Games Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Gaming
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 59 71
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Games 1 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.091% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the General category 0.19% 0.93% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £563 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.98%
75th Percentile £588 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £563 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +6.98%

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 general skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 526 322 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 47.64% 60.30% 54.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 201 318
10th Percentile £250 £263 £255
25th Percentile £396 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +2.61% -1.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 45
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.14 £12.15
Median hourly rate £16.84 £24.82 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +83.85% -21.69%
75th Percentile £21.83 £36.22 £15.19
90th Percentile £44.03 £91.13 £17.06
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £20.33 £14.63
% change year-on-year +12.23% +38.97% -17.47%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Games relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Games job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Games
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Games.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Games

Games
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Games.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Games

Games
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Leeds -24 1 £575 - 11
Games
Yorkshire

Games
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker