Games Jobs in England

Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 146 85
Rank change year-on-year -119 -61 +68
Permanent jobs citing Games 824 1,691 5,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.05% 2.38% 3.91%
As % of the General category 1.84% 3.61% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 546 605 1,644
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,375 £100,000 £99,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 44,799 46,891 99,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.17% 65.97% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,228 29,742 48,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,886 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in England

Games
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Games in England

Games
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in England

Games
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
London -70 246 £58,750 -16.07% 62
North of England -89 188 £52,500 -12.50% 56
Midlands -94 127 £50,000 +53.85% 50
South East -88 114 £50,000 -16.67% 57
West Midlands -47 107 £47,500 +47.29% 28
North West -102 98 £47,500 -9.52% 28
South West -27 92 £50,000 +5.26% 25
East of England -45 56 £60,000 -14.29% 23
Yorkshire -36 50 £50,000 -24.53% 21
North East +23 40 £60,000 +15.69% 7
East Midlands -87 20 £65,000 +24.13% 22
Games
UK

Games
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 41 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.52%) Confluence
3 10 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.09%) Apache Solr
5 6 (0.73%) CMS
5 6 (0.73%) WordPress
6 4 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2000
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.36%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.21%) Photoshop
4 8 (0.97%) AutoCAD
4 8 (0.97%) Blender
5 7 (0.85%) Maya
5 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.73%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.49%) ZBrush
9 3 (0.36%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.24%) Houdini
10 2 (0.24%) InDesign
10 2 (0.24%) Simulink
10 2 (0.24%) Sketch
10 2 (0.24%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.91%) Endur
2 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 109 (13.23%) Azure
2 90 (10.92%) AWS
3 56 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (3.28%) SaaS
5 16 (1.94%) Amazon S3
6 14 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (1.58%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.46%) GCP
8 12 (1.46%) Serverless
9 10 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 9 (1.09%) Asana
11 8 (0.97%) PaaS
12 7 (0.85%) GitHub
12 7 (0.85%) IaaS
13 6 (0.73%) Azure AKS
14 5 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (0.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (0.61%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.52%) Wireless
2 27 (3.28%) Firewall
3 22 (2.67%) DNS
4 21 (2.55%) 3GPP
4 21 (2.55%) 5G
4 21 (2.55%) Radio Access Network
5 17 (2.06%) Broadband
6 16 (1.94%) Internet
7 15 (1.82%) WAN
8 14 (1.70%) LAN
9 9 (1.09%) NAS
10 8 (0.97%) HTTP
10 8 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.61%) SAN
11 5 (0.61%) VPN
12 3 (0.36%) DHCP
12 3 (0.36%) VSAN
13 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.12%) BGP
14 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 36 (4.37%) Relational Database
3 35 (4.25%) MySQL
4 31 (3.76%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.43%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (1.82%) Redis
9 13 (1.58%) Power BI
10 12 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.73%) Tableau
14 5 (0.61%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.61%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.49%) Couchbase
16 3 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 90 (10.92%) Git
2 45 (5.46%) JIRA
3 29 (3.52%) Bitbucket
4 27 (3.28%) Visual Studio
5 23 (2.79%) Sourcetree
6 16 (1.94%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.46%) gulp
8 11 (1.33%) Maven
9 10 (1.21%) webpack
10 9 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.97%) GitLab
12 5 (0.61%) JMeter
12 5 (0.61%) Vite
12 5 (0.61%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.49%) PostCSS
13 4 (0.49%) rollup.js
13 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.36%) Bugzilla
14 3 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 206 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 107 (12.99%) Finance
3 71 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (7.04%) Marketing
5 57 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (6.19%) Retail
7 45 (5.46%) Manufacturing
8 27 (3.28%) Legal
9 26 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 25 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.79%) Billing
12 20 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (2.31%) Aerospace
14 18 (2.18%) Advertising
15 17 (2.06%) iGaming
16 16 (1.94%) Law
16 16 (1.94%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.82%) Electronics
18 10 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 247 (29.98%) Developer
2 163 (19.78%) Senior
3 80 (9.71%) Games Developer
4 60 (7.28%) .NET Developer
5 57 (6.92%) Senior Developer
6 56 (6.80%) Lead
6 56 (6.80%) Project Manager
7 45 (5.46%) Software Engineer
8 43 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 36 (4.37%) C# Developer
10 29 (3.52%) Architect
10 29 (3.52%) C# .NET Developer
11 28 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
12 26 (3.16%) Lead Developer
13 25 (3.03%) PHP Developer
14 24 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
14 24 (2.91%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.91%) Support Engineer
15 23 (2.79%) 3D Developer
15 23 (2.79%) Unity 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (11.04%) .NET
2 73 (8.86%) HTML
3 66 (8.01%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 58 (7.04%) React
5 55 (6.67%) Node.js
6 52 (6.31%) AngularJS
7 47 (5.70%) CSS
7 47 (5.70%) RESTful
8 34 (4.13%) .NET Core
9 31 (3.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 31 (3.76%) Unreal Engine
10 27 (3.28%) .NET Framework
10 27 (3.28%) HTML5
10 27 (3.28%) Vue
11 26 (3.16%) JSON
12 24 (2.91%) ASP.NET
13 23 (2.79%) Entity Framework
13 23 (2.79%) Laravel
14 22 (2.67%) Pixi.js
15 19 (2.31%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.83%) Virtual Reality
2 32 (3.88%) IoT
2 32 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.64%) Animation
3 30 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (3.40%) Mobile Games
5 24 (2.91%) Swaptions
6 23 (2.79%) Online Games
6 23 (2.79%) Operational Technology
7 20 (2.43%) Client/Server
8 19 (2.31%) Blockchain
8 19 (2.31%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.31%) Web3
9 15 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.70%) Augmented Reality
10 14 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (8.74%) Windows
2 38 (4.61%) Linux
3 20 (2.43%) Android
4 19 (2.31%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.18%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.33%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.21%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.49%) Unix
9 2 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (15.66%) Agile
2 108 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (11.65%) Software Engineering
4 83 (10.07%) Full Stack Development
5 75 (9.10%) Computer Science
6 73 (8.86%) Mentoring
6 73 (8.86%) Scrum
7 71 (8.62%) Project Management
8 68 (8.25%) DevOps
9 61 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
10 57 (6.92%) Roadmaps
11 56 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 54 (6.55%) User Experience
13 49 (5.95%) Mathematics
14 47 (5.70%) Customer Experience
14 47 (5.70%) Customer Service
14 47 (5.70%) Game Development
15 46 (5.58%) Decision-Making
16 44 (5.34%) Design Patterns
17 40 (4.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 139 (16.87%) JavaScript
2 129 (15.66%) C#
3 87 (10.56%) SQL
4 84 (10.19%) Python
5 54 (6.55%) Java
6 53 (6.43%) TypeScript
7 43 (5.22%) C++
8 41 (4.98%) PHP
9 25 (3.03%) Bash
9 25 (3.03%) VB
10 15 (1.82%) C
11 12 (1.46%) RPG
12 9 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.73%) Scala
14 5 (0.61%) ABAP
14 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 5 (0.61%) Rust
14 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 180 (21.84%) Degree
2 79 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 44 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 35 (4.25%) DBS Check
5 30 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.85%) A+ Certification
7 7 (0.85%) Chartered Engineer
8 6 (0.73%) MCP
8 6 (0.73%) PMP
9 5 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.49%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (0.49%) CCNP
10 4 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.37%) GDPR
2 27 (3.28%) QA
3 14 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.73%) SLA
6 3 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.24%) NIST
7 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.12%) COSHH
8 1 (0.12%) GRC
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.12%) ITGC
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.61%) Docker
3 20 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 26 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.31%) Terraform
3 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.09%) QRadar
3 9 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (0.85%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.85%) Puppet
6 3 (0.36%) Ansible
6 3 (0.36%) Grafana
6 3 (0.36%) Istio
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
7 2 (0.24%) SCCM
8 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 144 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.64%) Google
3 27 (3.28%) Apple
4 25 (3.03%) Oracle
5 24 (2.91%) OpenLink
5 24 (2.91%) Sybase
5 24 (2.91%) TIBCO
6 20 (2.43%) VMware
7 19 (2.31%) IFS
8 18 (2.18%) Adobe
9 17 (2.06%) Workday
10 10 (1.21%) Dell
11 9 (1.09%) Cisco
11 9 (1.09%) Darktrace
12 6 (0.73%) Instagram
13 5 (0.61%) Draytek
13 5 (0.61%) EqualLogic
13 5 (0.61%) Nimble Storage
13 5 (0.61%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.61%) YouTube