Games Jobs in Watford

Gaming
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 36 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 +40
Permanent jobs citing Games 3 8 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 2.17% 2.68% 24.16%
As % of the General category 2.44% 5.16% 35.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 34
10th Percentile £54,500 - £54,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £37,500 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -51.52% -17.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £115,000 £101,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £43,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +37.14% -46.97% +3.13%

All General Skills
Watford

Games falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 123 155 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 89.13% 52.01% 68.26%
Number of salaries quoted 70 112 127
10th Percentile £30,875 £28,525 £26,400
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £46,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -26.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £55,188 £63,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £87,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.93% -13.04% +15.00%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Job vacancy trend for Games in Watford

Games
Salary Trend in Watford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in Watford.

Salary trend for Games in Watford

Games
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Watford over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in Watford

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Android Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Xcode
General
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React Native
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Online Games
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Munging
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Linear Regression
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Swift
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript