Games Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Gaming
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 84 97
Rank change year-on-year -54 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Games 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.085% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.16% 0.48% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £551 - £415
25th Percentile £553 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £578 - £600
90th Percentile £584 - £645
England median daily rate £575 £316 £419
% change year-on-year +81.96% -24.58% -16.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -11.76%

All General Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,272 620 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.31% 62.88% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 372 544
10th Percentile £283 £263 £193
25th Percentile £400 £360 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -1.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £565
90th Percentile £669 £642 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 24 79
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £12.07
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £20.33 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.23% +38.97% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £23.79 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £39.39 £22.15
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £27.51
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.52% -21.41%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Games job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Games
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Games

Games
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Games

Games
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Yorkshire -30 1 £575 - 12
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
Games
England

Games
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Brown Bag Session
2 1 (50.00%) Canary Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Design for Test
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) SBOM
2 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker