Games Jobs in Leeds

Gaming
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited 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 78 113 53
Rank change year-on-year +35 -60 -26
Permanent jobs citing Games 4 21 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.51% 0.88% 4.94%
As % of the General category 0.76% 1.57% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 42
10th Percentile - £40,000 £50,200
25th Percentile £82,500 £45,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £54,900 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.49% -31.38% +33.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £66,250 £85,000
90th Percentile - £82,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £92,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +76.19% -25.00% +16.67%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 529 1,334 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 67.47% 55.89% 68.51%
Number of salaries quoted 355 978 1,077
10th Percentile £25,313 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £51,500 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -5.66% +3.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £94,511 £86,625 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year - -8.90% +9.76%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Leeds

Games
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Games in Leeds

Games
Salary Histogram in Leeds

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

Salary histogram for Games in Leeds

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Development
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Software Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Laravel
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform