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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 627 768
Rank change year-on-year -14 +141 +108
Permanent jobs citing Sports Betting 30 44 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.093% 0.065%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 21 24 49
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,875 £33,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile - £89,250 £121,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £61,250 £71,250
% change year-on-year +63.27% -14.04% +1.79%

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 22,302 17,998 27,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.85% 38.08% 36.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,303 8,659 20,020
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,240 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +10.00% -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 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Sports Betting in the UK

Sports Betting
Top 9 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 February 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 +10 30 £85,000 +30.77% 18
Work from Home +49 23 £100,000 +60.00% 12
London +13 16 £82,500 +26.92% 11
UK excluding London -2 14 £100,000 +63.27% 12
East of England - 9 £100,000 -
North of England -20 3 £80,000 +30.61% 5
North West -16 2 £80,000 +30.61% 2
South East - 2 £52,500 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Metadata
2 1 (3.33%) Mixpanel
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 14 (46.67%) Games
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Legal
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
2 8 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) .NET
2 8 (26.67%) .NET Core
3 3 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) ADO
4 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.67%) Online Games
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
2 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Analytics
3 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (23.33%) Market Making
5 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (20.00%) Data Munging
5 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (20.00%) Observability
5 6 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 6 (20.00%) Physics
5 6 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
6 5 (16.67%) AI
7 4 (13.33%) ETL
8 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.67%) Data Engineering
9 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) Java
3 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) C++
4 6 (20.00%) Go
4 6 (20.00%) Rust
5 5 (16.67%) SQL
6 3 (10.00%) Python
7 1 (3.33%) Scala
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
1 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 6 (20.00%) PhD
2 2 (6.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Amplitude
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft