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 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 192 103 82
Rank change year-on-year -89 -21 +53
Permanent jobs citing Games 188 423 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.15% 3.26% 3.84%
As % of the General category 2.15% 4.85% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 152 95 416
10th Percentile £24,196 £31,751 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £63,125 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 8,726 8,726 11,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 53.53% 67.23% 61.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,690 4,817 6,621
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,137 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +5.00% +9.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £81,250
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 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 26 July 2024.

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 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
North West -102 98 £47,500 -9.52% 28
Yorkshire -36 50 £50,000 -24.53% 21
North East +23 40 £60,000 +15.69% 7
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 9 (4.79%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) CMS
3 2 (1.06%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.06%) InDesign
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.06%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.34%) Azure
2 33 (17.55%) AWS
3 17 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.72%) Serverless
7 5 (2.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 5 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.66%) SaaS
8 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 4 (2.13%) GitHub
8 4 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.60%) dbt
10 2 (1.06%) Commercetools
10 2 (1.06%) Figma
10 2 (1.06%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.32%) DNS
1 10 (5.32%) LAN
1 10 (5.32%) WAN
2 5 (2.66%) Broadband
3 4 (2.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.04%) MySQL
3 7 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.72%) Redis
4 5 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.13%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.13%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.13%) Power BI
6 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) OLTP
8 1 (0.53%) QlikView
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Git
2 6 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.66%) JIRA
4 4 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) GitLab
7 1 (0.53%) XCTest
General
1 54 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.83%) Retail
3 18 (9.57%) Billing
4 11 (5.85%) Finance
4 11 (5.85%) Legal
5 8 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.72%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.72%) Marketing
7 6 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.66%) Local Government
9 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.60%) Automotive
11 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Publishing
12 1 (0.53%) Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 86 (45.74%) Developer
2 38 (20.21%) .NET Developer
3 29 (15.43%) Games Developer
4 25 (13.30%) C# Developer
5 21 (11.17%) C# .NET Developer
6 17 (9.04%) Full Stack Developer
6 17 (9.04%) PHP Developer
6 17 (9.04%) Senior
7 14 (7.45%) Lead
8 12 (6.38%) Support Engineer
9 11 (5.85%) Full Stack PHP Developer
10 10 (5.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
10 10 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) IT Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) IT Support
10 10 (5.32%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.32%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (26.06%) .NET
2 32 (17.02%) AngularJS
3 28 (14.89%) HTML
4 22 (11.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 22 (11.70%) RESTful
5 21 (11.17%) Node.js
6 19 (10.11%) React
7 16 (8.51%) .NET Framework
7 16 (8.51%) CSS
8 15 (7.98%) .NET Core
9 14 (7.45%) Entity Framework
9 14 (7.45%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (7.45%) Vue
10 12 (6.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 10 (5.32%) Electron
11 10 (5.32%) JSON
12 9 (4.79%) jQuery
12 9 (4.79%) SignalR
13 8 (4.26%) ASP.NET
13 8 (4.26%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.38%) Client/Server
2 9 (4.79%) Online Games
2 9 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.26%) Blockchain
3 8 (4.26%) IoT
3 8 (4.26%) Web3
4 5 (2.66%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.66%) Social Media
4 5 (2.66%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (2.13%) Animation
5 4 (2.13%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.60%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.06%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.06%) Life Science
8 1 (0.53%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.11%) Windows
2 10 (5.32%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.13%) Android
3 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.13%) Linux
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (20.21%) Full Stack Development
2 35 (18.62%) Computer Science
3 33 (17.55%) Agile
4 30 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (15.43%) Customer Service
6 26 (13.83%) User Experience
7 22 (11.70%) Customer Experience
8 19 (10.11%) Mentoring
8 19 (10.11%) Multithreading
9 18 (9.57%) MVC
9 18 (9.57%) Software Engineering
9 18 (9.57%) Value Proposition
10 17 (9.04%) DevOps
10 17 (9.04%) Scrum
11 16 (8.51%) Coaching
12 15 (7.98%) SEO
13 13 (6.91%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (5.85%) Clean Code
15 11 (5.85%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 60 (31.91%) JavaScript
2 48 (25.53%) C#
3 29 (15.43%) SQL
4 19 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.57%) PHP
6 8 (4.26%) Python
7 5 (2.66%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.13%) ABAP
9 3 (1.60%) C++
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) C
10 1 (0.53%) Java
10 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.53%) RPG
10 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (20.21%) Degree
2 20 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (9.57%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.13%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.13%) MCP
5 4 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.60%) CCNA
6 3 (1.60%) CCNA CyberOps
6 3 (1.60%) CCNP
6 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) GCFA
8 1 (0.53%) GCFE
8 1 (0.53%) GCIH
8 1 (0.53%) OSCP
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
8 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.51%) GDPR
2 6 (3.19%) QA
3 5 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.06%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (9.04%) Docker
2 10 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (3.72%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.66%) Dell
3 4 (2.13%) SAP
4 3 (1.60%) Cisco
5 2 (1.06%) Adobe
5 2 (1.06%) Instagram
5 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.06%) Twitter
6 1 (0.53%) Cadence
6 1 (0.53%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.53%) Xamarin