Games Engineer Jobs in London

Game Engineer
England > London

The median Game Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 503 624
Rank change year-on-year +103 +121 +245
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Engineer 1 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.008% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.009% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - - £43,750
25th Percentile £81,250 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +94.12% -29.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £43,750 £66,250
90th Percentile - - £73,750
England median annual salary £43,750 £42,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -39.29% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Games Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Games Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Games Engineer in London

Games Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Games Engineer in London

Games Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Games Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Games Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto

Games Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Riverbed