Games Jobs in Kent

Gaming
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 82 80
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +31
Permanent jobs citing Games 10 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.18% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the General category 2.02% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £31,450 -
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% -7.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £36,000 £57,625 £55,000
90th Percentile - £63,550 -
South East median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -25.00% -14.29%

All General Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 496 680 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 58.56% 51.83% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 291 411 249
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,615 £85,000 £72,350
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Kent

Games
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Games in Kent

Games
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Kent region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £35,000 -
Games
South East

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Broadband
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Incident Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Support
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Recruitment Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Trainee
2 1 (10.00%) Trainee Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Trainee Recruitment Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (30.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 3 (30.00%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Animation
1 3 (30.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) 3D Animation
2 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (30.00%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (30.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (30.00%) Storytelling
2 3 (30.00%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bicep
1 3 (30.00%) HLSL
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) MaaS360
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) McAfee
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (30.00%) Sophos