Games Jobs in Scotland

Gaming
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 186 36
Rank change year-on-year +103 -150 +72
Permanent jobs citing Games 96 81 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.14% 1.18% 6.67%
As % of the General category 4.47% 1.76% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 56 48 21
10th Percentile - £28,175 £25,750
25th Percentile - £47,188 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,929 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.71% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £69,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,500 £75,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £25,087 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -54.39% -12.00% -3.85%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,149 4,614 3,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.21% 67.04% 74.73%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,619 1,531
10th Percentile £25,020 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,167 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Scotland

Games
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Games in Scotland

Games
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in Scotland

Games
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Midlothian - 34 £26,929 - 4
Edinburgh +16 29 £52,500 - 132
East Lothian - 10 £26,929 -
Dundee - 9 £26,968 - 20
Glasgow +111 8 £55,000 -21.43% 76
West Lothian - 6 £26,929 - 4
Games
UK

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.46%) AWS
2 10 (10.42%) GCP
3 5 (5.21%) Azure
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) MySQL
2 2 (2.08%) DB2
2 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.04%) Big Data
3 1 (1.04%) GIS
3 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Git
General
1 66 (68.75%) Retail
1 66 (68.75%) Telecoms
2 9 (9.38%) Banking
2 9 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (83.33%) Senior
2 11 (11.46%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) Customer Service Advisor
5 6 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (5.21%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) PHP Developer
7 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.17%) Senior PHP Developer
8 2 (2.08%) Java Developer
9 1 (1.04%) Analyst
9 1 (1.04%) Manual Tester
9 1 (1.04%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (1.04%) Principal Software Engineer
9 1 (1.04%) Scrum Master
9 1 (1.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) Spring
1 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.21%) CSS
2 5 (5.21%) HTML
2 5 (5.21%) Kafka
2 5 (5.21%) LAMP
2 5 (5.21%) Laravel
3 4 (4.17%) React
4 1 (1.04%) Playwright
4 1 (1.04%) WebGL
4 1 (1.04%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (79.17%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (76.04%) Mentoring
3 12 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 10 (10.42%) Agile
5 9 (9.38%) Customer Service
5 9 (9.38%) E-Commerce
6 6 (6.25%) DevOps
7 5 (5.21%) MVC
7 5 (5.21%) OOP
7 5 (5.21%) Web Development
8 4 (4.17%) TDD
9 3 (3.13%) Clean Code
9 3 (3.13%) Coaching
9 3 (3.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (3.13%) SOLID
9 3 (3.13%) Test Automation
9 3 (3.13%) Unit Testing
10 2 (2.08%) Collaborative Culture
10 2 (2.08%) Mathematics
10 2 (2.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) PHP
2 7 (7.29%) Java
3 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.08%) Python
6 1 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.04%) Degree
1 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
1 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (78.13%) BT
2 1 (1.04%) Twitter