Hybrid/Remote Mobile Games Job Trends

Mobile Game
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Games in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Games over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 422 475
Rank change year-on-year +54 +53 +227
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Games 6 18 11
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.040% 0.11% 0.051%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £85,000 - £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £71,875
90th Percentile £105,000 - £80,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £37,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year +140.00% -23.08% -23.53%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Mobile Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,185 6,471 8,263
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.49% 39.54% 38.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,310 3,567 6,528
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,625 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Mobile Games
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mobile Games and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Mobile Games job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Mobile Games
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Games.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Games

Mobile Games
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Games over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Mobile Games salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Mobile Games
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Machine Learning
1 5 (83.33%) SaaS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Games
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) Symfony
1 5 (83.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 5 (83.33%) WebGL
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Educational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Android
1 5 (83.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) Budget Management
2 5 (83.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (83.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 5 (83.33%) Objectives and Key Results
2 5 (83.33%) Resource Allocation
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 5 (83.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Programmatic Advertising
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Kotlin
1 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL