Sports Betting Job Trends

Sports Betting
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Sports Betting in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Sports Betting over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 775 650 740
Rank change year-on-year -125 +90 -70
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 33 18 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.036% 0.047%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.089% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 26 14 17
10th Percentile - £37,950 £58,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £48,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £96,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,750 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +60.00% -21.88% +68.42%

All Generic Skills
UK

Sports Betting 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 31,158 20,315 24,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.51% 40.94% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19,298 10,214 12,392
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -12.38% -4.55%

Sports Betting
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Sports Betting relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Sports Betting job vacancy trend in the UK

Sports Betting
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sports Betting.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sports Betting

Sports Betting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sports Betting over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sports Betting within the UK over the 6 months to 27 September 2026. 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 -98 31 £100,000 +42.86% 80
UK excluding London -100 29 £100,000 +60.00% 40
Work from Home -24 22 £100,000 +42.86% 39
North of England -44 11 £90,000 +80.00% 22
East of England - 11 £100,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 7 £90,000 - 7
Midlands -49 4 £90,000 +100.00% 2
London -63 4 £100,000 +8.11% 51
North West -25 3 £90,000 +80.00% 14
West Midlands -39 3 £90,000 +100.00% 2
South East -51 1 £57,500 -17.86% 3
Wales -72 1 £90,000 -
Scotland - 1 £90,000 - 10
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 -
North East - 1 £100,000 - 1

Sports Betting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Dagster
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 6 (18.18%) dbt
4 6 (18.18%) Prefect
5 5 (15.15%) Azure
5 5 (15.15%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Data Vault
2 5 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (15.15%) BigQuery
2 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
General
1 13 (39.39%) Games
2 8 (24.24%) iGaming
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) Senior
2 11 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 9 (27.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 9 (27.27%) JavaScript Engineer
4 8 (24.24%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (24.24%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) Category Manager
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Category Manager
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Manager
5 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) .NET
1 11 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Pulumi
4 2 (6.06%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (6.06%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Online Gambling
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 11 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
3 7 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (18.18%) Benchmarking
4 6 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 6 (18.18%) Clean Code
4 6 (18.18%) Contract Management
4 6 (18.18%) Kimball Methodology
4 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 6 (18.18%) Performance Management
4 6 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 6 (18.18%) Product Thinking
4 6 (18.18%) Project Management
4 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 6 (18.18%) Spend Analysis
4 6 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (15.15%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (15.15%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) C#
2 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Go
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft