Games Jobs in the North of England

Gaming
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 150 33
Rank change year-on-year +69 -117 +71
Permanent jobs citing Games 433 278 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.77% 1.57% 7.75%
As % of the General category 5.30% 2.84% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 203 235 120
10th Percentile - £24,196 £22,500
25th Percentile £23,504 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.39% +7.84% -15.00%
75th Percentile £28,188 £68,125 £75,625
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,650 £85,000
England median annual salary £30,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -45.45% -12.00% -10.71%

All General Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,174 9,790 11,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.23% 55.28% 70.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,670 7,385 5,078
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,751 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £61,938 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the North of England

Games
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Games in the North of England

Games
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in the North of England

Games
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West +21 187 £23,504 -47.77% 462
North East +41 180 £25,087 -60.80% 115
Yorkshire +63 66 £25,015 -49.97% 320
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (0.69%) Confluence
2 2 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) 3ds Max
1 1 (0.23%) Blender
1 1 (0.23%) Maya
1 1 (0.23%) Pro Tools
Cloud Services
1 26 (6.00%) AWS
2 10 (2.31%) GCP
3 5 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (1.15%) Serverless
4 2 (0.46%) Azure
4 2 (0.46%) Figma
4 2 (0.46%) Nutanix
4 2 (0.46%) SaaS
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (0.23%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (0.23%) GitHub
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (0.23%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 366 (84.53%) Broadband
2 2 (0.46%) DHCP
2 2 (0.46%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.31%) MySQL
2 5 (1.15%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.23%) DocumentDB
4 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.23%) Power BI
4 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (1.85%) Git
2 3 (0.69%) JIRA
2 3 (0.69%) TestRail
3 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) Postman
4 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 360 (83.14%) Banking
2 20 (4.62%) Retail
3 16 (3.70%) Billing
4 14 (3.23%) Finance
4 14 (3.23%) Social Skills
5 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.46%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.46%) Dutch Language
6 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.46%) Wearables
7 1 (0.23%) Advertising
7 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.23%) Law
7 1 (0.23%) Legal
7 1 (0.23%) Local Government
7 1 (0.23%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 357 (82.45%) Customer Service Advisor
2 34 (7.85%) Senior
3 16 (3.70%) Developer
4 12 (2.77%) Senior Developer
5 9 (2.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (2.08%) Software Engineer
6 7 (1.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 6 (1.39%) PHP Software Engineer
7 6 (1.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (1.15%) PHP Developer
8 5 (1.15%) Senior PHP Developer
9 4 (0.92%) Java Developer
9 4 (0.92%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (0.92%) Technical Advisor
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Software Engineer
10 3 (0.69%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (0.69%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (0.69%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (0.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.46%) HTML
2 14 (3.23%) CSS
2 14 (3.23%) React
3 8 (1.85%) LAMP
4 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.15%) jQuery
4 5 (1.15%) Laravel
4 5 (1.15%) Node.js
4 5 (1.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 5 (1.15%) Vue
5 4 (0.92%) .NET
5 4 (0.92%) Amazon Corretto
5 4 (0.92%) GraphQL
5 4 (0.92%) Redux
5 4 (0.92%) WebGL
6 2 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.46%) PySpark
6 2 (0.46%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.46%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (1.15%) Online Games
2 5 (1.15%) Sports Betting
3 4 (0.92%) Animation
3 4 (0.92%) e-Learning
3 4 (0.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (0.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.46%) Clustering
5 2 (0.46%) PropTech
6 1 (0.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.23%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.23%) Social Media
6 1 (0.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.15%) Linux
2 4 (0.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.46%) CentOS
3 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (87.53%) Problem-Solving
2 374 (86.37%) Customer Service
3 16 (3.70%) Software Engineering
4 13 (3.00%) E-Commerce
5 12 (2.77%) Agile
5 12 (2.77%) Coaching
6 11 (2.54%) Test Automation
7 9 (2.08%) Clean Code
7 9 (2.08%) OOP
7 9 (2.08%) TDD
8 8 (1.85%) Front End Development
8 8 (1.85%) Mentoring
8 8 (1.85%) SOLID
9 7 (1.62%) User Experience
10 6 (1.39%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (1.39%) DevOps
10 6 (1.39%) Prototyping
10 6 (1.39%) UX Design
11 5 (1.15%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (1.15%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.46%) JavaScript
2 13 (3.00%) PHP
3 6 (1.39%) Java
3 6 (1.39%) TypeScript
4 5 (1.15%) C#
5 4 (0.92%) HLSL
5 4 (0.92%) SQL
6 3 (0.69%) Python
7 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (0.46%) Degree
2 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 5 (1.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (2.08%) Terraform
2 4 (0.92%) Ansible
2 4 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.46%) Grafana
3 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 375 (86.61%) BT
2 4 (0.92%) Sun
3 3 (0.69%) Twitter
4 2 (0.46%) Proofpoint
4 2 (0.46%) VMware
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.23%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle
5 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow