Online Games Jobs in the UK excluding London

Online Gaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Online Games over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 734 732
Rank change year-on-year +172 -2 +100
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 15 37 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.050% 0.040%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.15% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 15 35 23
10th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.40% +25.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £103,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Online Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,443 24,459 24,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.14% 32.80% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 15,283 10,904
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in the UK excluding London

Online Games
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Online Games in the UK excluding London

Online Games
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Online Games in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Online Games in the UK excluding London

Online 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 Online Games within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +92 6 £72,500 +61.11% 92
North of England +24 6 £43,750 -38.81% 57
North West - 4 £42,500 - 27
East of England - 3 £65,000 - 36
North East +15 2 £65,000 -9.09% 10
Online Games
UK

Online 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Cloudflare
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Figma
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MySQL
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) NUnit
1 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
2 3 (20.00%) Jasmine
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) TestRail
4 1 (6.67%) Android Studio
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) Xcode
General
1 15 (100.00%) Games
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) .NET Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Games Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) DBA
5 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior DBA
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) CSS3
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
1 4 (26.67%) HTML5
1 4 (26.67%) React
1 4 (26.67%) Vue
2 3 (20.00%) Jest
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) React Native
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (26.67%) Mobile First
3 4 (26.67%) MVC
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) API Design
4 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
6 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
6 1 (6.67%) ETL
6 1 (6.67%) Regression Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) C
6 1 (6.67%) C++
6 1 (6.67%) R
6 1 (6.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Rollbar
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle