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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 218 69
Rank change year-on-year +69 -149 +34
Permanent jobs citing Games 925 1,150 4,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.01% 1.35% 4.54%
As % of the General category 2.98% 2.28% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 498 892 798
10th Percentile £23,504 £29,100 £33,450
25th Percentile £25,087 £38,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £102,875
UK median annual salary £30,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -42.86% -16.00% -10.71%

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 31,047 50,509 63,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 67.42% 59.28% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16,351 35,638 34,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,445 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £83,426
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +79 380 £25,087 -52.22% 221
London +44 253 £62,500 -5.66% 710
North West +54 181 £23,504 -47.77% 131
South West +59 142 £25,267 -41.91% 43
North East +42 132 £25,087 -60.85% 37
Midlands +33 81 £42,500 -19.05% 109
Yorkshire +78 67 £25,267 -49.47% 58
South East +28 62 £31,250 -37.50% 245
West Midlands 0 45 £55,000 - 58
East Midlands +52 36 £42,500 -19.05% 47
East of England -9 17 £60,000 - 59
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 21 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.43%) IIS
6 3 (0.32%) CMS
6 3 (0.32%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 42 (4.54%) Maya
2 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.97%) Blender
4 8 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.54%) CINEMA 4D
6 3 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.32%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.22%) Moqups
7 2 (0.22%) Sketch
7 2 (0.22%) ZBrush
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.11%) InDesign
8 1 (0.11%) Pro Tools
8 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.38%) Dynamics AX
2 11 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.97%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.32%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 111 (12.00%) AWS
2 75 (8.11%) GCP
3 66 (7.14%) Azure
4 31 (3.35%) GitHub
5 30 (3.24%) SaaS
6 28 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (2.59%) Power Platform
8 21 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (1.19%) Boomi
10 11 (1.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 10 (1.08%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.08%) Serverless
12 8 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (0.86%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (0.65%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.65%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 413 (44.65%) Broadband
2 22 (2.38%) HTTP
3 9 (0.97%) Firewall
4 7 (0.76%) Internet
4 7 (0.76%) SAN
5 6 (0.65%) Bluetooth
5 6 (0.65%) NAS
6 5 (0.54%) DNS
6 5 (0.54%) VoIP
6 5 (0.54%) VPN
7 3 (0.32%) DHCP
7 3 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.22%) Value-Added Service
8 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.16%) MySQL
2 19 (2.05%) Power BI
3 18 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.84%) Tableau
5 16 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.19%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.97%) Redis
9 9 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.97%) SAP BW
10 8 (0.86%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.43%) Looker
13 4 (0.43%) Power Query
13 4 (0.43%) PowerPivot
14 3 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 93 (10.05%) Git
2 27 (2.92%) webpack
3 22 (2.38%) gulp
4 18 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.51%) Gradle
6 8 (0.86%) Maven
6 8 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (0.65%) JIRA
8 6 (0.65%) TestRail
9 5 (0.54%) Vite
10 4 (0.43%) GitLab
10 4 (0.43%) Grunt
10 4 (0.43%) Postman
11 3 (0.32%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.22%) Android Studio
12 2 (0.22%) Selenium
12 2 (0.22%) Xcode
13 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 435 (47.03%) Banking
2 166 (17.95%) Finance
3 155 (16.76%) Social Skills
4 90 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (8.76%) Law
5 81 (8.76%) Retail
6 69 (7.46%) Marketing
7 45 (4.86%) Manufacturing
8 41 (4.43%) Telecoms
9 38 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (3.68%) Advertising
11 26 (2.81%) Billing
12 23 (2.49%) iGaming
13 21 (2.27%) Legal
14 18 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.73%) Dutch Language
16 14 (1.51%) French Language
16 14 (1.51%) Publishing
17 7 (0.76%) Automotive
18 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 409 (44.22%) Customer Service Advisor
2 171 (18.49%) Senior
3 119 (12.86%) Developer
4 66 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 60 (6.49%) Lead
6 46 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (4.32%) Analyst
7 40 (4.32%) Architect
8 34 (3.68%) Senior Developer
9 28 (3.03%) Senior Architect
10 27 (2.92%) IT Architect
11 25 (2.70%) JavaScript Developer
11 25 (2.70%) PHP Developer
12 24 (2.59%) Games Developer
13 21 (2.27%) Lead Developer
14 17 (1.84%) Android Developer
14 17 (1.84%) PHP Software Engineer
14 17 (1.84%) Senior PHP Developer
15 16 (1.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 16 (1.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.68%) HTML
2 66 (7.14%) CSS
3 44 (4.76%) Kafka
4 42 (4.54%) Node.js
4 42 (4.54%) React
5 40 (4.32%) Laravel
6 35 (3.78%) LAMP
7 26 (2.81%) Pixi.js
8 22 (2.38%) WebGL
9 18 (1.95%) Spine.js
10 17 (1.84%) RESTful
11 16 (1.73%) WebSockets
12 15 (1.62%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.62%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 14 (1.51%) .NET
13 14 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (1.41%) HTML5
14 13 (1.41%) Jest
15 12 (1.30%) REST
15 12 (1.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.35%) Mobile App
2 52 (5.62%) Mobile Games
3 46 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (4.43%) Algorithms
5 32 (3.46%) Blockchain
6 30 (3.24%) Cloud Native
7 29 (3.14%) Online Games
8 27 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.92%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.59%) Robotics
10 22 (2.38%) Sports Betting
11 21 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.95%) IoT
12 18 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.51%) Social Media
14 13 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.41%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.08%) Clustering
15 10 (1.08%) Educational Technology
16 9 (0.97%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.89%) Windows
2 35 (3.78%) Linux
3 25 (2.70%) Android
3 25 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.54%) Mac OS X
7 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.22%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (58.05%) Problem-Solving
2 438 (47.35%) Customer Service
3 138 (14.92%) Software Engineering
4 130 (14.05%) Agile
5 123 (13.30%) Analytics
6 107 (11.57%) Mentoring
7 83 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence
8 64 (6.92%) Business Strategy
9 63 (6.81%) E-Commerce
10 62 (6.70%) Computer Science
10 62 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
10 62 (6.70%) DevOps
11 59 (6.38%) Coaching
11 59 (6.38%) Machine Learning
12 56 (6.05%) Data Analytics
13 54 (5.84%) CI/CD
14 52 (5.62%) ERP
15 49 (5.30%) Roadmaps
16 47 (5.08%) OOP
16 47 (5.08%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 100 (10.81%) Python
3 72 (7.78%) PHP
4 67 (7.24%) SQL
5 46 (4.97%) TypeScript
6 44 (4.76%) Java
7 25 (2.70%) C#
8 22 (2.38%) Scala
9 21 (2.27%) Swift
10 19 (2.05%) Kotlin
10 19 (2.05%) Objective-C
11 15 (1.62%) C++
11 15 (1.62%) Go
12 9 (0.97%) C
12 9 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.65%) Ladder Logic
13 6 (0.65%) R
14 5 (0.54%) Bash
15 3 (0.32%) Ruby
16 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (15.03%) Degree
2 30 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (2.38%) CISA
3 22 (2.38%) ISACA
4 15 (1.62%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.19%) PhD
6 8 (0.86%) ACCA
6 8 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 7 (0.76%) CIMA
7 7 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 4 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.22%) CCSAS
10 2 (0.22%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.22%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.22%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.11%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.81%) QA
2 22 (2.38%) ITGC
3 17 (1.84%) GDPR
4 13 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.54%) NCSC
5 5 (0.54%) SLA
6 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (2.38%) Docker
2 21 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.73%) Terraform
3 13 (1.41%) Argo
3 13 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.97%) Ansible
5 9 (0.97%) Grafana
6 5 (0.54%) Istio
6 5 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.54%) SCCM
7 4 (0.43%) Kustomize
7 4 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.43%) Puppet
8 3 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.22%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.11%) SCOM
10 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 416 (44.97%) BT
2 81 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 57 (6.16%) SAP
4 51 (5.51%) Google
5 38 (4.11%) Oracle
6 32 (3.46%) Adobe
7 23 (2.49%) Apple
8 17 (1.84%) Commvault
8 17 (1.84%) New Relic
9 14 (1.51%) Twitter
10 13 (1.41%) VMware
11 11 (1.19%) Dell
11 11 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.19%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.76%) Ariba
12 7 (0.76%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.65%) Siemens
14 5 (0.54%) Meraki
14 5 (0.54%) TikTok
15 4 (0.43%) HubSpot