Games Jobs in Oxford

Gaming
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Oxford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 56 42
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 +1
Permanent jobs citing Games 4 13 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 1.95% 1.95% 1.79%
As % of the General category 3.13% 3.30% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile - £31,500 £41,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £36,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £49,375 £85,625
90th Percentile £87,000 £50,000 £92,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £70,000 £45,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +55.56% -35.71% +73.42%

All General Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 128 394 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 62.44% 59.16% 57.81%
Number of salaries quoted 50 270 140
10th Percentile £36,000 £28,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £55,313 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £79,375 £62,500 £71,563
90th Percentile £95,225 £73,875 £92,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £46,293 £47,500
% change year-on-year +18.81% -2.54% -6.58%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Games in Oxford

Games
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in Oxford.

Salary trend for Games in Oxford

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) gulp
2 1 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) PostCSS
2 1 (25.00%) rollup.js
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Vite
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior DBA
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) HTML Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Pixi.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Online Games
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Animation
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile First
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Rollbar
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft