Mobile Games Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 578 616
Rank change year-on-year +161 +38 +203
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Games 44 7 30
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.021% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.058% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 17 7 25
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -20.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £35,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £42,500 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £30,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -60.00% +20.00% -5.66%

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 7,594 12,062 15,687
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.47% 35.75% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 9,247 11,426
10th Percentile £32,925 £32,500 £39,272
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Mobile Games
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mobile Games trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mobile Games
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mobile Games salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Games
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Mobile Games over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Mobile Games salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Games
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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) GitHub
2 14 (31.82%) Azure
3 12 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (22.73%) AWS
4 10 (22.73%) GCP
5 5 (11.36%) SaaS
6 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.64%) Tableau
3 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
3 5 (11.36%) MySQL
3 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (43.18%) Git
2 12 (27.27%) Gradle
3 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (15.91%) SonarQube
4 5 (11.36%) Maven
General
1 44 (100.00%) Games
2 40 (90.91%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) iGaming
4 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (65.91%) Developer
2 17 (38.64%) Android Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior
4 9 (20.45%) Lead
5 7 (15.91%) iOS Android Developer
5 7 (15.91%) iOS Developer
5 7 (15.91%) JavaScript Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Lead Android Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Lead Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Lead iOS Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Process Improvement Manager
6 6 (13.64%) Process Manager
7 5 (11.36%) Architect
7 5 (11.36%) Senior Architect
7 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 5 (11.36%) Software Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Junior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Kafka
1 10 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (15.91%) HTML
2 7 (15.91%) HTML5
2 7 (15.91%) JSON
2 7 (15.91%) Node.js
2 7 (15.91%) Pixi.js
2 7 (15.91%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 5 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (11.36%) OpenAPI
3 5 (11.36%) React
3 5 (11.36%) RESTful
3 5 (11.36%) Spring
4 3 (6.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (38.64%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (27.27%) Mobile App
3 10 (22.73%) Cloud Native
3 10 (22.73%) Educational Technology
4 4 (9.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Android
1 17 (38.64%) Apple iOS
2 10 (22.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (61.36%) B2B
3 22 (50.00%) DevOps
4 20 (45.45%) Computer Science
4 20 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 19 (43.18%) Agile
6 17 (38.64%) Android Development
6 17 (38.64%) Game Development
6 17 (38.64%) Migration
7 12 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
7 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 12 (27.27%) Design Patterns
7 12 (27.27%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 12 (27.27%) SOLID
7 12 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
7 12 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
7 12 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 12 (27.27%) Unit Testing
8 11 (25.00%) Analytics
8 11 (25.00%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) Java
2 17 (38.64%) Kotlin
2 17 (38.64%) Objective-C
2 17 (38.64%) Swift
3 16 (36.36%) SQL
4 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (59.09%) Degree
2 20 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.64%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Certification
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
2 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Argo
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
1 5 (11.36%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) New Relic
2 10 (22.73%) Google
3 6 (13.64%) SAP
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow