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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 762 692
Rank change year-on-year +104 -70 +20
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 18 34 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.044% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.089% 0.14% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 73
10th Percentile £37,950 £61,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £96,875 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £109,750 £119,500 £117,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £87,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +84.21% -5.00%

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 20,297 25,121 24,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.04% 32.16% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,195 13,124 17,790
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,116 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £104,800 £108,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%

Sports Betting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sports Betting 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 10 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 18 September 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 +91 16 £70,000 -12.50% 32
London +47 10 £92,500 +23.33% 23
Work from Home +80 9 £70,000 -6.67% 18
UK excluding London +117 8 £62,500 -28.57% 20
South East - 4 £70,000 - 13
Wales - 2 - -
North of England +21 1 £50,000 -37.50% 1
North West +10 1 £50,000 -13.04%
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 2

Sports Betting
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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Marketing
3 5 (27.78%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Games
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Esports
5 1 (5.56%) iGaming
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) SEO Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Scientist
4 2 (11.11%) Qualitative Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Quantitative Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
1 3 (16.67%) Sequelize
1 3 (16.67%) TypeORM
2 2 (11.11%) PyMC3
2 2 (11.11%) scikit-learn
2 2 (11.11%) Statsmodels
2 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 2 (11.11%) XGBoost
3 1 (5.56%) ADO
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (27.78%) Analytics
2 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Mathematics
3 4 (22.22%) Data Science
3 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (16.67%) Product Vision
4 3 (16.67%) SEO
4 3 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
4 3 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 3 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) R
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Ahrefs
2 1 (5.56%) Google