Online Games Jobs in London

Online Gaming
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Online 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 382 498 578
Rank change year-on-year +116 +80 +45
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 14 3 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.012% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.031% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 26
10th Percentile £57,500 £37,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £56,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £57,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -2.10% +12.16% -1.92%

All Generic Skills
London

Online Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,681 9,669 14,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.45% 40.24% 46.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,047 6,782 10,232
10th Percentile £41,550 £37,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,446
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.89% +1.93%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in London

Online Games
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Online Games in London

Online Games
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Online Games in London

Online 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 Online Games within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 - 3 £150,000 - 2
Online Games
England

Online 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 2 (14.29%) OpenStack
1 2 (14.29%) WordPress
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Google Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Anthos
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Android Studio
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
1 1 (7.14%) Xcode
General
1 14 (100.00%) Games
2 5 (35.71%) iGaming
2 5 (35.71%) Marketing
2 5 (35.71%) Publishing
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Developer
1 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Senior
1 2 (14.29%) SEO Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
2 1 (7.14%) CRM Executive
2 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Development
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Mobile
2 1 (7.14%) iOS Developer
2 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) React Native
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Sports Betting
2 3 (21.43%) Mobile Games
3 2 (14.29%) Blog
3 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Apple iOS
2 2 (14.29%) Android
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Analytics
2 3 (21.43%) Coaching
2 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (21.43%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) iOS Development
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 2 (14.29%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Swift
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Objective-C
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Kibana
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Ahrefs
2 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 2 (14.29%) Screaming Frog
3 1 (7.14%) Apple
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Facebook
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Wrike