Games Jobs in Central London

Gaming
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 137 165
Rank change year-on-year +62 +28 +21
Permanent jobs citing Games 95 60 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.74% 1.59% 1.55%
As % of the General category 5.22% 2.55% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 46 51 66
10th Percentile £52,500 £36,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £68,750 £106,250
London median annual salary £62,500 £66,250 £68,500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.28% -2.14%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,820 2,352 3,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 71.65% 62.17% 65.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 1,821 2,807
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,397 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Central London

Games
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Games in Central London

Games
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in Central London

Games
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
City of London +42 60 £62,500 +25.00% 14
Camden - 32 - -
City of Westminster +7 27 £62,500 +20.48% 1
Southwark -5 3 £65,000 +8.33%
Games
London

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 22 (23.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.11%) AWS
1 21 (22.11%) Azure
2 15 (15.79%) GCP
3 12 (12.63%) GitHub
3 12 (12.63%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (6.32%) SaaS
5 5 (5.26%) Anthos
5 5 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.05%) IaaS
8 1 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.16%) HTTP
2 2 (2.11%) DNS
2 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.47%) MySQL
3 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.32%) Tableau
6 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (20.00%) Git
2 12 (12.63%) Gradle
3 11 (11.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.37%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.26%) Maven
6 3 (3.16%) CircleCI
General
1 49 (51.58%) Social Skills
2 41 (43.16%) Finance
3 35 (36.84%) Retail
4 23 (24.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (23.16%) Advertising
6 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (14.74%) Telecoms
8 12 (12.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.16%) Legal
10 2 (2.11%) Billing
10 2 (2.11%) iGaming
10 2 (2.11%) Law
10 2 (2.11%) Marketing
10 2 (2.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (57.89%) Senior
2 25 (26.32%) Senior Software Engineer
2 25 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 18 (18.95%) Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Lead
4 10 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Analyst
6 8 (8.42%) Lead Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Android Developer
7 7 (7.37%) iOS Android Developer
7 7 (7.37%) iOS Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Lead Android Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Lead iOS Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Qualitative Analyst
7 7 (7.37%) Quantitative Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Process Improvement Manager
8 6 (6.32%) Process Manager
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.79%) Kafka
2 10 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (7.37%) React
3 7 (7.37%) RESTful
3 7 (7.37%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (5.26%) OpenAPI
4 5 (5.26%) Spring
5 4 (4.21%) Django
5 4 (4.21%) Laravel
6 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.16%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (3.16%) Node.js
7 1 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.05%) Express.js
7 1 (1.05%) HTML
7 1 (1.05%) HTML5
7 1 (1.05%) JSON
7 1 (1.05%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (30.53%) Mobile Games
2 22 (23.16%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (17.89%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (14.74%) Mobile App
5 12 (12.63%) Blockchain
5 12 (12.63%) Management Information System
5 12 (12.63%) Robotics
6 10 (10.53%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.21%) CMDB
8 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.16%) Cyberattack
8 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.11%) IoT
9 2 (2.11%) Online Games
9 2 (2.11%) Sports Betting
10 1 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Android
1 8 (8.42%) Apple iOS
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.58%) Agile
2 46 (48.42%) Software Engineering
3 39 (41.05%) Computer Science
4 29 (30.53%) Machine Learning
5 28 (29.47%) Analytics
6 27 (28.42%) B2B
7 25 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (24.21%) Data Analytics
9 22 (23.16%) Mentoring
9 22 (23.16%) Performance Metrics
9 22 (23.16%) Programmatic Advertising
10 20 (21.05%) Coaching
11 18 (18.95%) DevOps
12 17 (17.89%) Migration
13 16 (16.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 16 (16.84%) CI/CD
14 15 (15.79%) Microservices
15 13 (13.68%) Change Management
15 13 (13.68%) Creative Thinking
15 13 (13.68%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.32%) Python
2 29 (30.53%) SQL
3 22 (23.16%) Scala
4 16 (16.84%) Java
5 8 (8.42%) Kotlin
6 7 (7.37%) Objective-C
6 7 (7.37%) Swift
7 5 (5.26%) PHP
8 4 (4.21%) C#
9 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.16%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) Go
11 1 (1.05%) Bash
11 1 (1.05%) C
Qualifications
1 50 (52.63%) Degree
2 17 (17.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (12.63%) CISA
3 12 (12.63%) ISACA
4 6 (6.32%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.16%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.11%) ACCA
7 2 (2.11%) CIMA
8 1 (1.05%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.63%) ITGC
1 12 (12.63%) QA
2 4 (4.21%) SLA
3 3 (3.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.42%) Argo
2 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.21%) Puppet
4 4 (4.21%) SCCM
4 4 (4.21%) Terraform
5 3 (3.16%) Ansible
5 3 (3.16%) Consul
5 3 (3.16%) Grafana
5 3 (3.16%) Istio
6 1 (1.05%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (33.68%) Google
2 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
3 22 (23.16%) Apple
4 18 (18.95%) SAP
5 15 (15.79%) New Relic
6 12 (12.63%) Oracle
7 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.11%) VMware