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 advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 34 111
Rank change year-on-year -131 +77 +31
Permanent jobs citing Games 263 1,311 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.52% 7.50% 3.06%
As % of the General category 2.73% 10.66% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 218 130 381
10th Percentile £26,000 £22,500 £36,654
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £77,150 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
North of England

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,632 12,301 10,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.69% 70.34% 58.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,306 5,223 6,150
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -142 128 £45,000 -10.00% 90
North East +51 70 £64,040 +34.82% 13
Yorkshire -104 65 £50,000 -1.96% 42
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 13 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.66%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.14%) Confluence
3 3 (1.14%) WordPress
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
4 2 (0.76%) IIS
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.76%) InDesign
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.38%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (25.10%) AWS
2 49 (18.63%) Azure
3 21 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (7.98%) Serverless
4 18 (6.84%) Amazon S3
5 16 (6.08%) SaaS
6 15 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (4.94%) dbt
8 11 (4.18%) GitHub
9 9 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.04%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 7 (2.66%) Figma
12 5 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.90%) DigitalOcean
12 5 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.14%) Commercetools
13 3 (1.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.66%) Firewall
2 5 (1.90%) Broadband
3 3 (1.14%) Network Security
4 2 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.55%) MySQL
2 31 (11.79%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.98%) Redis
4 18 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.04%) Couchbase
6 8 (3.04%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.66%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.52%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.52%) OLTP
9 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.76%) QlikView
10 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.56%) TeamCity
2 11 (4.18%) Git
3 7 (2.66%) JIRA
4 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.76%) WiX
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) XCTest
General
1 95 (36.12%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.08%) Finance
2 16 (6.08%) Retail
3 14 (5.32%) Manufacturing
4 13 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.56%) Billing
5 12 (4.56%) Legal
6 11 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.42%) Marketing
8 7 (2.66%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.28%) Local Government
10 5 (1.90%) Banking
10 5 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Automotive
12 3 (1.14%) Publishing
13 2 (0.76%) Esports
14 1 (0.38%) iGaming
14 1 (0.38%) Law
14 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (34.60%) Developer
2 41 (15.59%) .NET Developer
3 35 (13.31%) Senior
4 32 (12.17%) Games Developer
5 29 (11.03%) C# Developer
6 27 (10.27%) Lead
7 24 (9.13%) C# .NET Developer
8 22 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (7.60%) Full Stack Developer
10 18 (6.84%) PHP Developer
11 14 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 14 (5.32%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
12 13 (4.94%) Delivery Manager
12 13 (4.94%) Lead Developer
12 13 (4.94%) Team Leader
13 12 (4.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 12 (4.56%) Analyst
13 12 (4.56%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 11 (4.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (22.05%) .NET
2 35 (13.31%) Node.js
3 33 (12.55%) HTML
4 30 (11.41%) AngularJS
5 29 (11.03%) .NET Core
5 29 (11.03%) RESTful
6 28 (10.65%) Vue
7 26 (9.89%) ASP.NET
8 24 (9.13%) ASP.NET MVC
9 23 (8.75%) ASP.NET Web API
10 20 (7.60%) React
11 18 (6.84%) CSS
12 16 (6.08%) .NET Framework
12 16 (6.08%) Entity Framework
13 12 (4.56%) Unreal Engine
14 11 (4.18%) Laravel
15 10 (3.80%) Electron
15 10 (3.80%) JSON
15 10 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.97%) Client/Server
2 34 (12.93%) Online Games
3 13 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.56%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.18%) Social Media
6 10 (3.80%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.04%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.66%) Virtual Reality
9 6 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.90%) Life Science
11 4 (1.52%) Animation
11 4 (1.52%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
13 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.76%) Graphic Design
13 2 (0.76%) iPhone
13 2 (0.76%) Legacy Code
13 2 (0.76%) Replication
14 1 (0.38%) Acoustics
14 1 (0.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.84%) Windows
2 8 (3.04%) Android
2 8 (3.04%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.66%) Linux
4 6 (2.28%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.14%) Unix
6 3 (1.14%) VMS
7 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.19%) Agile
2 46 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (17.11%) Computer Science
4 44 (16.73%) Full Stack Development
5 34 (12.93%) MVC
6 31 (11.79%) Customer Service
7 30 (11.41%) Mentoring
7 30 (11.41%) User Experience
8 29 (11.03%) Coaching
9 26 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (8.75%) Project Management
10 23 (8.75%) Software Engineering
11 21 (7.98%) DevOps
11 21 (7.98%) Scrum
12 20 (7.60%) Mathematics
13 16 (6.08%) Customer Experience
13 16 (6.08%) Multithreading
14 15 (5.70%) Design Patterns
14 15 (5.70%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (5.70%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 76 (28.90%) C#
2 74 (28.14%) JavaScript
3 55 (20.91%) SQL
4 30 (11.41%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.75%) Python
6 22 (8.37%) PHP
7 12 (4.56%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.80%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.14%) C++
10 2 (0.76%) Go
10 2 (0.76%) Java
10 2 (0.76%) VB
10 2 (0.76%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.38%) Bash
11 1 (0.38%) RPG
11 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (24.71%) Degree
2 25 (9.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.94%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.80%) CCNA
4 10 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.04%) CCNA CyberOps
6 8 (3.04%) CCNP
7 6 (2.28%) Security Cleared
8 5 (1.90%) A+ Certification
8 5 (1.90%) MCP
8 5 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.14%) OSCP
9 3 (1.14%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.76%) CEH
10 2 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.76%) MCSE
10 2 (0.76%) SSCP
11 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.66%) QA
3 6 (2.28%) GDPR
4 5 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.14%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (8.75%) Docker
2 8 (3.04%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (7.98%) Terraform
2 6 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.14%) Ansible
4 3 (1.14%) SCCM
4 3 (1.14%) WSUS
5 2 (0.76%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 30 (11.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.80%) Cisco
3 5 (1.90%) Aruba
3 5 (1.90%) Dell
3 5 (1.90%) Freshdesk
3 5 (1.90%) SonicWALL
3 5 (1.90%) Veeam
4 3 (1.14%) Adobe
4 3 (1.14%) Apple
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle
4 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.76%) Citrix
5 2 (0.76%) Instagram
5 2 (0.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.76%) SYSPRO
5 2 (0.76%) Twitter
5 2 (0.76%) VMware
6 1 (0.38%) Cadence
6 1 (0.38%) Google
6 1 (0.38%) YouTube