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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 741 670 788
Rank change year-on-year -71 +118 -71
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 43 18 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.036% 0.037%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.087% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30 14 18
10th Percentile £76,000 £42,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £52,813 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £70,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -13.85% +14.04%
75th Percentile - £96,875 £110,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,750 £124,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £56,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +77.78% -31.82% +73.68%

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 27,731 20,655 27,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 41.48% 33.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,411 10,361 16,265
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,473 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% -5.00% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -55 41 £100,000 +42.86% 63
Work from Home +7 33 £100,000 +42.86% 32
UK excluding London -75 32 £100,000 +77.78% 26
East of England - 13 £100,000 - 3
North of England -44 11 £90,000 +67.44% 8
London -46 11 £82,500 -10.81% 50
Yorkshire - 7 £90,000 - 4
Midlands - 4 £90,000 - 2
North West -21 3 £90,000 +67.44% 3
West Midlands - 3 £90,000 - 2
South East -31 2 £60,000 -4.00% 1
Wales -56 1 £90,000 -
Scotland - 1 £90,000 - 10
North East - 1 £100,000 - 1
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 11 (25.58%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Dagster
3 6 (13.95%) dbt
3 6 (13.95%) GCP
3 6 (13.95%) Prefect
4 5 (11.63%) Azure
4 5 (11.63%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.98%) Pulumi
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Data Vault
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
2 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) git-flow
2 1 (2.33%) JUnit
General
1 19 (44.19%) Games
2 9 (20.93%) iGaming
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Electronics
6 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Senior
2 12 (27.91%) Data Engineer
3 9 (20.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) JavaScript Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Software Engineer
5 7 (16.28%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (16.28%) Developer
6 6 (13.95%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Category Manager
6 6 (13.95%) Senior Category Manager
6 6 (13.95%) Senior Manager
6 6 (13.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (11.63%) .NET Developer
7 5 (11.63%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (11.63%) C# Developer
7 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 5 (11.63%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) .NET
1 13 (30.23%) .NET Core
2 4 (9.30%) React
3 3 (6.98%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.33%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.33%) HTML
5 1 (2.33%) Jest
5 1 (2.33%) JPA
5 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.33%) Redux
5 1 (2.33%) Spring
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Online Gambling
2 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.98%) IoT
4 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.65%) Online Games
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (25.58%) Data Engineering
3 9 (20.93%) Data Modelling
4 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
5 7 (16.28%) Analytics
5 7 (16.28%) Clean Code
5 7 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (13.95%) Benchmarking
6 6 (13.95%) Business Strategy
6 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.95%) Contract Management
6 6 (13.95%) Kimball Methodology
6 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
6 6 (13.95%) Performance Management
6 6 (13.95%) Process Improvement
6 6 (13.95%) Product Thinking
6 6 (13.95%) Project Management
6 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
6 6 (13.95%) Spend Analysis
6 6 (13.95%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) Python
2 16 (37.21%) C#
3 14 (32.56%) JavaScript
4 13 (30.23%) SQL
5 6 (13.95%) Go
6 5 (11.63%) Java
7 3 (6.98%) C++
7 3 (6.98%) Rust
7 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
1 3 (6.98%) Master's Degree
1 3 (6.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Firmware
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.65%) Databricks
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Google