Games Jobs in Liverpool

Gaming
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in Liverpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 8 77
Rank change year-on-year -52 +69 -22
Permanent jobs citing Games 28 157 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 2.52% 17.05% 1.69%
As % of the General category 5.05% 24.38% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22 0 10
10th Percentile - - £30,968
25th Percentile £39,720 - £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,117 - £46,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.57%
75th Percentile £55,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile £58,625 - £62,000
Merseyside median annual salary £45,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%

All General Skills
Liverpool

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Liverpool with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 555 644 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 49.87% 69.92% 65.01%
Number of salaries quoted 391 223 385
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £67,250 £75,000
Merseyside median annual salary £40,000 £44,875 £45,041
% change year-on-year -10.86% -0.37% +0.09%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Liverpool

Games
Salary Trend in Liverpool

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

Salary trend for Games in Liverpool

Games
Salary Histogram in Liverpool

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Liverpool over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in Liverpool

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 5 (17.86%) Figma
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.57%) GCP
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Games Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Games Programmer
3 5 (17.86%) Programmer
4 4 (14.29%) UI Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Head of Production
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Network Programmer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
7 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Blockchain Developer
7 1 (3.57%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Support
7 1 (3.57%) UX Designer
7 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) Unreal Engine
2 4 (14.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Mobile App
2 4 (14.29%) Animation
2 4 (14.29%) Augmented Reality
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Android
1 5 (17.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) VMS
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Game Development
2 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 5 (17.86%) User Experience
3 5 (17.86%) UX Design
4 4 (14.29%) Agile
4 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (14.29%) CAD
4 4 (14.29%) Data Science
4 4 (14.29%) Digital Twin
4 4 (14.29%) Visualisation
5 3 (10.71%) Budget Management
5 3 (10.71%) ERP
5 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.71%) Project Management
5 3 (10.71%) Project Planning
5 3 (10.71%) Project Roadmap
5 3 (10.71%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.57%) Puppet
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Apple