415
% change year-on-year +9.41% +2.41% +6.41%

All General Skills
Oldham

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 Oldham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oldham 85.71% 33.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £370
25th Percentile - £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £400
75th Percentile - £425 £525
90th Percentile - - £533
Manchester median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Oldham

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Oldham

Games
Daily Rate Trend in Oldham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Games

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oldham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform