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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 632 776
Rank change year-on-year +65 +144 -242
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 17 26 88
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.064% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.067% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 40
10th Percentile £30,475 £38,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £39,688 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £105,625 £72,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £99,750 -
UK median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +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 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 (23.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) 3ds Max
1 1 (5.88%) Maya
1 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
1 1 (5.88%) ZBrush
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Serverless
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Big Data
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.88%) ClickHouse
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
General
1 17 (100.00%) Games
2 2 (11.76%) Aviation
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Military
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Data Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Engineering Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Games Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Programmer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Programmer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Game Programmer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Programmer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (17.65%) React Native
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.88%) CryEngine
5 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Client/Server
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile Games
1 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.76%) Oculus
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Collaborative Culture
1 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
2 6 (35.29%) Mathematics
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Coaching
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (17.65%) Content Development
5 3 (17.65%) Issue Tracking
5 3 (17.65%) Physics
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
6 2 (11.76%) Eye Tracking
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) SOLID
6 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Go
4 3 (17.65%) C
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) C++
6 1 (5.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Vertica