Games Contracts in England

Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 414 356
Rank change year-on-year +15 -58 -3
Contract jobs citing Games 132 237 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.49% 0.73%
As % of the General category 0.62% 0.83% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 197 428
10th Percentile £217 £258 £363
25th Percentile £300 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £610 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £401 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.69% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £6.93 - £27.48
25th Percentile £29.75 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £41.21 £60.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.32% +37.54% +43.03%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £56.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.00 £79.80
UK median hourly rate £39.92 £60.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -33.47% +37.93% +38.76%

All General Skills
England

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,189 28,708 40,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.21% 59.25% 56.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,665 20,155 28,265
10th Percentile £281 £315 £317
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 931 1,312
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.59 £70.00 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Games in England

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in England.

Daily rate trend for Games in England

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in England

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Games in England.

Hourly rate trend for Games in England

Games
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Games in England

Games
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +55 67 £425 -15.00% 290
Midlands +19 19 £225 -30.77% 90
North of England +11 17 £500 +20.48% 152
West Midlands +19 13 £225 -30.77% 64
East of England -3 13 £375 -37.55% 45
Yorkshire +11 10 £525 +7.69% 40
East Midlands +20 6 £418 +28.62% 27
North West +5 6 £425 +2.41% 92
South West +9 3 £525 +90.91% 36
South East +16 2 £120 -72.57% 164
North East +13 1 £450 +12.50% 22
Games
UK

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.27%) CMS
1 3 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (8.33%) Photoshop
2 10 (7.58%) Maya
3 7 (5.30%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (3.03%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (3.03%) Blender
5 3 (2.27%) Adobe XD
5 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (2.27%) Sketch
5 3 (2.27%) ZBrush
6 2 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.52%) NUKE
7 1 (0.76%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.61%) AWS
2 7 (5.30%) Figma
2 7 (5.30%) SaaS
3 4 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.52%) Azure
5 2 (1.52%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.52%) Serverless
5 2 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.76%) dbt
6 1 (0.76%) Discord
6 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.76%) GCP
6 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.76%) Unqork
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Internet
1 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.76%) Intranet
2 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (1.52%) MySQL
1 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
1 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.76%) Power BI
2 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) JIRA
2 2 (1.52%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.76%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.76%) PostCSS
3 1 (0.76%) VTune
General
1 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.36%) Marketing
3 10 (7.58%) Finance
4 8 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.52%) Advertising
7 2 (1.52%) Automotive
7 2 (1.52%) Back Office
7 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Retail
7 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.76%) Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Electronics
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (17.42%) Developer
2 19 (14.39%) Lead
3 15 (11.36%) Designer
4 11 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 9 (6.82%) Architect
5 9 (6.82%) Games Designer
5 9 (6.82%) Test Leader
5 9 (6.82%) UX Designer
6 8 (6.06%) Analyst
7 7 (5.30%) C++ Developer
7 7 (5.30%) Senior
7 7 (5.30%) UI Designer
8 6 (4.55%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.55%) UI/UX Designer
9 5 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.79%) Technical Writer
10 4 (3.03%) Salesforce Developer
11 3 (2.27%) Cloud Developer
11 3 (2.27%) Python Software Engineer
11 3 (2.27%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.18%) Unreal Engine
2 18 (13.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 8 (6.06%) HTML
3 8 (6.06%) React
4 6 (4.55%) CSS
5 4 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.03%) FFmpeg
5 4 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (3.03%) REST
5 4 (3.03%) Visualforce
6 3 (2.27%) .NET
6 3 (2.27%) Kafka
7 2 (1.52%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.52%) Node.js
7 2 (1.52%) V-Ray
7 2 (1.52%) Vue
7 2 (1.52%) WebGL
8 1 (0.76%) Angular 2
8 1 (0.76%) Puppeteer
8 1 (0.76%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Augmented Reality
1 12 (9.09%) Virtual Reality
2 9 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.30%) Mobile Games
4 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.79%) Video Editing
5 4 (3.03%) Animation
5 4 (3.03%) Motion Graphics
5 4 (3.03%) Social Media
6 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.27%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.52%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.52%) Online Games
7 2 (1.52%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.76%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Windows
2 5 (3.79%) Android
2 5 (3.79%) Linux
3 2 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (12.88%) Agile
3 16 (12.12%) User Experience
4 15 (11.36%) Web Development
5 14 (10.61%) Game Development
5 14 (10.61%) UX Design
6 13 (9.85%) Software Engineering
7 11 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 10 (7.58%) Computer Science
8 10 (7.58%) Project Management
8 10 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (6.82%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (6.82%) Data Protection
10 8 (6.06%) Roadmaps
10 8 (6.06%) Scenario Testing
10 8 (6.06%) Test Management
10 8 (6.06%) Test Planning
10 8 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (5.30%) Change Management
11 7 (5.30%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.61%) C++
2 12 (9.09%) Python
3 10 (7.58%) C#
3 10 (7.58%) JavaScript
3 10 (7.58%) SQL
4 7 (5.30%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.03%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.27%) Rust
7 2 (1.52%) Java
7 2 (1.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.76%) Bash
8 1 (0.76%) C
8 1 (0.76%) GLSL
8 1 (0.76%) HLSL
8 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Degree
2 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.03%) PMP
4 3 (2.27%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
1 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (1.52%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) Ansible
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.76%) Puppet
2 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (7.58%) Adobe
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.79%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 3 (2.27%) Darktrace
5 3 (2.27%) FireEye
5 3 (2.27%) LogRhythm
5 3 (2.27%) Splunk
6 2 (1.52%) Okta
6 2 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (0.76%) Apple
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.76%) Databricks
7 1 (0.76%) Google
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle
7 1 (0.76%) Sony
7 1 (0.76%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) Workday