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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 776 649 721
Rank change year-on-year -127 +72 -56
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 33 18 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.037% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% 0.090% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 26 15 21
10th Percentile £75,000 £38,600 £47,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £48,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile - £108,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £55,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +63.64% -24.14% +52.63%

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 32,034 19,927 22,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.07% 40.61% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 19,610 10,171 11,328
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,239 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -14.29% -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 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 14 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 13 October 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 -122 31 £95,000 +35.71% 56
UK excluding London -129 28 £90,000 +63.64% 28
Work from Home -36 22 £100,000 +42.86% 37
North of England -53 12 £82,500 +65.00% 15
East of England - 10 £100,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 7 £90,000 - 6
North West -29 5 £75,000 +50.00% 9
London -59 4 £100,000 +17.65% 32
Midlands -51 3 £90,000 +100.00% 3
West Midlands -40 2 £90,000 +100.00% 3
South East -46 1 £57,500 -17.86% 1
Wales -73 1 £90,000 -
Scotland - 1 £90,000 - 7
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 -

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 8 (24.24%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Dagster
2 6 (18.18%) dbt
2 6 (18.18%) Prefect
3 5 (15.15%) Azure
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Data Vault
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.06%) 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 15 (45.45%) 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
5 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Senior
2 8 (24.24%) Data Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) JavaScript Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Senior Data Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Category Manager
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Category Manager
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Manager
4 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.06%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (6.06%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (6.06%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) .NET
1 10 (30.30%) .NET Core
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (6.06%) React Native
3 2 (6.06%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.06%) Online Gambling
4 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (24.24%) Data Engineering
2 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
3 7 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
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%) 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 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) C#
2 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
3 8 (24.24%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft