Games Jobs in Cardiff

Gaming
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 65 81
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 -8
Permanent jobs citing Games 25 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.81% 0.52% 0.94%
As % of the General category 6.63% 0.82% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 25 3 8
10th Percentile - £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £35,625 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £62,500 - £52,125
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -20.00%

All General Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 377 364 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 57.47% 62.76% 61.25%
Number of salaries quoted 337 267 384
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,138 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,988 £62,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,129 £75,000
South Wales median annual salary £43,500 £44,666 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -10.67% +17.65%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Cardiff

Games
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Games in Cardiff

Games
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Cardiff over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in Cardiff

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 20 (80.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
1 11 (44.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (44.00%) Selenium
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (32.00%) .NET Developer
3 8 (32.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 8 (32.00%) C# Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Games Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Senior
4 5 (20.00%) Full Stack Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (76.00%) AngularJS
2 11 (44.00%) React
2 11 (44.00%) REST
2 11 (44.00%) Spring
2 11 (44.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (32.00%) .NET
3 8 (32.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 8 (32.00%) RESTful
4 5 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (20.00%) HTML
4 5 (20.00%) HTML5
4 5 (20.00%) Laravel
4 5 (20.00%) LINQ
4 5 (20.00%) Symfony
4 5 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Full Stack Development
2 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
2 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
2 11 (44.00%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (44.00%) Fintech
2 11 (44.00%) Integration Testing
2 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (44.00%) Roadmaps
2 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (20.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 5 (20.00%) Microservices
4 5 (20.00%) MVC
5 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (4.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (44.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (32.00%) C#
4 5 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft