Online Games Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Online Gaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Online Games over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 560 630
Rank change year-on-year +144 +70 +81
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 11 36 42
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.11% 0.100%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.30% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11 34 42
10th Percentile £61,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,750 £62,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £96,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Online 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 6,377 12,020 16,274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.82% 35.57% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 9,250 11,767
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Online Games
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Online Games
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Online Games salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Online Games
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Online Games over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Online Games salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Online 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) WordPress
2 1 (9.09%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) SaaS
3 3 (27.27%) Google Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Cloudflare
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Figma
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) Redis
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 11 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) iGaming
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Software Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Leader
1 2 (18.18%) QA Manager
1 2 (18.18%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Test Manager
1 2 (18.18%) React Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) SEO Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Next.js
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Blog
1 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Link Building
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Test Management
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Ahrefs
2 2 (18.18%) Screaming Frog
3 1 (9.09%) Facebook