Games Contracts in London

Gaming
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 367 330
Rank change year-on-year +39 -37 -5
Contract jobs citing Games 67 113 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.44% 0.79%
As % of the General category 0.61% 0.69% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 87 239
10th Percentile £263 £250 £398
25th Percentile £319 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £564 £611 £644
90th Percentile £670 £638 £703
England median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £38.05 - £27.48
25th Percentile £40.75 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +37.54% +39.94%
75th Percentile £44.25 £67.50 £56.44
90th Percentile £46.95 £72.00 £79.80
England median hourly rate £41.21 £60.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -31.32% +37.54% +43.03%

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,012 16,349 23,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.01% 63.28% 60.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,834 16,813
10th Percentile £336 £376 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 213 295
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.65 £18.70
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.92 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -14.88% +33.83%
75th Percentile £44.75 £54.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.12 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.75% +50.23% -4.10%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in London

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Games in London

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in London

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Games in London

Games
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +34 8 £600 - 28
West London +21 3 £60 - 18
East London - 2 £540 - 20
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) 3ds Max
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.49%) Blender
1 1 (1.49%) Maya
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.96%) AWS
2 5 (7.46%) Figma
2 5 (7.46%) SaaS
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.99%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.49%) Azure
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.49%) dbt
5 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.49%) GCP
5 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.49%) Serverless
5 1 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.49%) Unqork
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Internet
1 2 (2.99%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (1.49%) MySQL
1 1 (1.49%) Power BI
1 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.49%) Git
1 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Marketing
3 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Back Office
5 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.49%) French Language
6 1 (1.49%) German Language
6 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Developer
2 13 (19.40%) Designer
3 9 (13.43%) Lead
4 7 (10.45%) Games Designer
4 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) UX Designer
5 5 (7.46%) C++ Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) UI Designer
6 4 (5.97%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Writer
6 4 (5.97%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (4.48%) Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Games Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Designer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Games Designer
7 3 (4.48%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 16 (23.88%) Unreal Engine
2 4 (5.97%) FFmpeg
2 4 (5.97%) HTML
3 3 (4.48%) CSS
3 3 (4.48%) React
4 2 (2.99%) .NET
4 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.99%) REST
4 2 (2.99%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.99%) WebGL
5 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.49%) HTML5
5 1 (1.49%) Kafka
5 1 (1.49%) Node.js
5 1 (1.49%) NumPy
5 1 (1.49%) Playwright
5 1 (1.49%) SciPy
5 1 (1.49%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (10.45%) Augmented Reality
2 7 (10.45%) Mobile Games
2 7 (10.45%) Virtual Reality
3 3 (4.48%) Animation
3 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Social Media
4 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.49%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Online Games
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Android
2 3 (4.48%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.40%) User Experience
2 12 (17.91%) UX Design
3 10 (14.93%) Agile
3 10 (14.93%) Mentoring
3 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (13.43%) Computer Science
4 9 (13.43%) Data Protection
5 8 (11.94%) Game Development
6 7 (10.45%) Project Management
6 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
6 7 (10.45%) Web Development
7 6 (8.96%) Roadmaps
8 5 (7.46%) Android Development
8 5 (7.46%) Prototyping
9 4 (5.97%) Change Management
9 4 (5.97%) Computer Vision
9 4 (5.97%) Data Science
9 4 (5.97%) Scrum
9 4 (5.97%) User Stories
9 4 (5.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) C++
1 8 (11.94%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) C#
3 5 (7.46%) SQL
4 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.48%) Rust
6 2 (2.99%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.99%) Java
7 1 (1.49%) PHP
7 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.99%) PMP
4 1 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
1 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (1.49%) Adobe
3 1 (1.49%) Apple
3 1 (1.49%) Databricks
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle
3 1 (1.49%) SAP
3 1 (1.49%) VMware
3 1 (1.49%) Workday