Games Jobs in the North East

Gaming
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 102 107
Rank change year-on-year +48 +5 -41
Permanent jobs citing Games 68 14 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 3.73% 1.09% 0.88%
As % of the General category 6.29% 1.74% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 64 8 13
10th Percentile £42,463 £38,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,080 £48,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.45% +8.33% -30.77%
75th Percentile £73,250 £54,369 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,625 £58,858 £71,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
North East

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 East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,081 804 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 59.30% 62.33% 43.86%
Number of salaries quoted 903 348 387
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,534 £33,688 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,666 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -0.74% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,825 £69,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the North East

Games
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in the North East.

Salary trend for Games in the North East

Games
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the North East over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the North East

Games
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Tyne and Wear +51 65 £64,080 +22.06% 13
Durham +1 3 £40,000 -20.00% 1
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (19.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (57.35%) AWS
2 21 (30.88%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (30.88%) Serverless
3 17 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 16 (23.53%) SaaS
5 15 (22.06%) Azure
6 13 (19.12%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (19.12%) dbt
7 11 (16.18%) GitHub
8 8 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (11.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 5 (7.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (35.29%) MySQL
2 21 (30.88%) Redis
3 13 (19.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (11.76%) Couchbase
4 8 (11.76%) DynamoDB
5 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.88%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.47%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) TeamCity
2 3 (4.41%) Git
General
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (1.47%) Esports
4 1 (1.47%) Legal
4 1 (1.47%) Military
4 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (42.65%) Developer
2 24 (35.29%) C# Developer
3 23 (33.82%) .NET Developer
4 22 (32.35%) C# .NET Developer
5 20 (29.41%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (26.47%) Lead
7 14 (20.59%) Data Engineer
7 14 (20.59%) Games Developer
8 13 (19.12%) AWS Data Engineer
9 11 (16.18%) Senior
9 11 (16.18%) Team Leader
10 10 (14.71%) Software Engineer
11 9 (13.24%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (13.24%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (11.76%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (11.76%) Lead C# Developer
12 8 (11.76%) Lead Developer
13 7 (10.29%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (10.29%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (10.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (48.53%) .NET
2 27 (39.71%) RESTful
3 18 (26.47%) ASP.NET
3 18 (26.47%) ASP.NET MVC
4 16 (23.53%) .NET Core
5 14 (20.59%) AngularJS
5 14 (20.59%) ASP.NET Web API
5 14 (20.59%) Node.js
6 13 (19.12%) Vue
7 8 (11.76%) HTML
8 5 (7.35%) HTML5
8 5 (7.35%) LINQ
9 4 (5.88%) CSS
10 3 (4.41%) jQuery
10 3 (4.41%) Laravel
11 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (1.47%) Next.js
12 1 (1.47%) React
12 1 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (61.76%) Client/Server
2 34 (50.00%) Online Games
3 12 (17.65%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) Agile
2 22 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
4 18 (26.47%) Mentoring
4 18 (26.47%) MVC
5 14 (20.59%) Data Integration
5 14 (20.59%) Data Modelling
5 14 (20.59%) ETL
5 14 (20.59%) Multithreading
6 13 (19.12%) Data Extraction
6 13 (19.12%) Data Ingestion
6 13 (19.12%) Data Transformation
6 13 (19.12%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (19.12%) Software Engineering
7 11 (16.18%) Coaching
7 11 (16.18%) Computer Science
7 11 (16.18%) Design Patterns
7 11 (16.18%) OOP
8 9 (13.24%) Data Architecture
8 9 (13.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) C#
2 35 (51.47%) SQL
3 27 (39.71%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.59%) TypeScript
5 13 (19.12%) Python
6 8 (11.76%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.41%) PHP
9 2 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) HND
2 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) GRC
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Terraform
2 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle