Online Games Jobs in England

Online Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Online Games over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 649 809 845
Rank change year-on-year +160 +36 +23
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 30 41 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.046% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 27 38 48
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £57,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +12.16% -1.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £86,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -

All Generic Skills
England

Online Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,639 30,336 37,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.80% 33.77% 44.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,618 20,935 20,403
10th Percentile £30,940 £28,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in England

Online Games
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Online Games in England

Online Games
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Online Games in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Online Games in England

Online 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 Online Games within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +116 14 £75,000 +50.00% 40
South East +83 7 £75,000 +66.67% 10
North of England +10 6 £43,750 -38.81% 8
North West - 4 £42,500 - 4
East of England - 3 £65,000 - 3
North East +18 2 £65,000 -9.09% 3
Online Games
UK

Online 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
1 4 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (6.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.67%) WordPress
3 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Cloudflare
3 3 (10.00%) Google Analytics
4 2 (6.67%) Anthos
4 2 (6.67%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Figma
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) MySQL
2 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.67%) Tableau
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Power BI
6 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) NUnit
2 5 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 4 (13.33%) Jasmine
3 4 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) Android Studio
4 2 (6.67%) TestRail
4 2 (6.67%) Xcode
5 1 (3.33%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) Maven
5 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 30 (100.00%) Games
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Marketing
4 6 (20.00%) Publishing
5 5 (16.67%) iGaming
6 3 (10.00%) Retail
7 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Banking
7 2 (6.67%) Finance
8 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Senior
2 8 (26.67%) Developer
3 5 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Games Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Administrator
6 2 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) DBA
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior DBA
6 2 (6.67%) SEO Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) CSS
1 6 (20.00%) HTML
2 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (16.67%) CSS3
2 5 (16.67%) HTML5
2 5 (16.67%) React
2 5 (16.67%) RESTful
2 5 (16.67%) Vue
3 4 (13.33%) Jest
3 4 (13.33%) REST
4 3 (10.00%) React Native
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Web Services
5 1 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Sports Betting
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile Games
3 2 (6.67%) Blog
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Apple iOS
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Agile
2 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (20.00%) Scrum
3 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (16.67%) Mobile First
4 5 (16.67%) MVC
5 4 (13.33%) API Design
5 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (13.33%) User Experience
5 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
6 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) C#
2 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) TypeScript
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) Swift
5 2 (6.67%) Bash
5 2 (6.67%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) C++
6 1 (3.33%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) Kibana
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Rollbar
3 3 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Ahrefs
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (3.33%) Apple
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) Facebook
5 1 (3.33%) Wrike