Games Contracts with Work from Home Options

Gaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 297 323 309
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 +51
Contract jobs citing Games 44 133 350
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.54% 0.79%
As % of the General category 0.51% 0.92% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 107 293
10th Percentile £246 £258 £376
25th Percentile £309 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £706 £700 £698
UK median daily rate £401 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.69% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £39.92 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £39.92 £60.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -33.47% +37.93% +38.76%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,689 14,486 24,292
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 59.01% 58.46% 54.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,723 10,209 17,646
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 327 349
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +47.49% +47.39%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Games
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Games trend for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Games.

Games daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Games over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Games daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Games.

Games hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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:

Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Maya
2 4 (9.09%) Photoshop
3 2 (4.55%) NUKE
3 2 (4.55%) ZBrush
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) AWS
2 3 (6.82%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.27%) Figma
4 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
1 1 (2.27%) MySQL
1 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.27%) PostCSS
General
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Automotive
2 2 (4.55%) Back Office
2 2 (4.55%) Finance
2 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.27%) Marketing
3 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Developer
2 8 (18.18%) Architect
3 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Architect
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Technical Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) C++ Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Compliance Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Designer
5 2 (4.55%) Integration Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Senior
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Administrator
6 1 (2.27%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Games Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) Unreal Engine
2 7 (15.91%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 4 (9.09%) FFmpeg
4 2 (4.55%) React
4 2 (4.55%) V-Ray
5 1 (2.27%) .NET
5 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.27%) CSS
5 1 (2.27%) Kafka
5 1 (2.27%) Node.js
5 1 (2.27%) NumPy
5 1 (2.27%) React Native
5 1 (2.27%) SciPy
5 1 (2.27%) SwiftUI
5 1 (2.27%) Vue
5 1 (2.27%) web3js
5 1 (2.27%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Animation
2 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile Games
3 2 (4.55%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.27%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.27%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Interactive Media
4 1 (2.27%) Online Games
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Video Editing
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (2.27%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (11.36%) Game Development
3 4 (9.09%) Agile
3 4 (9.09%) Migration
4 3 (6.82%) User Experience
5 2 (4.55%) Change Management
5 2 (4.55%) Compliance Audit
5 2 (4.55%) Data Management
5 2 (4.55%) Data Sharing
5 2 (4.55%) Emotional Intelligence
5 2 (4.55%) ITIL
5 2 (4.55%) Mentoring
5 2 (4.55%) Physics
5 2 (4.55%) Roadmaps
5 2 (4.55%) User Stories
5 2 (4.55%) UX Design
5 2 (4.55%) Web Development
6 1 (2.27%) CI/CD
6 1 (2.27%) Customer Experience
6 1 (2.27%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) C#
2 3 (6.82%) C++
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.27%) Bash
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) PHP
4 1 (2.27%) Rust
4 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.27%) Ansible
2 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.27%) Puppet
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Okta
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks