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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 803 844
Rank change year-on-year +140 +41 +33
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 28 37 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.043% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 25 35 53
10th Percentile £41,750 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 17,611 29,869 39,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.07% 34.77% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,937 20,885 21,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
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 £111,250 £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 12 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 12 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 +126 14 £70,000 +33.33% 30
North of England +33 5 £45,000 -37.06% 9
East of England - 5 £75,000 - 2
South East - 4 £67,000 - 16
North West - 3 £42,500 - 4
North East +14 2 £65,000 -9.09% 4
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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.14%) WordPress
3 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) GCP
2 4 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Google Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (7.14%) Anthos
4 2 (7.14%) Cloudflare
4 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Figma
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MySQL
2 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.14%) OLTP
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Redis
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) Tableau
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Android Studio
2 2 (7.14%) TestRail
2 2 (7.14%) Xcode
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 28 (100.00%) Games
2 8 (28.57%) Marketing
3 6 (21.43%) Publishing
4 5 (17.86%) iGaming
4 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Test Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Games Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DBA
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) PHP Developer
6 2 (7.14%) QA Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) QA Leader
6 2 (7.14%) QA Test Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DBA
6 2 (7.14%) SEO Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Team Leader
6 2 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Node.js
1 4 (14.29%) React
1 4 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) React Native
3 2 (7.14%) Laravel
3 2 (7.14%) NestJS
3 2 (7.14%) Next.js
3 2 (7.14%) Symfony
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Sports Betting
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile Games
3 2 (7.14%) Blog
3 2 (7.14%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.14%) Clustering
3 2 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Android
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (17.86%) Coaching
4 5 (17.86%) High Availability
4 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
4 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) User Experience
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
6 3 (10.71%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) SQL
1 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
2 5 (17.86%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) PHP
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) Swift
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Kibana
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Ahrefs
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.14%) Screaming Frog
4 1 (3.57%) Apple
4 1 (3.57%) Facebook
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Wrike