Games Job Trends in Stirling

Gaming
Scotland > Stirling

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Stirling. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Games 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Stirling 4.35% - 11.11%
As % of the General category 6.67% - 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24,175
25th Percentile - - £24,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £25,750
75th Percentile - - £26,938
90th Percentile - - £27,125
Scotland median annual salary £25,684 £45,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year -42.92% +80.00% -55.56%

All General Skills
Stirling

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 Stirling.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 30 37 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stirling 65.22% 59.68% 72.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 9
10th Percentile £31,125 £30,750 £25,400
25th Percentile - £36,250 £28,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,750 £48,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +14.29% -1.18%
75th Percentile £33,438 - £50,000
90th Percentile £79,900 £48,800 £54,900
Scotland median annual salary £32,976 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -34.05% -4.76% -4.55%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Stirling

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Games relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stirling.

Games job vacancy trend in Stirling

Games
Salary Trend in Stirling

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stirling citing Games.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stirling citing Games

Games
Job Locations in Stirling

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Stirling region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Stirlingshire - 2 - - 5
Games
Scotland

Games
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stirling by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (100.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) PLM
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (100.00%) SOQL
1 2 (100.00%) SOSL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk