Mobile Games Contracts in the UK excluding London

Mobile Game
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Games in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Games over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 - 454
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Mobile Games 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% - 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £364 £300 £413
% change year-on-year +21.33% -27.27% -34.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Mobile Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,236 6,091 7,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.16% 29.43% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,645 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 724 436
10th Percentile £16.87 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.99 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

Mobile Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Mobile Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Games in the UK excluding London

Mobile Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Games in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Games in the UK excluding London

Mobile Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Games in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Games in the UK excluding London

Mobile Games
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Games within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Midlands - 6 - - 4
West Midlands - 6 - - 4
Mobile Games
UK

Mobile Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

General
1 6 (100.00%) Games
2 4 (66.67%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Designer
1 6 (100.00%) Games Designer
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Designer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Designer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Games Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (66.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python