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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 651 652
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 +193
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 23 53 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.095% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 21 23 55
10th Percentile £36,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £76,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.20% +60.53% -30.91%

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 20,761 20,487 19,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 36.87% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10,424 9,854 14,115
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,214 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.01% -1.59% -

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 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 12 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 28 December 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 +47 22 £70,000 -6.67% 82
UK excluding London +51 16 £70,000 -8.20% 58
Work from Home +73 14 £70,000 -3.45% 20
London +37 7 £80,000 +6.67% 29
South East - 6 £62,500 - 17
East of England +28 4 £100,000 +5.26% 12
North of England +10 4 £80,000 +18.52% 10
North West +10 3 £80,000 +18.52% 4
Wales - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 11

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 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.70%) CMS
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.04%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) Mixpanel
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 7 (30.43%) Games
1 7 (30.43%) Marketing
2 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) iGaming
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Developer
1 5 (21.74%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
3 2 (8.70%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Team Leader
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Product Owner
3 2 (8.70%) SEO Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) .NET Core
2 3 (13.04%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) Node.js
2 3 (13.04%) Sequelize
2 3 (13.04%) TypeORM
3 2 (8.70%) ADO
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) AI
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
4 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
4 4 (17.39%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Architectural Design
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Product Vision
6 2 (8.70%) Affiliate Marketing
6 2 (8.70%) Backlog Management
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.70%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.04%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) SnowPro
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Ahrefs
2 1 (4.35%) Amplitude
2 1 (4.35%) Google