Game Development Jobs in the North West

Games Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Game Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Game Development over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 288 286
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +43
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 5 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.064% 0.089% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.11% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile £36,975 - £36,125
25th Percentile £37,313 £39,720 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,235 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -13.19% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,938
90th Percentile - - £59,875
England median annual salary £30,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -45.45% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Game Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,461 8,970 6,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.46% 80.02% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,785 6,539 3,858
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Game Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Game Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Game Development in the North West

Game Development
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Game Development in the North West.

Salary trend for Game Development in the North West

Game Development
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Game Development in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Game Development in the North West

Game Development
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Game Development within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Manchester +69 4 £50,000 - 12
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
Game Development
England

Game Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (40.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
General
1 5 (100.00%) Games
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Games Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Games Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mathematician
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) CentOS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Tech Ops
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk