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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 613 779
Rank change year-on-year -34 +166 +106
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 35 43 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.098% 0.053%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.25% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 22 25 44
10th Percentile £53,500 £40,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,813
90th Percentile - £89,000 £122,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +66.67% -27.27% +17.86%

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 22,719 17,028 30,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.89% 38.97% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,516 8,795 21,608
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,000 £76,950
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.00% -9.09%

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 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 9 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 12 March 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 -25 35 £85,000 +36.00% 13
Work from Home +31 28 £90,000 +33.33% 8
London +19 21 £80,000 +23.08% 8
UK excluding London -28 14 £100,000 +66.67% 8
East of England - 9 £100,000 -
North of England -49 3 £80,000 +33.33% 5
North West -25 2 £80,000 +33.33% 2
South East - 2 £52,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

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 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
2 1 (2.86%) Mixpanel
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) git-flow
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) JUnit
General
1 18 (51.43%) Games
2 11 (31.43%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) iGaming
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.71%) Legal
3 2 (5.71%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Electronics
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Developer
1 11 (31.43%) Senior
1 11 (31.43%) Software Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) .NET Developer
3 6 (17.14%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (17.14%) C# Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 5 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) .NET
2 8 (22.86%) .NET Core
3 3 (8.57%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.71%) React
4 2 (5.71%) Spring
5 1 (2.86%) ADO
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.86%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) Jest
5 1 (2.86%) JPA
5 1 (2.86%) Node.js
5 1 (2.86%) Redux
5 1 (2.86%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.71%) Online Games
4 1 (2.86%) IoT
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 11 (31.43%) Analytics
3 11 (31.43%) DevOps
4 9 (25.71%) Market Making
5 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
5 8 (22.86%) Data Munging
5 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (22.86%) Mathematics
5 8 (22.86%) Observability
5 8 (22.86%) Pair Programming
5 8 (22.86%) Physics
5 8 (22.86%) Strategic Planning
6 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
7 5 (14.29%) AI
8 4 (11.43%) ETL
8 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (5.71%) Data Modelling
10 2 (5.71%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) C#
2 13 (37.14%) Java
3 9 (25.71%) Go
3 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.86%) C++
4 8 (22.86%) Rust
5 6 (17.14%) SQL
6 4 (11.43%) Python
7 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
1 8 (22.86%) Master's Degree
1 8 (22.86%) PhD
2 2 (5.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.86%) Amplitude
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft