Mobile Games Jobs

Mobile Game
UK

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 874 944
Rank change year-on-year +250 +70 +219
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Games 60 11 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.011% 0.041%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.031% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 19 11 34
10th Percentile - - £43,625
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £40,625 £82,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £42,500 £112,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -50.00% +7.14% +24.44%

All Generic Skills
UK

Mobile 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Mobile Games
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mobile Games.

Salary trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mobile Games over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Games within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +230 52 £30,000 -60.00% 24
London +148 51 £30,000 -40.00% 19
Work from Home +220 47 £30,000 -40.00% 16
UK excluding London +204 1 £37,500 -50.00% 5
Midlands +58 1 £37,500 -50.00% 2
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 -

Mobile Games
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 (3.33%) nginx
1 2 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) GitHub
2 20 (33.33%) GCP
3 16 (26.67%) Azure
4 14 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (20.00%) AWS
6 6 (10.00%) SaaS
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.33%) Anthos
8 2 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.33%) MinIO
9 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) NoSQL
2 10 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.00%) MySQL
3 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.00%) Tableau
4 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (38.33%) Git
2 14 (23.33%) Gradle
3 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (13.33%) Maven
3 8 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 60 (100.00%) Games
2 45 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (31.67%) iGaming
4 10 (16.67%) Publishing
5 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.00%) Legal
7 5 (8.33%) Finance
8 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (58.33%) Developer
2 17 (28.33%) Android Developer
3 12 (20.00%) Architect
3 12 (20.00%) Senior
4 10 (16.67%) Lead
5 9 (15.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 8 (13.33%) Lead Developer
7 7 (11.67%) iOS Android Developer
7 7 (11.67%) iOS Developer
7 7 (11.67%) Lead Android Developer
7 7 (11.67%) Lead iOS Developer
8 6 (10.00%) Process Improvement Manager
8 6 (10.00%) Process Manager
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Architect
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 6 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) Kafka
1 12 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 11 (18.33%) HTML
3 9 (15.00%) HTML5
3 9 (15.00%) JSON
3 9 (15.00%) Node.js
3 9 (15.00%) Pixi.js
4 8 (13.33%) REST
4 8 (13.33%) Spring
4 8 (13.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 7 (11.67%) React
6 6 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (10.00%) OpenAPI
6 6 (10.00%) RESTful
7 5 (8.33%) CSS
8 4 (6.67%) WebSockets
9 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (30.00%) Cloud Native
3 14 (23.33%) Mobile App
4 10 (16.67%) Educational Technology
4 10 (16.67%) Sports Betting
5 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (10.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (6.67%) CMDB
6 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.67%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.00%) Android
1 18 (30.00%) Apple iOS
2 12 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (51.67%) Agile
3 30 (50.00%) B2B
4 24 (40.00%) DevOps
5 23 (38.33%) Computer Science
5 23 (38.33%) Software Engineering
6 21 (35.00%) Game Development
7 20 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 20 (33.33%) Migration
8 18 (30.00%) Android Development
8 18 (30.00%) API Design
9 15 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 15 (25.00%) Unit Testing
10 14 (23.33%) Architectural Patterns
10 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (23.33%) Design Patterns
10 14 (23.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10 14 (23.33%) Microservices
10 14 (23.33%) Sprint Planning
10 14 (23.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) Java
2 20 (33.33%) SQL
3 18 (30.00%) Kotlin
3 18 (30.00%) Objective-C
3 18 (30.00%) Swift
4 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.33%) Python
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (48.33%) Degree
2 23 (38.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (1.67%) ACCA
4 1 (1.67%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.67%) Argo
3 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.67%) Kustomize
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.67%) SCCM
4 4 (6.67%) Terraform
5 2 (3.33%) Grafana
5 2 (3.33%) Istio
5 2 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Google
2 14 (23.33%) New Relic
3 6 (10.00%) SAP
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.33%) VMware