Games Developer Jobs in England

Game Developer
UK > England

The median Game Developer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 670 883 1080
Rank change year-on-year +213 +197 -275
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Developer 165 42 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.046% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.050% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 165 40 26
10th Percentile £27,500 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £55,000 £75,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +30.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Games Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games Developer in England

Games Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Games Developer in England

Games Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games Developer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games Developer in England

Games Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
South West +65 88 £36,000 -15.29%
London +131 32 £67,500 +3.85% 3
North of England +61 32 £50,000 +14.29% 2
North East - 16 £60,000 - 1
North West +22 15 £41,235 -8.37%
South East +19 9 £50,000 -6.98%
Midlands +20 4 £63,750 +6.25% 2
West Midlands +17 2 £75,000 +25.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire +89 1 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Games Developer
UK

Games Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Games Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 165 (100.00%) Games
2 138 (83.64%) C#
3 113 (68.48%) Degree
4 106 (64.24%) Software Engineering
4 106 (64.24%) Microsoft
5 94 (56.97%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 92 (55.76%) Virtual Reality
7 90 (54.55%) Git
8 88 (53.33%) SC Cleared
8 88 (53.33%) Security Cleared
8 88 (53.33%) Use Case
8 88 (53.33%) JIRA
8 88 (53.33%) Scrum
8 88 (53.33%) Visual Studio
8 88 (53.33%) UML
8 88 (53.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 88 (53.33%) Bitbucket
8 88 (53.33%) Confluence
8 88 (53.33%) Design Patterns
8 88 (53.33%) Presentation Skills
9 59 (35.76%) DevOps
9 59 (35.76%) Sourcetree
10 49 (29.70%) .NET
11 44 (26.67%) JavaScript
12 35 (21.21%) Multithreading
13 33 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
14 30 (18.18%) Azure
15 29 (17.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 28 (16.97%) HTML
16 28 (16.97%) SQL Server

Games Developer 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 88 (53.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.18%) Azure
2 17 (10.30%) AWS
3 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.97%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.91%) MySQL
3 16 (9.70%) Redis
4 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (54.55%) Git
2 88 (53.33%) Bitbucket
2 88 (53.33%) JIRA
2 88 (53.33%) Visual Studio
3 59 (35.76%) Sourcetree
4 7 (4.24%) gulp
5 6 (3.64%) webpack
6 5 (3.03%) Grunt
7 1 (0.61%) PostCSS
7 1 (0.61%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.61%) Subversion
7 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 165 (100.00%) Games
2 88 (53.33%) Presentation Skills
3 17 (10.30%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.42%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (56.97%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 49 (29.70%) .NET
3 28 (16.97%) HTML
4 27 (16.36%) AngularJS
4 27 (16.36%) ASP.NET Web API
4 27 (16.36%) RESTful
5 20 (12.12%) .NET Core
6 19 (11.52%) HTML5
7 18 (10.91%) ASP.NET
7 18 (10.91%) ASP.NET MVC
8 16 (9.70%) Kafka
9 15 (9.09%) LINQ
10 11 (6.67%) JSON
10 11 (6.67%) Unreal Engine
11 8 (4.85%) Node.js
12 7 (4.24%) CSS
12 7 (4.24%) Pixi.js
12 7 (4.24%) WebGL
13 6 (3.64%) Electron
14 5 (3.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 92 (55.76%) Virtual Reality
2 8 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.03%) Animation
3 5 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.42%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.42%) Online Gambling
5 3 (1.82%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.21%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (1.21%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (64.24%) Software Engineering
2 88 (53.33%) Design Patterns
2 88 (53.33%) Scrum
2 88 (53.33%) UML
2 88 (53.33%) Use Case
3 59 (35.76%) DevOps
4 35 (21.21%) Multithreading
5 33 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 26 (15.76%) Computer Science
7 23 (13.94%) Microservices
8 18 (10.91%) Agile
8 18 (10.91%) MVC
9 16 (9.70%) SOLID
10 15 (9.09%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
11 13 (7.88%) Mathematics
12 9 (5.45%) Game Development
13 8 (4.85%) Low Latency
13 8 (4.85%) Statistics
14 7 (4.24%) User Experience
15 6 (3.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (83.64%) C#
2 44 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (5.45%) PHP
4 6 (3.64%) SQL
5 2 (1.21%) C
5 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.61%) RPG
Qualifications
1 113 (68.48%) Degree
2 88 (53.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 88 (53.33%) SC Cleared
2 88 (53.33%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.70%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (1.21%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Docker
Vendors
1 106 (64.24%) Microsoft
11 Games Developer jobs Nationwide