Mobile Games Contracts

Mobile Game
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Games in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Games over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 572 699
Rank change year-on-year +56 +127 +142
Contract jobs citing Mobile Games 7 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.016% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.070% 0.054% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £263 -
25th Percentile £357 £272 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% -29.41% -32.00%
75th Percentile £371 £431 £438
90th Percentile - £556 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,004 12,896 18,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.98% 30.27% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,344 8,305 13,015
10th Percentile £300 £267 £313
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 899 629
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.53 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.58% +36.36% +3.53%

Mobile Games
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +55 7 £364 +21.33% 38
Midlands - 6 - - 5
West Midlands - 6 - - 5
UK excluding London - 6 - - 18
London +39 1 £364 +21.33% 23
Work from Home +37 1 £364 +26.61% 121

Mobile Games
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 1 (14.29%) Canva
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 7 (100.00%) Games
2 4 (57.14%) Polish Language
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Designer
1 6 (85.71%) Games Designer
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
1 6 (85.71%) Technical Designer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Designer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Games Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (57.14%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) User Experience
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Acquisition
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Segmentation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Gamification
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks