Game Development Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Games Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Game Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Game Development over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 567 650
Rank change year-on-year +169 +83 +102
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 19 17 27
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.050% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.055% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 18
10th Percentile - £30,475 £38,375
25th Percentile £25,000 £38,750 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -1.96% +15.91%
75th Percentile £42,500 £105,625 £83,438
90th Percentile £46,500 £115,000 £97,625
UK median annual salary £30,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% -19.23% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Game Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Game Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Game Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Game Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Game Development
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Game Development.

Game Development salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Game Development
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Game Development over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Game Development salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Game Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (10.53%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) GitHub
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
General
1 19 (100.00%) Games
2 17 (89.47%) Social Skills
3 7 (36.84%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Android Developer
3 7 (36.84%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (15.79%) Graduate
4 3 (15.79%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Graduate Front-End Developer (Graduate Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (15.79%) Graduate JavaScript Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (15.79%) Junior JavaScript Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) HTML
1 7 (36.84%) HTML5
1 7 (36.84%) JSON
1 7 (36.84%) Node.js
1 7 (36.84%) Pixi.js
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (89.47%) Mobile Games
2 10 (52.63%) Educational Technology
3 2 (10.53%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Linux
2 10 (52.63%) Android
2 10 (52.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (52.63%) Android Development
2 10 (52.63%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Prototyping
2 10 (52.63%) Rapid Prototyping
2 10 (52.63%) User Experience
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Code Quality
3 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
3 7 (36.84%) Unit Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Architectural Design
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
1 10 (52.63%) Kotlin
1 10 (52.63%) Objective-C
1 10 (52.63%) Swift
2 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) VMware