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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 165 33
Rank change year-on-year +79 -132 +73
Permanent jobs citing Games 380 261 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.47% 1.51% 7.74%
As % of the General category 5.00% 2.71% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 188 216 135
10th Percentile - £26,250 £22,500
25th Percentile £23,504 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.22% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £50,625 £67,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £77,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% -16.00% -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 7,603 9,640 12,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.40% 55.79% 71.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,827 7,324 5,221
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%

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 1 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 1 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 +54 181 £23,504 -47.77% 134
North East +42 132 £25,087 -60.85% 38
Yorkshire +78 67 £25,267 -49.47% 57
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 (0.79%) Confluence
2 2 (0.53%) IIS
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Blender
1 4 (1.05%) Maya
2 2 (0.53%) ZBrush
3 1 (0.26%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (8.42%) AWS
2 16 (4.21%) GCP
3 7 (1.84%) Azure
4 3 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (0.79%) Serverless
5 2 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (0.53%) Figma
5 2 (0.53%) Nutanix
5 2 (0.53%) SaaS
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (0.26%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (0.26%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.26%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (0.26%) GitHub
6 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 305 (80.26%) Broadband
2 2 (0.53%) DHCP
2 2 (0.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.42%) MySQL
2 3 (0.79%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.53%) Redis
4 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.26%) DocumentDB
4 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (3.16%) Git
2 5 (1.32%) TestRail
3 4 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.79%) JIRA
4 3 (0.79%) Postman
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 304 (80.00%) Banking
2 17 (4.47%) Finance
2 17 (4.47%) Social Skills
3 14 (3.68%) Billing
4 8 (2.11%) Retail
5 5 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.53%) Dutch Language
7 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.53%) Legal
7 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.53%) Wearables
8 1 (0.26%) Advertising
8 1 (0.26%) iGaming
8 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.26%) Law
8 1 (0.26%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 301 (79.21%) Customer Service Advisor
2 31 (8.16%) Senior
3 16 (4.21%) Developer
4 14 (3.68%) Software Engineer
5 12 (3.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 10 (2.63%) Senior Developer
7 9 (2.37%) PHP Software Engineer
7 9 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (2.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (1.58%) Lead
9 6 (1.58%) PHP Developer
9 6 (1.58%) Senior PHP Developer
10 4 (1.05%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (1.05%) AWS Software Engineer
10 4 (1.05%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (1.05%) Head of Development
10 4 (1.05%) Head of Software Development
10 4 (1.05%) Site Engineer
10 4 (1.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (1.05%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.74%) HTML
2 17 (4.47%) CSS
3 12 (3.16%) React
4 10 (2.63%) LAMP
5 9 (2.37%) Laravel
6 6 (1.58%) .NET
6 6 (1.58%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.58%) jQuery
6 6 (1.58%) Unreal Engine
6 6 (1.58%) Vue
7 5 (1.32%) Node.js
8 4 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.05%) Redux
9 3 (0.79%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 2 (0.53%) PySpark
10 2 (0.53%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.53%) RESTful
10 2 (0.53%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.53%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (1.84%) Product Ownership
1 7 (1.84%) Sports Betting
2 5 (1.32%) Online Games
3 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
4 3 (0.79%) PropTech
5 2 (0.53%) Animation
5 2 (0.53%) Clustering
6 1 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.26%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.26%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.26%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.26%) Interactive Media
6 1 (0.26%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.26%) Social Media
6 1 (0.26%) State Machine
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.11%) Windows
2 7 (1.84%) Linux
3 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.53%) CentOS
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (85.26%) Problem-Solving
2 306 (80.53%) Customer Service
3 22 (5.79%) Software Engineering
4 19 (5.00%) E-Commerce
5 15 (3.95%) Agile
5 15 (3.95%) Mentoring
6 12 (3.16%) OOP
6 12 (3.16%) Test Automation
7 11 (2.89%) SOLID
8 10 (2.63%) Project Delivery
9 8 (2.11%) Clean Code
9 8 (2.11%) TDD
10 7 (1.84%) Front End Development
10 7 (1.84%) Software Testing
11 6 (1.58%) Code Quality
11 6 (1.58%) Regression Testing
11 6 (1.58%) User Experience
12 5 (1.32%) MVC
12 5 (1.32%) Observability
12 5 (1.32%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.79%) PHP
2 19 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (1.84%) SQL
4 6 (1.58%) C#
4 6 (1.58%) Python
5 3 (0.79%) Java
6 2 (0.53%) Bash
6 2 (0.53%) C++
6 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (0.79%) Degree
2 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.74%) QA
2 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (2.11%) Terraform
2 6 (1.58%) Ansible
3 4 (1.05%) Grafana
3 4 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.26%) SCCM
5 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 307 (80.79%) BT
2 3 (0.79%) Twitter
3 2 (0.53%) Proofpoint
3 2 (0.53%) Sun
3 2 (0.53%) VMware
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.26%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle