iGaming
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iGaming in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited iGaming 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 679 883 916
Rank change year-on-year +204 +33 +215
Permanent jobs citing iGaming 30 29 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.028% 0.047%
As % of the General category 0.077% 0.048% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 22 23 34
10th Percentile £26,225 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -8.33% +79.10%
75th Percentile £63,125 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -38.46% +94.03%

All General Skills
UK

iGaming 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 38,878 60,543 66,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.17% 58.62% 67.97%
Number of salaries quoted 18,041 40,070 35,832
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

iGaming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing iGaming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iGaming in the UK

iGaming
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing iGaming.

Salary trend for iGaming in the UK

iGaming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing iGaming over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for iGaming in the UK

iGaming
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iGaming within the UK 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
Work from Home +130 19 £47,500 -9.95% 290
England +148 18 £55,000 - 649
London +107 12 £62,500 +4.17% 85
UK excluding London +189 4 £45,000 +12.50% 660
Midlands +83 3 £45,000 +12.50% 123
West Midlands +57 2 £46,500 +16.25% 66
East Midlands +44 1 £45,000 +12.50% 48
Wales - 1 - - 20

iGaming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) OpenStack
1 2 (6.67%) WordPress
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Anthos
2 2 (6.67%) Google Analytics
2 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) Grunt
2 4 (13.33%) gulp
2 4 (13.33%) webpack
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.67%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) Maven
5 1 (3.33%) Postman
5 1 (3.33%) Selenium
5 1 (3.33%) Subversion
5 1 (3.33%) TestRail
5 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (93.33%) Games
2 21 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Publishing
4 6 (20.00%) Retail
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
6 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Finance
7 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (13.33%) Games Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Junior
5 4 (13.33%) Junior Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (13.33%) Junior JavaScript Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Graduate
6 3 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Graduate Front-End Developer (Graduate Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (10.00%) Graduate JavaScript Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) HTML
2 14 (46.67%) JSON
2 14 (46.67%) Node.js
2 14 (46.67%) Pixi.js
3 10 (33.33%) CSS
3 10 (33.33%) HTML5
4 4 (13.33%) Babylonjs
4 4 (13.33%) REST
4 4 (13.33%) RxJS
4 4 (13.33%) WebGL
4 4 (13.33%) XML
5 2 (6.67%) WebSockets
6 1 (3.33%) .NET
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) React
6 1 (3.33%) Spring
6 1 (3.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (3.33%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) Mobile Games
2 6 (20.00%) Sports Betting
3 5 (16.67%) Online Games
4 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (6.67%) Blog
6 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (3.33%) Animation
7 1 (3.33%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Game Development
3 10 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Project Management
7 6 (20.00%) Architectural Design
7 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
8 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 5 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 5 (16.67%) OOP
8 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 4 (13.33%) Kanban
9 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 4 (13.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) C++
3 2 (6.67%) PHP
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Argo
2 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) Istio
3 1 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Ahrefs
2 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (6.67%) Screaming Frog
2 2 (6.67%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Adobe
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft