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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 872 922
Rank change year-on-year +195 +50 +251
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Games 52 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.011% 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.031% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 19 11 30
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £40,625 £82,500 £75,000
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% +40.00%

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 20,501 35,249 43,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.60% 35.32% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,910 23,042 23,101
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,435
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,975 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.95% -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 18 May 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 18 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 +166 44 £30,000 -40.00% 126
England +163 44 £30,000 -60.00% 43
London +150 43 £30,000 -40.00% 26
UK excluding London +173 1 £37,500 -50.00% 20
Midlands +62 1 £37,500 -50.00% 5
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 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.92%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) GitHub
2 15 (28.85%) GCP
3 14 (26.92%) Azure
4 12 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (19.23%) AWS
6 5 (9.62%) SaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.85%) Anthos
8 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.92%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) DNS
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) NoSQL
2 8 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.54%) Tableau
4 5 (9.62%) MySQL
4 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (40.38%) Git
2 12 (23.08%) Gradle
3 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (13.46%) SonarQube
4 6 (11.54%) Maven
5 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 52 (100.00%) Games
2 42 (80.77%) Social Skills
3 15 (28.85%) iGaming
4 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Publishing
5 4 (7.69%) Finance
6 3 (5.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (61.54%) Developer
2 17 (32.69%) Android Developer
3 10 (19.23%) Senior
4 9 (17.31%) JavaScript Developer
4 9 (17.31%) Lead
5 8 (15.38%) Architect
6 7 (13.46%) iOS Android Developer
6 7 (13.46%) iOS Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Lead Android Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Lead Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Lead iOS Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Process Improvement Manager
7 6 (11.54%) Process Manager
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Architect
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 5 (9.62%) Software Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) HTML
1 10 (19.23%) Kafka
1 10 (19.23%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (17.31%) HTML5
2 9 (17.31%) JSON
2 9 (17.31%) Node.js
2 9 (17.31%) Pixi.js
3 7 (13.46%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 6 (11.54%) React
4 6 (11.54%) Spring
5 5 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (9.62%) OpenAPI
5 5 (9.62%) RESTful
6 4 (7.69%) CSS
6 4 (7.69%) REST
7 2 (3.85%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 12 (23.08%) Mobile App
4 10 (19.23%) Educational Technology
5 6 (11.54%) Sports Betting
6 4 (7.69%) CMDB
7 3 (5.77%) Online Games
7 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
7 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
8 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.69%) Android
1 17 (32.69%) Apple iOS
2 12 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (51.92%) B2B
3 25 (48.08%) Agile
4 22 (42.31%) DevOps
5 20 (38.46%) Computer Science
5 20 (38.46%) Game Development
5 20 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 17 (32.69%) Android Development
6 17 (32.69%) Migration
7 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
8 14 (26.92%) Test Automation
8 14 (26.92%) Unit Testing
9 13 (25.00%) API Design
9 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (23.08%) Design Patterns
10 12 (23.08%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10 12 (23.08%) SOLID
10 12 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) Java
2 18 (34.62%) SQL
3 17 (32.69%) Kotlin
3 17 (32.69%) Objective-C
3 17 (32.69%) Swift
4 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 7 (13.46%) Python
6 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (50.00%) Degree
2 20 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.54%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 5 (9.62%) AWS Certification
4 5 (9.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (48.08%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.46%) Argo
3 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (7.69%) SCCM
5 2 (3.85%) Kustomize
5 2 (3.85%) Terraform
6 1 (1.92%) Grafana
6 1 (1.92%) Istio
6 1 (1.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Google
2 12 (23.08%) New Relic
3 6 (11.54%) SAP
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.85%) VMware