Game Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

Games Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Game Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Game Development over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 749 807
Rank change year-on-year +31 +58 -183
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 31 22 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.035% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.037% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 24 19 29
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,235 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -3.85% +36.84%
75th Percentile £55,625 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £86,500 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Game Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,113 59,506 66,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.56% 95.62% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,079 30,442 41,567
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Game Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Game Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Game Development in the UK excluding London

Game Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Game Development in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Game Development in the UK excluding London

Game Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Game Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Game Development in the UK excluding London

Game Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Game Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
North of England +55 11 £41,235 -16.70% 10
North West +17 11 £41,235 -12.27% 7
South West -7 8 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Midlands +10 7 £52,500 - 2
West Midlands +35 5 £75,000 - 1
South East +14 4 £35,000 -54.84% 18
East Midlands - 2 £52,500 - 1
Wales - 1 £37,500 -
Game Development
UK

Game Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (16.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Maya
1 4 (12.90%) MotionBuilder
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.23%) Couchbase
1 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 31 (100.00%) Games
2 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Manufacturing
4 7 (22.58%) Aviation
4 7 (22.58%) Law
4 7 (22.58%) Military
5 3 (9.68%) Finance
6 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Games Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Product Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Programmer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) C# Developer
5 3 (9.68%) C# Programmer
5 3 (9.68%) Head of Production
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Development Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Games Producer
7 1 (3.23%) QA Tester
7 1 (3.23%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (58.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 11 (35.48%) Unreal Engine
3 7 (22.58%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) CSS
4 2 (6.45%) HTML
4 2 (6.45%) Laravel
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) Vue
5 1 (3.23%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Virtual Reality
2 7 (22.58%) Oculus
3 5 (16.13%) Animation
4 4 (12.90%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (12.90%) Mobile Games
4 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
5 3 (9.68%) Client/Server
5 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Computer Science
2 7 (22.58%) Clean Code
2 7 (22.58%) Eye Tracking
2 7 (22.58%) SOLID
3 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
3 6 (19.35%) Project Delivery
4 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (12.90%) CAD
4 4 (12.90%) Data Science
4 4 (12.90%) Digital Twin
4 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
4 4 (12.90%) Project Management
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
4 4 (12.90%) Visual Effects
4 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
5 3 (9.68%) Content Development
5 3 (9.68%) Issue Tracking
5 3 (9.68%) Project Roadmap
5 3 (9.68%) Software Delivery
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) C#
2 3 (9.68%) C
3 2 (6.45%) C++
3 2 (6.45%) PHP
3 2 (6.45%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Atlassian
1 4 (12.90%) Autodesk