iGaming Contract Job Trends

iGaming
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iGaming in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iGaming over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 - 648
Rank change year-on-year - - +194
Contract jobs citing iGaming 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% - 0.004%
As % of the General category 0.010% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £288
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.73%
75th Percentile £338 - £294
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All General Skills
UK

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,617 22,080 29,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.48% 58.10% 59.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,765 13,200 19,955
10th Percentile £275 £283 £303
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 1,073 1,083
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.73 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.25 £16.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +28.58% +12.24%
75th Percentile £47.31 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £71.08 £70.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £35.03 £27.20
% change year-on-year -40.05% +28.79% +29.52%

iGaming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing iGaming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iGaming in the UK

iGaming
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing iGaming.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing iGaming

iGaming
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iGaming within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Work from Home - 2 £325 - 40
London - 1 - - 42
England - 1 - - 66

iGaming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) web3js
1 1 (50.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (50.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes