Games Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Gaming
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 89 83
Rank change year-on-year +51 -6 -24
Permanent jobs citing Games 65 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.93% 0.87% 1.03%
As % of the General category 7.97% 1.41% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 61 2 11
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £58,246 £44,688 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,080 £51,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% +13.89% -30.77%
75th Percentile £73,250 £59,688 £53,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £62,875 £67,500
North East median annual salary £64,080 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +34.91% +5.56% -30.77%

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 816 569 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 61.91% 61.98% 45.09%
Number of salaries quoted 688 260 290
10th Percentile £27,850 £27,450 £27,638
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,438 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,044 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +3.25% +11.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,563 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,772 £81,625 £75,250
North East median annual salary £47,234 £44,666 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.75% -0.74% +5.88%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Games in Tyne and Wear

Games
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Games in Tyne and Wear

Games
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in Tyne and Wear

Games
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Sunderland - 58 £70,000 - 8
Newcastle upon Tyne 0 6 £53,415 +4.22% 4
Games
North East

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 13 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (60.00%) AWS
2 21 (32.31%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (32.31%) Serverless
3 17 (26.15%) Amazon S3
4 16 (24.62%) SaaS
5 15 (23.08%) Azure
6 13 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (20.00%) dbt
7 11 (16.92%) GitHub
8 8 (12.31%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (12.31%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 5 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) MySQL
1 21 (32.31%) Redis
2 13 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (12.31%) Couchbase
3 8 (12.31%) DynamoDB
4 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.15%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.54%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Finance
4 1 (1.54%) Esports
4 1 (1.54%) Legal
4 1 (1.54%) Military
4 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Developer
2 24 (36.92%) C# Developer
3 23 (35.38%) .NET Developer
4 22 (33.85%) C# .NET Developer
5 20 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (27.69%) Lead
7 14 (21.54%) Data Engineer
7 14 (21.54%) Games Developer
8 13 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
9 11 (16.92%) Senior
9 11 (16.92%) Team Leader
10 10 (15.38%) Software Engineer
11 9 (13.85%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (13.85%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (12.31%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (12.31%) Lead C# Developer
12 8 (12.31%) Lead Developer
13 7 (10.77%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (10.77%) Senior C# Software Engineer
13 7 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (50.77%) .NET
2 27 (41.54%) RESTful
3 18 (27.69%) ASP.NET
3 18 (27.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 16 (24.62%) .NET Core
5 14 (21.54%) AngularJS
5 14 (21.54%) ASP.NET Web API
5 14 (21.54%) Node.js
6 13 (20.00%) Vue
7 5 (7.69%) HTML
7 5 (7.69%) HTML5
7 5 (7.69%) LINQ
8 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (1.54%) CSS
9 1 (1.54%) Next.js
9 1 (1.54%) Playwright
9 1 (1.54%) React
9 1 (1.54%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (64.62%) Client/Server
2 34 (52.31%) Online Games
3 12 (18.46%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (30.77%) Agile
2 20 (30.77%) Full Stack Development
3 18 (27.69%) Mentoring
3 18 (27.69%) MVC
4 14 (21.54%) Data Integration
4 14 (21.54%) Data Modelling
4 14 (21.54%) ETL
4 14 (21.54%) Multithreading
5 13 (20.00%) Data Extraction
5 13 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 13 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 13 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 11 (16.92%) Coaching
6 11 (16.92%) Computer Science
6 11 (16.92%) Design Patterns
6 11 (16.92%) OOP
7 9 (13.85%) Data Architecture
7 9 (13.85%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (67.69%) C#
2 35 (53.85%) SQL
3 24 (36.92%) JavaScript
4 14 (21.54%) TypeScript
5 13 (20.00%) Python
6 8 (12.31%) T-SQL
7 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.54%) HND
2 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) GRC
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Terraform
2 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle