Games Jobs in Bristol

Gaming
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 139 81
Rank change year-on-year +59 -58 +8
Permanent jobs citing Games 18 22 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.52% 0.67% 3.54%
As % of the General category 2.36% 1.38% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 5
10th Percentile £56,250 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £42,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +22.22% -35.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £71,000
South West median annual salary £25,087 £48,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -48.54% -11.36% -21.43%

All General Skills
Bristol

Games falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 762 1,594 1,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.36% 48.60% 67.37%
Number of salaries quoted 486 1,147 979
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,698 £41,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,687 £55,000 £57,078
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -3.64% +8.72%
75th Percentile £72,950 £71,725 £74,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £90,329 £86,250
South West median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +2.79%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Bristol

Games
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in Bristol.

Salary trend for Games in Bristol

Games
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in Bristol

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Lead
2 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Senior
3 7 (38.89%) PHP Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Senior Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Senior PHP Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Technical Leader
5 3 (16.67%) Development Team Leader
5 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) CSS
1 10 (55.56%) HTML
1 10 (55.56%) LAMP
1 10 (55.56%) Laravel
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (5.56%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) E-Commerce
2 10 (55.56%) MVC
2 10 (55.56%) OOP
2 10 (55.56%) Web Development
3 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Line Management
5 3 (16.67%) SOLID
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.56%) Project Management
7 1 (5.56%) Prototyping
7 1 (5.56%) Rapid Prototyping
7 1 (5.56%) Storytelling
7 1 (5.56%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) PHP
2 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) HLSL
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Twitter
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks