Games Jobs in the UK excluding London

Gaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 110 141
Rank change year-on-year -132 +31 +47
Permanent jobs citing Games 682 1,445 1,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.04% 3.00% 2.54%
As % of the General category 1.94% 4.57% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 458 298 947
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,613 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -7.31% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,229 31,627 50,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.97% 65.69% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20,712 17,348 26,425
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,720
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the UK excluding London

Games
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Games in the UK excluding London

Games
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the UK excluding London

Games
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 Games within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -89 188 £52,500 -12.50% 56
Midlands -94 127 £50,000 +53.85% 50
South East -88 114 £50,000 -16.67% 57
West Midlands -47 107 £47,500 +47.29% 28
North West -102 98 £47,500 -9.52% 28
South West -27 92 £50,000 +5.26% 25
Scotland -128 70 £52,500 +7.69% 6
East of England -45 56 £60,000 -14.29% 23
Yorkshire -36 50 £50,000 -24.53% 21
North East +23 40 £60,000 +15.69% 7
Wales -18 35 £57,500 +15.00% 10
East Midlands -87 20 £65,000 +24.13% 22
Northern Ireland +7 3 £70,000 - 4
Games
UK

Games
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 29 (4.25%) Confluence
2 14 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.32%) Apache Solr
3 9 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.88%) CMS
5 5 (0.73%) WordPress
6 4 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2000
7 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.29%) Apache
8 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.32%) Photoshop
4 7 (1.03%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.03%) Maya
4 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.59%) Blender
6 4 (0.59%) ZBrush
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.44%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.29%) Houdini
8 2 (0.29%) InDesign
8 2 (0.29%) Simulink
8 2 (0.29%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.15%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.15%) MotionBuilder
9 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (18.62%) Azure
2 95 (13.93%) AWS
3 51 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (3.52%) SaaS
5 18 (2.64%) Entra ID
6 15 (2.20%) GCP
7 13 (1.91%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (1.61%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.47%) Serverless
11 5 (0.73%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.73%) Cloudflare
11 5 (0.73%) GitHub
12 4 (0.59%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 4 (0.59%) Figma
12 4 (0.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.08%) 3GPP
1 21 (3.08%) 5G
1 21 (3.08%) Radio Access Network
2 19 (2.79%) Wireless
3 16 (2.35%) Firewall
4 14 (2.05%) Internet
4 14 (2.05%) WAN
5 12 (1.76%) DNS
5 12 (1.76%) LAN
6 8 (1.17%) Broadband
7 6 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.73%) SAN
8 5 (0.73%) VPN
9 3 (0.44%) VSAN
10 2 (0.29%) DHCP
10 2 (0.29%) HTTP
11 1 (0.15%) BGP
11 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.15%) SSH
11 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.87%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.93%) MySQL
4 13 (1.91%) Power BI
5 11 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.32%) Redis
8 8 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.88%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.59%) Couchbase
13 3 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.44%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 72 (10.56%) Git
2 44 (6.45%) JIRA
3 29 (4.25%) Bitbucket
4 27 (3.96%) Visual Studio
5 23 (3.37%) Sourcetree
6 18 (2.64%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.61%) gulp
8 10 (1.47%) Selenium
9 9 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.17%) webpack
11 5 (0.73%) JMeter
11 5 (0.73%) Maven
11 5 (0.73%) Vite
11 5 (0.73%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.59%) PostCSS
12 4 (0.59%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.44%) Bugzilla
13 3 (0.44%) GitLab
13 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (20.82%) Social Skills
2 118 (17.30%) Finance
3 77 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (6.60%) Manufacturing
5 44 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 43 (6.30%) Marketing
7 37 (5.43%) Law
8 34 (4.99%) Retail
9 26 (3.81%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.67%) Telecoms
11 24 (3.52%) Banking
12 23 (3.37%) Billing
13 22 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
14 20 (2.93%) Investment Banking
15 19 (2.79%) Aerospace
16 18 (2.64%) Legal
17 17 (2.49%) Electronics
17 17 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (2.20%) Public Sector
19 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (34.02%) Developer
2 113 (16.57%) Senior
3 79 (11.58%) Games Developer
4 61 (8.94%) .NET Developer
5 50 (7.33%) Project Manager
6 46 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 43 (6.30%) C# Developer
7 43 (6.30%) Lead
7 43 (6.30%) Senior Developer
8 40 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 36 (5.28%) C# .NET Developer
10 28 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
11 25 (3.67%) PHP Developer
12 24 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
13 23 (3.37%) 3D Developer
13 23 (3.37%) Hardware Engineer
13 23 (3.37%) Support Engineer
13 23 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
13 23 (3.37%) Unity 3D Developer
14 22 (3.23%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (13.05%) .NET
2 64 (9.38%) AngularJS
3 58 (8.50%) HTML
4 56 (8.21%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 51 (7.48%) React
6 37 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
6 37 (5.43%) RESTful
7 36 (5.28%) CSS
8 32 (4.69%) Node.js
9 31 (4.55%) .NET Core
10 30 (4.40%) Vue
11 27 (3.96%) .NET Framework
12 23 (3.37%) Entity Framework
13 22 (3.23%) ASP.NET
14 20 (2.93%) HTML5
14 20 (2.93%) Laravel
14 20 (2.93%) REST
14 20 (2.93%) web3js
15 17 (2.49%) Pixi.js
15 17 (2.49%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.89%) Virtual Reality
2 34 (4.99%) IoT
3 27 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.67%) Animation
6 21 (3.08%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.93%) Blockchain
7 20 (2.93%) Web3
8 19 (2.79%) Client/Server
9 16 (2.35%) Mobile App
10 15 (2.20%) Operational Technology
11 13 (1.91%) Online Games
12 12 (1.76%) Augmented Reality
13 10 (1.47%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.47%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.17%) Clustering
16 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
16 7 (1.03%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 54 (7.92%) Windows
2 19 (2.79%) Windows 10
3 17 (2.49%) Linux
4 8 (1.17%) Android
5 7 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.29%) Unix
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (19.35%) Agile
2 91 (13.34%) Software Engineering
3 85 (12.46%) Full Stack Development
4 81 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (11.29%) Computer Science
6 66 (9.68%) DevOps
7 65 (9.53%) Mathematics
8 64 (9.38%) Scrum
9 59 (8.65%) Mentoring
10 57 (8.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 54 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 51 (7.48%) Project Management
13 47 (6.89%) Use Case
14 46 (6.74%) Decision-Making
15 41 (6.01%) Coaching
15 41 (6.01%) Customer Service
16 39 (5.72%) Design Patterns
16 39 (5.72%) Multithreading
17 38 (5.57%) Analytics
17 38 (5.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 143 (20.97%) JavaScript
2 125 (18.33%) C#
3 75 (11.00%) SQL
4 65 (9.53%) Python
5 56 (8.21%) TypeScript
6 41 (6.01%) PHP
7 40 (5.87%) C++
8 30 (4.40%) Java
9 12 (1.76%) RPG
10 10 (1.47%) Groovy
10 10 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.17%) Bash
12 7 (1.03%) C
13 5 (0.73%) Rust
13 5 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.59%) ABAP
14 4 (0.59%) Go
14 4 (0.59%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.15%) Scala
15 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 143 (20.97%) Degree
2 80 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 43 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.93%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.03%) A+ Certification
7 7 (1.03%) Chartered Engineer
8 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.88%) MCP
8 6 (0.88%) PMP
9 5 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.59%) CCNA
10 4 (0.59%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (0.59%) CCNP
10 4 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.13%) GDPR
2 31 (4.55%) QA
3 7 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.73%) SLA
5 4 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) COSHH
8 1 (0.15%) GRC
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (5.87%) Docker
2 35 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 17 (2.49%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.47%) Terraform
4 8 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.44%) Ansible
6 2 (0.29%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.15%) Puppet
7 1 (0.15%) QRadar
7 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.79%) IFS
3 17 (2.49%) Workday
4 10 (1.47%) Dell
5 9 (1.32%) Cisco
5 9 (1.32%) Oracle
5 9 (1.32%) VMware
6 5 (0.73%) Draytek
6 5 (0.73%) EqualLogic
6 5 (0.73%) NetApp
6 5 (0.73%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.59%) Adobe
7 4 (0.59%) Google
7 4 (0.59%) SAP
8 2 (0.29%) Datto
8 2 (0.29%) Instagram
8 2 (0.29%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.29%) Sophos
8 2 (0.29%) Twitter