Games Jobs in London

Gaming
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 238 106
Rank change year-on-year +107 -132 -30
Permanent jobs citing Games 333 322 959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.59% 1.30% 3.13%
As % of the General category 3.36% 1.96% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 111 236 318
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,750 £113,250
England median annual salary £25,267 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -54.06% -12.00% -3.85%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,902 16,468 20,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 77.15% 66.50% 68.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,378 11,501 14,818
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in London

Games
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Games in London

Games
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in London

Games
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Central London +53 81 £75,000 +50.00% 186
West London +42 32 £30,000 -63.08% 38
South London +29 26 - - 3
East London - 19 £45,000 - 55
North London - 11 £95,000 - 1
Games
England

Games
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.60%) Confluence
2 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.60%) WordPress
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 36 (10.81%) Maya
2 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (1.50%) Blender
3 5 (1.50%) CINEMA 4D
4 4 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.90%) Trello
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.30%) Dynamics AX
1 11 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.00%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.90%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.90%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.90%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.90%) SAP FSCM
3 3 (0.90%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.30%) Lorenzo
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.30%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 38 (11.41%) Azure
2 34 (10.21%) AWS
3 27 (8.11%) GCP
4 18 (5.41%) GitHub
5 17 (5.11%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.30%) Boomi
7 11 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 8 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.20%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.20%) PaaS
9 4 (1.20%) SaaS
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.90%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 92 (27.63%) Broadband
2 14 (4.20%) HTTP
3 6 (1.80%) VPN
4 5 (1.50%) Firewall
5 3 (0.90%) DNS
6 2 (0.60%) Internet
6 2 (0.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.30%) DHCP
7 1 (0.30%) LAN
7 1 (0.30%) OSPF
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.30%) Value-Added Service
7 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.11%) Power BI
1 17 (5.11%) Tableau
2 12 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 10 (3.00%) MySQL
3 10 (3.00%) SAP BW
4 8 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.40%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.10%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.10%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.20%) Looker
7 4 (1.20%) Power Query
7 4 (1.20%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.90%) Redis
9 2 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (5.71%) Git
2 8 (2.40%) Gradle
3 7 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (1.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.20%) Maven
6 2 (0.60%) JIRA
6 2 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.30%) Postman
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) TestRail
7 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 122 (36.64%) Social Skills
2 107 (32.13%) Finance
3 72 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (20.42%) Law
5 48 (14.41%) Retail
6 40 (12.01%) Marketing
7 24 (7.21%) Manufacturing
8 22 (6.61%) Banking
8 22 (6.61%) Telecoms
9 21 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (5.11%) Advertising
10 17 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (4.20%) Dutch Language
11 14 (4.20%) French Language
12 9 (2.70%) iGaming
13 8 (2.40%) Publishing
14 7 (2.10%) Automotive
15 6 (1.80%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 175 (52.55%) Senior
2 37 (11.11%) Developer
3 32 (9.61%) Architect
4 29 (8.71%) Senior Manager
5 27 (8.11%) IT Architect
5 27 (8.11%) Senior Service Manager
6 25 (7.51%) Engineering Manager
6 25 (7.51%) Senior Architect
6 25 (7.51%) ServiceNow Manager
7 23 (6.91%) Lead
8 22 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 20 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (4.50%) Analyst
11 15 (4.50%) Android Developer
12 11 (3.30%) CRM Architect
12 11 (3.30%) Salesforce Architect
13 10 (3.00%) Data Scientist
14 9 (2.70%) Consultant
14 9 (2.70%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.52%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 73 (21.92%) GraphQL
3 67 (20.12%) WebGL
4 29 (8.71%) Kafka
5 15 (4.50%) CSS
5 15 (4.50%) HTML
6 13 (3.90%) React
7 11 (3.30%) RESTful
8 7 (2.10%) Laravel
8 7 (2.10%) Middleware
8 7 (2.10%) WebSockets
9 6 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.80%) HTML5
9 6 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.80%) REST
10 5 (1.50%) .NET
10 5 (1.50%) CSS3
10 5 (1.50%) Jest
10 5 (1.50%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (1.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 67 (20.12%) Animation
2 43 (12.91%) Management Information System
3 40 (12.01%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (10.81%) Mobile Games
5 28 (8.41%) Algorithms
5 28 (8.41%) Product Ownership
6 25 (7.51%) Video\Live Streaming
7 22 (6.61%) Mobile App
8 20 (6.01%) Blockchain
9 19 (5.71%) Cloud Native
10 16 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (4.50%) Online Games
12 14 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (3.30%) Robotics
14 10 (3.00%) Educational Technology
15 9 (2.70%) Sports Betting
16 8 (2.40%) PMI
17 7 (2.10%) Reinsurance
18 6 (1.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.01%) Android
1 20 (6.01%) Apple iOS
2 17 (5.11%) Linux
3 11 (3.30%) Windows
4 5 (1.50%) Mac OS X
5 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (48.05%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (40.24%) Artificial Intelligence
3 95 (28.53%) Analytics
4 80 (24.02%) Prototyping
5 78 (23.42%) Software Engineering
6 77 (23.12%) Rapid Prototyping
7 72 (21.62%) Storytelling
8 67 (20.12%) 3D Animation
8 67 (20.12%) Business Strategy
8 67 (20.12%) Visual Effects
9 62 (18.62%) Agile
10 61 (18.32%) Computer Science
11 55 (16.52%) Roadmaps
12 47 (14.11%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (13.51%) DevOps
14 44 (13.21%) Machine Learning
15 42 (12.61%) Project Management
16 41 (12.31%) ERP
17 40 (12.01%) Data Analytics
17 40 (12.01%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 72 (21.62%) Python
2 67 (20.12%) HLSL
3 42 (12.61%) SQL
4 28 (8.41%) Java
5 20 (6.01%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.11%) Swift
7 16 (4.80%) Kotlin
7 16 (4.80%) Objective-C
8 14 (4.20%) Scala
9 13 (3.90%) C#
10 11 (3.30%) PHP
11 7 (2.10%) C++
11 7 (2.10%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.50%) R
13 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) Go
15 1 (0.30%) Bash
15 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 125 (37.54%) Degree
2 42 (12.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.01%) PhD
4 19 (5.71%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.60%) CISA
6 11 (3.30%) ISACA
7 9 (2.70%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.20%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.60%) ACCA
11 2 (0.60%) CCSAS
11 2 (0.60%) CIMA
11 2 (0.60%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.21%) QA
2 11 (3.30%) ITGC
3 5 (1.50%) NCSC
3 5 (1.50%) SLA
4 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) DICOM
5 1 (0.30%) HL7
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
5 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (3.30%) Docker
2 10 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.50%) Argo
3 5 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.20%) SCCM
5 3 (0.90%) Terraform
6 2 (0.60%) Grafana
6 2 (0.60%) Istio
6 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.60%) Puppet
7 1 (0.30%) Ansible
7 1 (0.30%) Consul
7 1 (0.30%) Kibana
7 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (13.51%) SAP
2 41 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.71%) ServiceNow
4 27 (8.11%) Google
4 27 (8.11%) Oracle
5 25 (7.51%) Adobe
6 16 (4.80%) Apple
7 12 (3.60%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.30%) Dell
8 11 (3.30%) MuleSoft
9 9 (2.70%) New Relic
10 7 (2.10%) Ariba
11 6 (1.80%) TikTok
12 5 (1.50%) Facebook
13 4 (1.20%) Cisco
13 4 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.90%) Confluent
14 3 (0.90%) Twitter
14 3 (0.90%) VMware
14 3 (0.90%) Zoho