Games Jobs in the West Midlands

Gaming
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 81 188
Rank change year-on-year -47 +107 -84
Permanent jobs citing Games 107 169 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.53% 3.33% 1.59%
As % of the General category 2.75% 4.50% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 55 32 56
10th Percentile £30,400 £22,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £23,313 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £32,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.29% -24.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,375 £52,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,893 3,759 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 55.65% 74.05% 67.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,254 2,205 3,443
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £30,945
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,624
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,546
90th Percentile £76,107 £78,350 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Games in the West Midlands

Games
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Games in the West Midlands

Games
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the West Midlands

Games
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Staffordshire +3 43 £52,500 +75.00% 4
Birmingham -27 43 £45,000 +44.00% 11
Coventry +14 6 £47,500 - 2
Solihull -18 6 £55,000 - 2
Shropshire - 4 £32,500 - 1
Warwickshire +5 3 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Dudley -6 2 - -
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.54%) AutoCAD
3 4 (3.74%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.87%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.87%) Maya
4 2 (1.87%) ZBrush
5 1 (0.93%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.67%) Azure
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (3.74%) SaaS
3 3 (2.80%) AWS
4 1 (0.93%) Figma
4 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (19.63%) 3GPP
1 21 (19.63%) 5G
1 21 (19.63%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (4.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) DHCP
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) SSH
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.80%) Bugzilla
2 3 (2.80%) Git
3 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.87%) JUnit
4 1 (0.93%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.93%) Grunt
4 1 (0.93%) gulp
4 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 36 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.56%) Finance
3 21 (19.63%) Telecoms
4 19 (17.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (15.89%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (15.89%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.61%) Marketing
6 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) iGaming
9 1 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (22.43%) Developer
3 21 (19.63%) Project Manager
4 11 (10.28%) Hardware Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) C++ Developer
5 8 (7.48%) Electrical Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Lead
5 8 (7.48%) Product Manager
6 6 (5.61%) Lead Developer
6 6 (5.61%) Senior
7 4 (3.74%) Analyst
7 4 (3.74%) Designer
7 4 (3.74%) Senior Designer
8 3 (2.80%) Games Designer
8 3 (2.80%) Games Tester
8 3 (2.80%) Senior Games Designer
8 3 (2.80%) Tester
9 2 (1.87%) Applications Project Manager
9 2 (1.87%) Service Support Manager
9 2 (1.87%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (3.74%) HTML
2 4 (3.74%) React
3 3 (2.80%) CSS
3 3 (2.80%) RESTful
3 3 (2.80%) Vue
4 2 (1.87%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.87%) JWT
4 2 (1.87%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (1.87%) REST
4 2 (1.87%) Spring
4 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.87%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (1.87%) web3js
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) CryEngine
5 1 (0.93%) CSS3
5 1 (0.93%) HTML5
5 1 (0.93%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Management Information System
2 11 (10.28%) Operational Technology
3 10 (9.35%) Mobile App
4 8 (7.48%) Virtual Reality
5 7 (6.54%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (5.61%) Augmented Reality
6 6 (5.61%) e-Learning
7 5 (4.67%) Client/Server
7 5 (4.67%) Clustering
7 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (3.74%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.87%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.87%) IoT
9 2 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.87%) Web3
10 1 (0.93%) Animation
10 1 (0.93%) Social Media
10 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (22.43%) Mentoring
3 19 (17.76%) Project Management
4 17 (15.89%) ERP
4 17 (15.89%) Risk Management
4 17 (15.89%) Systems Engineering
5 16 (14.95%) Customer Requirements
6 12 (11.21%) Mathematics
7 10 (9.35%) Agile
8 7 (6.54%) Product Management
9 6 (5.61%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (5.61%) B2B
9 6 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (5.61%) Data Science
9 6 (5.61%) Performance Metrics
9 6 (5.61%) Product Strategy
9 6 (5.61%) Roadmaps
9 6 (5.61%) Server Management
9 6 (5.61%) Visual Effects
10 5 (4.67%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.28%) JavaScript
2 9 (8.41%) C#
2 9 (8.41%) C++
3 5 (4.67%) SQL
4 3 (2.80%) Java
4 3 (2.80%) Python
5 2 (1.87%) PHP
5 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.93%) C
6 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Degree
2 19 (17.76%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Chartered Engineer
4 3 (2.80%) ISEB
4 3 (2.80%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CCNA
6 1 (0.93%) CCNA CyberOps
6 1 (0.93%) CCNP
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (4.67%) Hyper-V
1 5 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) IFS
2 17 (15.89%) Workday
3 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.67%) Dell
4 5 (4.67%) EqualLogic
4 5 (4.67%) NetApp
4 5 (4.67%) Nimble Storage
4 5 (4.67%) VMware
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco