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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 55 183
Rank change year-on-year -163 +128 -14
Permanent jobs citing Games 933 3,295 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 5.33% 2.11%
As % of the General category 2.32% 7.69% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 713 406 929
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,613 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -18.81% +37.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,269 42,823 42,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.49% 69.30% 59.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,334 19,314 24,106
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,216
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £82,500 £78,575
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 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 -133 258 £52,500 +5.00% 134
South West -5 191 £43,500 -20.91% 36
South East -82 144 £50,000 -23.08% 128
Midlands -160 132 £52,500 +20.00% 60
North West -151 125 £45,000 -14.29% 87
West Midlands -123 98 £53,750 +31.10% 37
East of England -97 84 £60,000 -25.00% 48
Scotland -169 76 £52,500 +5.00% 17
North East +51 69 £64,080 +34.91% 17
Yorkshire -100 64 £50,000 +5.26% 31
Wales +5 48 £50,000 - 7
East Midlands -111 34 £52,500 +7.99% 24
Northern Ireland +18 1 - - 1
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 98 (10.50%) Confluence
2 29 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.75%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2000
7 5 (0.54%) CMS
7 5 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.54%) WordPress
8 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.32%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) Apache
9 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.21%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.11%) TYPO3
Applications
1 15 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.18%) Maya
4 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.75%) Blender
6 6 (0.64%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.64%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.64%) Sketch
7 4 (0.43%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.43%) MotionBuilder
7 4 (0.43%) Simulink
7 4 (0.43%) Stateflow
7 4 (0.43%) ZBrush
8 3 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.32%) Houdini
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.21%) InDesign
9 2 (0.21%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 162 (17.36%) Azure
2 147 (15.76%) AWS
3 56 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.18%) SaaS
5 26 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (2.79%) Serverless
6 23 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 20 (2.14%) Amazon S3
8 19 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (1.82%) GCP
10 16 (1.71%) dbt
11 15 (1.61%) Figma
12 13 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (1.39%) GitHub
13 12 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.18%) Power Platform
15 8 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (0.86%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
15 8 (0.86%) Cloudflare
16 5 (0.54%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.75%) Firewall
2 25 (2.68%) Wireless
3 13 (1.39%) Internet
4 12 (1.29%) Network Security
5 11 (1.18%) VPN
6 8 (0.86%) Broadband
7 7 (0.75%) LAN
8 6 (0.64%) WAN
8 6 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.32%) VSAN
10 2 (0.21%) 4G
10 2 (0.21%) FTP
10 2 (0.21%) HTTP
10 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.21%) SMTP
10 2 (0.21%) Sourcefire
10 2 (0.21%) VoIP
10 2 (0.21%) xDSL
11 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 41 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (4.18%) MySQL
4 22 (2.36%) Redis
5 21 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (1.61%) MongoDB
8 13 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.18%) Power BI
11 10 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.96%) Couchbase
12 9 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.86%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.75%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.43%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 145 (15.54%) Git
2 113 (12.11%) JIRA
3 91 (9.75%) Visual Studio
4 89 (9.54%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.32%) Sourcetree
6 22 (2.36%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.71%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.29%) Selenium
9 11 (1.18%) Subversion
10 7 (0.75%) gulp
11 6 (0.64%) PostCSS
11 6 (0.64%) rollup.js
11 6 (0.64%) Vite
11 6 (0.64%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.43%) JUnit
12 4 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
14 2 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.21%) WiX
General
1 235 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 154 (16.51%) Finance
3 109 (11.68%) Presentation Skills
4 88 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (5.57%) Marketing
6 46 (4.93%) Law
7 44 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (4.50%) Manufacturing
9 40 (4.29%) Banking
10 25 (2.68%) Financial Institution
10 25 (2.68%) Retail
11 24 (2.57%) Electronics
12 20 (2.14%) Aerospace
12 20 (2.14%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.93%) Legal
14 16 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.61%) Military
16 14 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.50%) Public Sector
17 13 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 305 (32.69%) Developer
2 168 (18.01%) Senior
3 141 (15.11%) Games Developer
4 91 (9.75%) 3D Developer
5 88 (9.43%) Unity 3D Developer
6 74 (7.93%) .NET Developer
7 66 (7.07%) Project Manager
8 64 (6.86%) Senior Developer
9 61 (6.54%) Lead
10 60 (6.43%) Analyst
11 53 (5.68%) C# Developer
12 49 (5.25%) Software Engineer
13 38 (4.07%) Architect
13 38 (4.07%) C# .NET Developer
14 37 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
15 32 (3.43%) Data Engineer
16 31 (3.32%) Senior Games Developer
17 30 (3.22%) Full Stack Developer
18 27 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
19 25 (2.68%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (13.40%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 113 (12.11%) .NET
3 78 (8.36%) HTML
4 71 (7.61%) .NET Core
5 67 (7.18%) AngularJS
6 60 (6.43%) React
7 57 (6.11%) ASP.NET
8 55 (5.89%) ASP.NET MVC
9 50 (5.36%) CSS
9 50 (5.36%) Vue
10 45 (4.82%) Node.js
10 45 (4.82%) RESTful
11 42 (4.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 39 (4.18%) HTML5
13 37 (3.97%) Entity Framework
14 34 (3.64%) Unreal Engine
15 28 (3.00%) Laravel
16 27 (2.89%) .NET Framework
17 22 (2.36%) REST
18 21 (2.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 110 (11.79%) Virtual Reality
2 57 (6.11%) Client/Server
3 46 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (3.75%) Online Games
5 28 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.89%) Animation
7 23 (2.47%) Social Media
8 22 (2.36%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.14%) Cloud Native
9 20 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (1.82%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (1.71%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.61%) Driving Licence
13 12 (1.29%) IoT
14 11 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.96%) Hedge funds
16 9 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 88 (9.43%) Windows
2 27 (2.89%) Linux
3 21 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.39%) Unix
5 12 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.18%) Android
6 11 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.07%) VMS
7 10 (1.07%) Windows Vista
8 9 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.21%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (20.15%) Agile
2 178 (19.08%) Software Engineering
3 139 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
4 133 (14.26%) Scrum
5 123 (13.18%) Use Case
6 121 (12.97%) DevOps
7 112 (12.00%) Design Patterns
8 105 (11.25%) Full Stack Development
9 103 (11.04%) Computer Science
10 102 (10.93%) Mathematics
11 89 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
12 88 (9.43%) UML
13 85 (9.11%) Project Management
14 70 (7.50%) Mentoring
15 68 (7.29%) Decision-Making
15 68 (7.29%) MVC
16 65 (6.97%) Analytics
17 61 (6.54%) Actionable Insight
18 59 (6.32%) Coaching
18 59 (6.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 250 (26.80%) C#
2 168 (18.01%) JavaScript
3 145 (15.54%) SQL
4 126 (13.50%) Python
5 75 (8.04%) TypeScript
6 47 (5.04%) PHP
7 42 (4.50%) Java
8 39 (4.18%) C++
9 25 (2.68%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 14 (1.50%) RPG
12 9 (0.96%) Rust
13 8 (0.86%) C
14 7 (0.75%) Go
15 5 (0.54%) Groovy
15 5 (0.54%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.32%) Bash
16 3 (0.32%) VB
17 2 (0.21%) Perl
17 2 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 273 (29.26%) Degree
2 199 (21.33%) Security Cleared
3 135 (14.47%) SC Cleared
4 100 (10.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.47%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.39%) CCNA
7 13 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.07%) CCNA CyberOps
8 10 (1.07%) CCNP
8 10 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.07%) MCP
8 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.86%) A+ Certification
10 7 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.64%) HNC
11 6 (0.64%) ISEB
11 6 (0.64%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.39%) QA
2 37 (3.97%) GDPR
3 29 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 17 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.29%) ISO 9001
6 10 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.32%) SLA
10 2 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) COSHH
11 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
11 1 (0.11%) NIST
11 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (6.00%) Docker
2 33 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 24 (2.57%) Terraform
2 22 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.29%) SCCM
4 10 (1.07%) WSUS
5 8 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.43%) Ansible
7 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 234 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.25%) Cisco
3 18 (1.93%) Apple
3 18 (1.93%) IFS
4 16 (1.71%) Google
4 16 (1.71%) Workday
5 14 (1.50%) Oracle
5 14 (1.50%) VMware
6 11 (1.18%) Adobe
7 10 (1.07%) Dell
7 10 (1.07%) Draytek
8 9 (0.96%) F5
9 7 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.64%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) Aruba
11 5 (0.54%) EqualLogic
11 5 (0.54%) NetApp
11 5 (0.54%) SonicWALL
11 5 (0.54%) Sophos
11 5 (0.54%) WatchGuard