Game Development Contracts in the Midlands

Games Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Game Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Game Development over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 142 211
Rank change year-on-year +9 +69 -
Contract jobs citing Game Development 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.19% 0.036% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.043% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £157 - £255
25th Percentile £190 £508 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £196 £515 £325
Median % change year-on-year -61.91% +58.46% -
75th Percentile £209 £523 £444
90th Percentile - - £508
England median daily rate £225 £508 £433
% change year-on-year -55.67% +17.34% -1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Game Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,223 2,342 4,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.63% 84.46% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,610 3,008
10th Percentile £255 £250 £250
25th Percentile £375 £384 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -1.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 110 106
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.50 £11.78
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.71 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +57.14% +20.69%
75th Percentile £35.00 £51.50 £22.30
90th Percentile £53.00 £67.63 £36.96
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Game Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Game Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Game Development in the Midlands

Game Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Game Development in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Game Development in the Midlands

Game Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Game Development in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Game Development in the Midlands

Game Development
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Game Development within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
West Midlands - 4 £196 - 1
East Midlands +5 1 £199 -61.36% 2
Game Development
England

Game Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Maya
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (40.00%) ZBrush
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Games
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Sony