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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 697 673
Rank change year-on-year +46 -24 +86
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 17 48 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.070% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.088% 0.22% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 63
10th Percentile £38,600 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £59,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £93,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% +52.63% -15.56%

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 19,274 22,126 21,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.04% 32.49% 39.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,274 10,827 16,197
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £34,234
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +1.85%

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 October 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 27 October 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 +36 15 £70,000 -3.45% 43
UK excluding London +42 9 £55,000 -24.14% 28
London +46 8 £85,000 +21.43% 25
Work from Home +43 7 £70,000 +12.00% 14
South East - 5 £70,000 - 15
Wales - 2 - -
North of England +7 1 £50,000 -20.00% 7
North West 0 1 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 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 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Marketing
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) iGaming
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Lead
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
1 3 (17.65%) SEO Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Qualitative Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Quantitative Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
3 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Node.js
1 3 (17.65%) Sequelize
1 3 (17.65%) TypeORM
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) ADO
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) PyMC3
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) Statsmodels
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Machine Learning
2 7 (41.18%) AI
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (23.53%) Mathematics
6 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
6 3 (17.65%) Data Science
6 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 3 (17.65%) ETL
6 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Product Vision
6 3 (17.65%) SEO
7 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Mathematical Modelling
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) C++
5 2 (11.76%) Java
6 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SnowPro
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Ahrefs
2 1 (5.88%) Google