Games Jobs in the North East

Gaming
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in the North East. 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 57 80 104
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 -35
Permanent jobs citing Games 40 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.40% 0.62% 0.96%
As % of the General category 4.30% 1.06% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 33 6 14
10th Percentile £52,500 £27,876 £31,625
25th Percentile - £34,376 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,863 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% +15.25% -0.76%
75th Percentile - £58,119 £64,375
90th Percentile £73,100 £61,875 £75,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All General Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 931 565 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 55.78% 58.31% 45.53%
Number of salaries quoted 695 327 456
10th Percentile £25,100 £27,614 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,274 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,625 £63,813
90th Percentile £71,991 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the North East

Games
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Games in the North East

Games
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for Games in the North East

Games
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +21 40 £60,000 +2.13% 4
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (17.50%) Amazon S3
3 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (17.50%) Serverless
4 5 (12.50%) SaaS
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (7.50%) dbt
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) MySQL
1 7 (17.50%) Redis
2 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.00%) Couchbase
3 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.00%) Power BI
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Developer
2 21 (52.50%) .NET Developer
2 21 (52.50%) C# Developer
3 20 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 18 (45.00%) Games Developer
5 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
6 7 (17.50%) Lead
7 4 (10.00%) SAP Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (10.00%) Team Leader
8 3 (7.50%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead C# Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Software Delivery Manager
9 2 (5.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) .NET
2 22 (55.00%) RESTful
3 18 (45.00%) AngularJS
3 18 (45.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (7.50%) Node.js
5 3 (7.50%) Vue
6 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.50%) HTML
6 1 (2.50%) HTML5
6 1 (2.50%) LINQ
6 1 (2.50%) Middleware
6 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Client/Server
2 9 (22.50%) Online Games
3 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Full Stack Development
1 19 (47.50%) Multithreading
2 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
4 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 7 (17.50%) Coaching
4 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
4 7 (17.50%) ETL
5 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.00%) ERP
6 4 (10.00%) MVC
6 4 (10.00%) OOP
6 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 4 (10.00%) Product Backlog
6 4 (10.00%) Scrum
6 4 (10.00%) SDLC
7 3 (7.50%) Data Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
7 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) C#
2 20 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (35.00%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) ABAP
4 4 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (2.50%) Xamarin