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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 724 719
Rank change year-on-year +165 -5 +116
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 14 35 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.049% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14 33 28
10th Percentile £41,625 £57,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,625 £62,000 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.35% +29.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £78,375 £86,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 12,674 24,143 25,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.43% 34.01% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,207 15,233 11,244
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
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 £79,601 £80,000 £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 11 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 11 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 +34 5 £45,000 -37.06% 8
East of England - 5 £75,000 - 2
South East - 4 £67,000 - 17
North West - 3 £42,500 - 3
North East +19 2 £65,000 -9.09% 4
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 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Figma
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (14.29%) OLTP
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) TestRail
3 1 (7.14%) Android Studio
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Xcode
General
1 14 (100.00%) Games
2 4 (28.57%) Marketing
3 3 (21.43%) Retail
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Publishing
5 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Test Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Games Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) PHP Developer
4 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) QA Leader
4 2 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) QA Test Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Senior DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Laravel
1 2 (14.29%) NestJS
1 2 (14.29%) Node.js
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) Symfony
2 1 (7.14%) React Native
2 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) High Availability
2 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) CQRS
4 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Product Requirements
4 2 (14.29%) SOLID
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (14.29%) Test Management
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
5 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) R
4 1 (7.14%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle