Games Jobs in London

Gaming
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 91 79
Rank change year-on-year -131 -12 +43
Permanent jobs citing Games 327 1,260 3,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.39% 3.58% 4.65%
As % of the General category 2.05% 5.21% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 239 369 693
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,280 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -2.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,922 24,181 45,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.55% 68.76% 67.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,346 16,674 22,645
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,469 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £54,991 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +25 59 £50,000 -22.48% 34
West London -62 14 £77,500 +29.17% 23
South London -72 5 £65,000 +30.00% 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 47 (14.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.92%) SAS
4 2 (0.61%) WordPress
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (3.06%) AutoCAD
1 10 (3.06%) Revit
2 7 (2.14%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.22%) Blender
4 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.22%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.61%) Sketch
6 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 42 (12.84%) Endur
2 8 (2.45%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.61%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.31%) Magento
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.68%) AWS
2 29 (8.87%) Azure
3 17 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.28%) Google Workspace
6 11 (3.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 9 (2.75%) Asana
8 8 (2.45%) GitHub
8 8 (2.45%) SaaS
9 7 (2.14%) Serverless
10 6 (1.83%) GCP
10 6 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.53%) Vercel
12 4 (1.22%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.92%) PaaS
14 2 (0.61%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.61%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.61%) CloudFront
14 2 (0.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.50%) Firewall
2 16 (4.89%) DNS
3 12 (3.67%) Wireless
4 11 (3.36%) Broadband
4 11 (3.36%) NAS
5 6 (1.83%) LAN
5 6 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.53%) BGP
7 4 (1.22%) WAN
8 3 (0.92%) DHCP
8 3 (0.92%) IPv6
8 3 (0.92%) Network Security
8 3 (0.92%) VPN
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.61%) HTTP
9 2 (0.61%) MPLS
9 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.31%) SMS
10 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.49%) SQL Server
2 44 (13.46%) RDBMS
2 44 (13.46%) Relational Database
3 32 (9.79%) MySQL
4 26 (7.95%) Redis
5 18 (5.50%) Tableau
6 15 (4.59%) Power BI
7 12 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.06%) Big Data
8 10 (3.06%) Looker
9 9 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.45%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.14%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.22%) QlikView
14 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (2.75%) Git
2 5 (1.53%) Cypress.io
2 5 (1.53%) Grunt
2 5 (1.53%) gulp
2 5 (1.53%) JIRA
2 5 (1.53%) webpack
3 4 (1.22%) Storybook
4 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.31%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) JUnit
5 1 (0.31%) Maven
5 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.04%) Marketing
3 37 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.17%) Finance
5 22 (6.73%) Advertising
6 15 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.59%) Legal
7 14 (4.28%) iGaming
8 13 (3.98%) Retail
9 7 (2.14%) Banking
10 6 (1.83%) Law
11 5 (1.53%) Back Office
11 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.92%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Electronics
14 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (25.38%) Senior
2 75 (22.94%) Developer
3 35 (10.70%) Lead
4 32 (9.79%) Games Developer
5 31 (9.48%) .NET Developer
6 25 (7.65%) Development Manager
6 25 (7.65%) Senior Developer
7 23 (7.03%) Senior Manager
8 22 (6.73%) Endur Manager
8 22 (6.73%) OpenLink Manager
8 22 (6.73%) Software Development Manager
8 22 (6.73%) Software Manager
9 19 (5.81%) Lead Developer
10 18 (5.50%) Architect
11 16 (4.89%) Senior Development Manager
12 15 (4.59%) Consultant
12 15 (4.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (4.59%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.28%) Senior Games Developer
13 14 (4.28%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.01%) Kafka
2 35 (10.70%) .NET
3 22 (6.73%) Unreal Engine
4 20 (6.12%) HTML
4 20 (6.12%) React
5 13 (3.98%) CSS
5 13 (3.98%) HTML5
6 12 (3.67%) .NET Core
6 12 (3.67%) ASP.NET
6 12 (3.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 11 (3.36%) Node.js
8 10 (3.06%) Next.js
8 10 (3.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 10 (3.06%) V-Ray
9 9 (2.75%) Tailwind CSS
10 8 (2.45%) RESTful
11 7 (2.14%) Blazor
11 7 (2.14%) CSS3
11 7 (2.14%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.84%) Swaptions
2 22 (6.73%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (5.50%) Algorithms
3 18 (5.50%) Augmented Reality
4 17 (5.20%) Virtual Reality
5 16 (4.89%) Virtual Team
6 14 (4.28%) e-Learning
7 12 (3.67%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.06%) Animation
8 10 (3.06%) HoloLens
8 10 (3.06%) HTC Vive
8 10 (3.06%) Oculus
9 9 (2.75%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.45%) Online Gambling
10 8 (2.45%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.45%) SCADA
10 8 (2.45%) Social Media
11 7 (2.14%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.40%) Windows
2 17 (5.20%) Windows Server
3 15 (4.59%) Mac OS
4 13 (3.98%) Linux
5 9 (2.75%) Android
6 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.92%) Debian
6 3 (0.92%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.92%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Unix
7 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (19.57%) Roadmaps
2 58 (17.74%) Agile
3 56 (17.13%) IT Strategy
3 56 (17.13%) Technology Strategy
4 54 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (15.29%) SDLC
5 50 (15.29%) Software Engineering
6 43 (13.15%) Strategic Roadmap
7 42 (12.84%) Business Transformation
7 42 (12.84%) Creative Thinking
8 41 (12.54%) Analytics
9 40 (12.23%) Data Modelling
10 39 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (11.93%) Data Science
11 37 (11.31%) Computer Science
12 36 (11.01%) Mentoring
13 31 (9.48%) SOLID
13 31 (9.48%) Workshop Facilitation
14 24 (7.34%) Full Stack Development
14 24 (7.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 54 (16.51%) SQL
2 48 (14.68%) Java
3 47 (14.37%) Python
4 42 (12.84%) VB
5 37 (11.31%) C#
6 23 (7.03%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.59%) Bash
7 15 (4.59%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.67%) C++
9 10 (3.06%) Go
10 8 (2.45%) C
11 4 (1.22%) R
12 2 (0.61%) PHP
12 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.61%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) ABAP
13 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 72 (22.02%) Degree
2 24 (7.34%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.98%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.53%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.22%) PhD
6 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.61%) CCIE
7 2 (0.61%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 2 (0.61%) CCNP
7 2 (0.61%) CCSA
7 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.61%) CSPO
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (3.36%) GDPR
3 11 (3.36%) SOC 2
4 7 (2.14%) QA
5 4 (1.22%) SLA
6 2 (0.61%) ITGC
6 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.31%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.22%) Docker
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.98%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (3.06%) Terraform
4 8 (2.45%) QRadar
5 4 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.92%) Ansible
6 3 (0.92%) Salt
7 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) SCCM
7 1 (0.31%) WMI
7 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.46%) Oracle
3 42 (12.84%) OpenLink
3 42 (12.84%) Sybase
3 42 (12.84%) TIBCO
4 30 (9.17%) Apple
5 24 (7.34%) Adobe
5 24 (7.34%) Google
6 11 (3.36%) VMware
7 10 (3.06%) Autodesk
8 9 (2.75%) YouTube
9 8 (2.45%) Darktrace
9 8 (2.45%) Databricks
10 5 (1.53%) Cisco
10 5 (1.53%) Instagram
11 4 (1.22%) Logitech
11 4 (1.22%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.92%) BT
12 3 (0.92%) Juniper
12 3 (0.92%) Spotify