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 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 633 857
Rank change year-on-year -52 +224 -43
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 43 25 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.046% 0.057% 0.034%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.13% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 30 16 34
10th Percentile £76,750 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £44,688 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £70,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -5.08% -1.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +73.91% -30.30% +37.50%

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 25,180 18,780 35,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.04% 42.93% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14,416 8,856 23,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -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 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 15 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 31 May 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 -46 41 £97,500 +39.29% 6
Work from Home +42 30 £100,000 +11.11%
UK excluding London -38 24 £100,000 +73.91% 4
London -28 19 £80,000 -15.79% 4
East of England - 11 £100,000 -
North of England -39 6 £90,000 +56.52% 1
Midlands - 4 £90,000 - 1
North West -5 3 £90,000 +56.52% 1
West Midlands - 3 £90,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £90,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £90,000 - 1
South East - 1 £62,500 - 2
Wales - 1 £90,000 -
North East - 1 £100,000 -
Scotland - 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 11 (25.58%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Dagster
3 6 (13.95%) dbt
3 6 (13.95%) Prefect
4 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) Snowflake
5 4 (9.30%) Azure
6 3 (6.98%) Pulumi
7 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Data Vault
1 6 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
3 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata
5 1 (2.33%) Mixpanel
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) git-flow
2 1 (2.33%) JUnit
General
1 20 (46.51%) Games
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Electronics
3 2 (4.65%) iGaming
3 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.65%) Legal
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Senior
2 13 (30.23%) Software Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) Data Engineer
4 11 (25.58%) Developer
5 9 (20.93%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (20.93%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (20.93%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (18.60%) .NET Developer
6 8 (18.60%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (18.60%) C# Developer
7 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 7 (16.28%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (13.95%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (9.30%) JavaScript Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) .NET Software Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) .NET
2 11 (25.58%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.98%) React
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.65%) Spring
5 1 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (2.33%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.33%) HTML
5 1 (2.33%) Jest
5 1 (2.33%) JPA
5 1 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (2.33%) Redux
5 1 (2.33%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.63%) Online Gambling
3 3 (6.98%) Hedge funds
3 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.65%) IoT
4 2 (4.65%) Online Games
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Analytics
1 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
2 12 (27.91%) Data Engineering
3 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
3 11 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (20.93%) Data Modelling
4 9 (20.93%) DevOps
5 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
5 8 (18.60%) Data Munging
5 8 (18.60%) Market Making
5 8 (18.60%) Mathematics
5 8 (18.60%) Observability
5 8 (18.60%) Pair Programming
5 8 (18.60%) Physics
5 8 (18.60%) Strategic Planning
6 7 (16.28%) Clean Code
6 7 (16.28%) Product Thinking
7 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (13.95%) Kimball Methodology
7 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) C#
2 15 (34.88%) Python
2 15 (34.88%) SQL
3 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
4 10 (23.26%) Go
4 10 (23.26%) Java
5 8 (18.60%) C++
5 8 (18.60%) Rust
6 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
1 8 (18.60%) Master's Degree
1 8 (18.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Firmware
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.65%) Databricks
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Amplitude