Games Job Trends in Wolverhampton

Gaming
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Wolverhampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Games 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wolverhampton 0.99% - -
As % of the General category 1.39% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £47,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year -36.84% +25.00% -20.00%

All General Skills
Wolverhampton

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 general skills in Wolverhampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 72 56 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wolverhampton 71.29% 83.58% 65.33%
Number of salaries quoted 21 16 38
10th Percentile £29,500 £39,375 £22,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £92,500 £71,325 £61,123
90th Percentile £127,500 £79,050 £79,200
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Wolverhampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Games relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wolverhampton.

Games job vacancy trend in Wolverhampton

Games
Salary Trend in Wolverhampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wolverhampton citing Games.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wolverhampton citing Games

Games
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wolverhampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR