Games Jobs in Oxfordshire

Gaming
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 63 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 -6
Permanent jobs citing Games 9 50 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.30% 2.73% 1.07%
As % of the General category 1.79% 4.97% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 9
10th Percentile £58,500 £35,775 £42,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £39,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £46,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -33.93% +40.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £65,500 -
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% -14.29%

All General Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 503 1,007 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 72.79% 54.97% 62.58%
Number of salaries quoted 166 736 378
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £34,750 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,293 £49,738
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -6.93% -2.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Oxfordshire

Games
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Games in Oxfordshire

Games
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in Oxfordshire

Games
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Oxford +30 6 £70,000 +51.35% 43
Games
South East

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) NUnit
2 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
3 3 (33.33%) Jasmine
4 1 (11.11%) gulp
4 1 (11.11%) PostCSS
4 1 (11.11%) rollup.js
4 1 (11.11%) Subversion
4 1 (11.11%) Vite
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
2 7 (77.78%) Developer
3 6 (66.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Administrator
5 2 (22.22%) DBA
5 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Senior DBA
6 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Games Developer
6 1 (11.11%) HTML Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) HTML
1 6 (66.67%) HTML5
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) .NET
3 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (44.44%) CSS3
3 4 (44.44%) React
3 4 (44.44%) Vue
4 3 (33.33%) Jest
4 3 (33.33%) RESTful
5 2 (22.22%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (22.22%) Pixi.js
5 2 (22.22%) WebGL
6 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
6 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
6 1 (11.11%) Sass
6 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Online Games
2 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Animation
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Mobile First
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (44.44%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) API Design
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
4 2 (22.22%) Physics
4 2 (22.22%) Statistics
5 1 (11.11%) Game Development
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) C#
4 3 (33.33%) Bash
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Rollbar
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle