Games Jobs in the Thames Valley

Gaming
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 181 107
Rank change year-on-year +26 -74 +115
Permanent jobs citing Games 21 69 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.62% 0.98% 2.70%
As % of the General category 0.79% 1.88% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 25
10th Percentile £37,400 £30,000 £50,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £36,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £44,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +56.94% -34.07% +35.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £50,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% -14.29%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,669 3,680 3,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.52% 52.42% 64.49%
Number of salaries quoted 758 2,210 1,677
10th Percentile £26,425 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -6.58%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,875 £80,000
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Games in the Thames Valley

Games
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Games in the Thames Valley

Games
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in the Thames Valley

Games
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Oxfordshire 0 8 £70,000 +55.56% 76
Berkshire +39 7 £56,500 +162.79% 255
Buckinghamshire +21 6 £57,500 +43.75% 88
Games
South East

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (19.05%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.76%) InDesign
1 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Cloudflare
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Dropbox
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (42.86%) MySQL
3 6 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (14.29%) Power BI
5 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) NUnit
2 5 (23.81%) TeamCity
3 4 (19.05%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.76%) gulp
4 1 (4.76%) PostCSS
4 1 (4.76%) rollup.js
4 1 (4.76%) Subversion
4 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (4.76%) Electronics
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Senior
3 7 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 4 (19.05%) .NET Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Administrator
6 2 (9.52%) DBA
6 2 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (9.52%) PHP Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior DBA
7 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Games Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Graphic Designer
7 1 (4.76%) Marketing Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) HTML
2 8 (38.10%) CSS
3 7 (33.33%) HTML5
4 5 (23.81%) .NET
4 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET
4 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (23.81%) CSS3
4 5 (23.81%) React
4 5 (23.81%) Vue
5 4 (19.05%) Jest
5 4 (19.05%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) CodeIgniter
6 2 (9.52%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (9.52%) Pixi.js
6 2 (9.52%) Symfony
6 2 (9.52%) WebGL
7 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
7 1 (4.76%) Sass
7 1 (4.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Online Games
2 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Animation
4 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Mobile First
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (23.81%) MVC
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Scrum
3 4 (19.05%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (14.29%) API Design
4 3 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 3 (14.29%) Data Governance Strategy
4 3 (14.29%) Data Lineage
4 3 (14.29%) Data Management
4 3 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 3 (14.29%) Data Security
4 3 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
2 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 6 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
4 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Rollbar
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) BT
4 1 (4.76%) SAP