Games Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Gaming
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 69 108
Rank change year-on-year +12 +39 -61
Permanent jobs citing Games 42 52 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.71% 3.42% 2.30%
As % of the General category 4.79% 5.05% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 42 12 13
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £26,900
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +108.33% -50.00%
75th Percentile £80,001 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 - -
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £81,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -26.15% +20.37% +22.73%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 876 1,030 1,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 56.63% 67.76% 62.91%
Number of salaries quoted 665 340 504
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £79,625
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -5.00%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Cambridgeshire

Games
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Games in Cambridgeshire

Games
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in Cambridgeshire

Games
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +6 42 £65,000 +4.00% 13
Games
East of England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Blender
1 7 (16.67%) Maya
2 4 (9.52%) ZBrush
3 3 (7.14%) Houdini
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (2.38%) Azure
3 1 (2.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) Internet
1 11 (26.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
General
1 11 (26.19%) Electronics
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Agriculture
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Senior
2 11 (26.19%) Electronics Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Hardware Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Senior Electronics Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Lead
4 7 (16.67%) Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning Researcher
4 7 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Art Director
5 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Artist
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 7 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 6 (14.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 3 (7.14%) CryEngine
3 3 (7.14%) DirectX
3 3 (7.14%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (7.14%) Vulkan
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.38%) TypeORM
4 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Algorithms
1 11 (26.19%) IoT
2 7 (16.67%) Animation
2 7 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 7 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (11.90%) Client/Server
4 4 (9.52%) Motion Graphics
5 3 (7.14%) Ray Tracing
5 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 7 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (16.67%) Cryptography
4 7 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (16.67%) Deep Learning
4 7 (16.67%) Differential Privacy
4 7 (16.67%) Game Theory
4 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 7 (16.67%) Multi-Agent System
4 7 (16.67%) Open Source
4 7 (16.67%) Open Source Development
4 7 (16.67%) Probability Theory
4 7 (16.67%) Statistics
4 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
5 4 (9.52%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (9.52%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) C#
3 7 (16.67%) RPG
4 5 (11.90%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) C++
5 1 (2.38%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft