Game Development Jobs with Work from Home Options

Games Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Game Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Game Development over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 646 770
Rank change year-on-year +74 +124 -243
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 19 27 83
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.056% 0.063% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.066% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 35
10th Percentile £30,625 £38,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +15.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £86,875 £83,438 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,625 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Game Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,014 41,082 65,524
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.65% 96.08% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23,583 28,561 41,274
10th Percentile £33,930 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Game Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Game Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Game Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

Game Development
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Game Development over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

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 4 (21.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Big Data
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.26%) ClickHouse
3 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 19 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Aviation
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Engineering Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Games Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Programmer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Programmer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Graduate
5 1 (5.26%) Junior
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Game Programmer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Programmer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) React Native
3 3 (15.79%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.26%) Flask
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Mobile Games
2 3 (15.79%) Client/Server
2 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Oculus
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
2 7 (36.84%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (31.58%) Mathematics
4 5 (26.32%) Coaching
4 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Content Development
6 3 (15.79%) Issue Tracking
6 3 (15.79%) Physics
6 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.53%) Clean Code
7 2 (10.53%) Eye Tracking
7 2 (10.53%) SOLID
7 2 (10.53%) Web Development
8 1 (5.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) Go
4 3 (15.79%) C
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Vertica