Games Engineer Jobs in England

Game Engineer
UK > England

The median Game Engineer salary in England is £43,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 826 891
Rank change year-on-year +140 +65 +233
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Engineer 4 3 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.003% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.004% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 33
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £42,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -39.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £56,563 £69,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,875 £84,750 £86,500
UK median annual salary £43,750 £42,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -39.29% -15.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Games Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Games Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Games Engineer in England

Games Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Games Engineer in England

Games Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Games Engineer in England

Games Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North of England - 3 £42,500 - 1
North West - 3 £42,500 - 1
London +110 1 £82,500 +94.12% 1
Games Engineer
UK

Games Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Games Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Games Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (75.00%) Online Games
2 3 (75.00%) Confluence
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) TestRail
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) F5
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Meraki
4 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) OSPF
4 1 (25.00%) BGP
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless

Games Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) TestRail
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Riverbed