Online Games Jobs in the North of England

Online Gaming
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Online Games over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 345 425
Rank change year-on-year +30 +80 +13
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 5 34 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.044% 0.19% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.63% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 32 8
10th Percentile - £57,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £62,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £71,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.06% +36.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £55,938
90th Percentile - £86,250 £67,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Generic Skills
North of England

Online Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,506 5,391 6,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.63% 30.87% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,607 3,991 3,072
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,579 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £71,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in the North of England

Online Games
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Online Games in the North of England

Online Games
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Online Games in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Online Games in the North of England

Online 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 Online Games within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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 - 3 £42,500 - 3
North East +19 2 £65,000 -9.09% 4
Online Games
England

Online 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 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) TestRail
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (60.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Games Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA