Games Jobs in the Midlands

Gaming
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 92 180
Rank change year-on-year -94 +88 -54
Permanent jobs citing Games 127 249 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.09% 3.28% 1.80%
As % of the General category 2.02% 4.69% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 65 40 86
10th Percentile £31,600 £22,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £23,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,276 5,313 8,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 54.02% 69.96% 67.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,549 2,948 4,722
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £28,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,004 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,040
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the Midlands

Games
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Games in the Midlands

Games
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the Midlands

Games
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
West Midlands -47 107 £47,500 +47.29% 28
East Midlands -87 20 £65,000 +24.13% 22
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.51%) AutoCAD
3 4 (3.15%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.57%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.57%) Maya
4 2 (1.57%) ZBrush
5 1 (0.79%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.79%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.66%) AWS
2 10 (7.87%) Azure
3 5 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (3.94%) Cloudflare
3 5 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.15%) SaaS
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.79%) Figma
5 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.54%) 3GPP
1 21 (16.54%) 5G
1 21 (16.54%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (3.94%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) SSH
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.36%) Data Mining
2 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) JIRA
2 4 (3.15%) Git
3 3 (2.36%) Bugzilla
4 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.57%) JUnit
5 1 (0.79%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.79%) Grunt
5 1 (0.79%) gulp
5 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 41 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.32%) Finance
3 21 (16.54%) Telecoms
4 19 (14.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (13.39%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (13.39%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.72%) Marketing
6 6 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.57%) iGaming
8 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (26.77%) Developer
2 25 (19.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (16.54%) Project Manager
4 15 (11.81%) Lead
5 11 (8.66%) Hardware Engineer
6 10 (7.87%) Senior
7 8 (6.30%) C++ Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Electrical Engineer
7 8 (6.30%) Lead Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.94%) Games Developer
8 5 (3.94%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (3.94%) Technical Leader
9 4 (3.15%) Analyst
9 4 (3.15%) Designer
9 4 (3.15%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (3.15%) Senior Designer
10 3 (2.36%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.36%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 10 (7.87%) HTML
3 7 (5.51%) Laravel
3 7 (5.51%) React
4 6 (4.72%) CSS
4 6 (4.72%) Vue
5 5 (3.94%) Pixi.js
6 4 (3.15%) HTML5
7 3 (2.36%) .NET
7 3 (2.36%) JSON
7 3 (2.36%) RESTful
8 2 (1.57%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.57%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.57%) JWT
8 2 (1.57%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.57%) REST
8 2 (1.57%) Spring
8 2 (1.57%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.54%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.66%) Operational Technology
3 10 (7.87%) Mobile App
4 9 (7.09%) Virtual Reality
5 8 (6.30%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (5.51%) Augmented Reality
7 6 (4.72%) e-Learning
8 5 (3.94%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.94%) Clustering
8 5 (3.94%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (3.94%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (3.15%) Educational Technology
9 4 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.57%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.57%) IoT
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.57%) Online Games
10 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.57%) Web3
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (22.83%) Mentoring
2 25 (19.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (14.96%) Project Management
3 19 (14.96%) Risk Management
4 17 (13.39%) ERP
4 17 (13.39%) Systems Engineering
5 16 (12.60%) Customer Requirements
6 15 (11.81%) Agile
7 13 (10.24%) Mathematics
8 11 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (5.51%) Game Development
9 7 (5.51%) Product Management
9 7 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (4.72%) B2B
10 6 (4.72%) Data Science
10 6 (4.72%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (4.72%) Product Strategy
10 6 (4.72%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.39%) JavaScript
2 11 (8.66%) C#
3 9 (7.09%) C++
3 9 (7.09%) PHP
4 5 (3.94%) Rust
4 5 (3.94%) SQL
5 3 (2.36%) Java
5 3 (2.36%) Python
6 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.79%) C
7 1 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Degree
2 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.51%) Chartered Engineer
4 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.36%) ISEB
4 3 (2.36%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.57%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CCNA
6 1 (0.79%) CCNA CyberOps
6 1 (0.79%) CCNP
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.94%) Hyper-V
1 5 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.94%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (14.96%) IFS
2 17 (13.39%) Workday
3 16 (12.60%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.94%) Dell
4 5 (3.94%) EqualLogic
4 5 (3.94%) NetApp
4 5 (3.94%) Nimble Storage
4 5 (3.94%) VMware
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco