Game Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

Games Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Game Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Game Development over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 744 735
Rank change year-on-year +170 -9 +84
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 6 31 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.042% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.051% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 17
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,700 £37,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,235 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -21.46% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £73,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £30,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% -12.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Game Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
North of England +38 5 £50,000 +3.91% 132
North West +2 5 £50,000 +21.26% 60
Midlands +54 1 £33,000 -37.14% 112
West Midlands +52 1 £33,000 -56.00% 63
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 2 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) iGaming
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Games Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) Games Developer
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) Junior JavaScript Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematician
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) Pixi.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Games
2 1 (16.67%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) CentOS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Tech Ops
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematical Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk