Games Jobs in West Yorkshire

Gaming
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 127 97
Rank change year-on-year +25 -30 -61
Permanent jobs citing Games 5 33 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 1.07% 3.07%
As % of the General category 0.50% 1.83% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 22 47
10th Percentile - £38,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £82,500 £45,000 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.19% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £105,000 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £69,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £25,267 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -49.47% -16.67% -

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 991 1,802 3,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 72.07% 58.41% 74.23%
Number of salaries quoted 532 1,326 1,576
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £32,323
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year - -8.90% +9.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,982 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.77% +3.00%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in West Yorkshire

Games
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Games in West Yorkshire

Games
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Games in West Yorkshire

Games
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Leeds +39 4 £92,500 +68.49% 55
Pontefract - 1 - -
Games
Yorkshire

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Head of Development
1 2 (40.00%) Head of Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Laravel
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Data Science
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) SDLC
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) BT