Games Jobs in England

Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 69 98
Rank change year-on-year -149 +29 +52
Permanent jobs citing Games 1,144 4,100 4,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.33% 4.55% 3.50%
As % of the General category 2.25% 6.67% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 884 770 1,569
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,725 £38,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,450 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,875 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,900 £62,500 £69,250
% change year-on-year -12.16% -9.75% +25.91%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,817 61,432 86,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.28% 68.20% 64.19%
Number of salaries quoted 35,612 33,438 45,207
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Games in England

Games
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in England

Games
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -153 319 £65,000 -5.11% 225
North of England -130 273 £54,900 +9.80% 153
South West -16 189 £45,500 -17.27% 33
South East -93 147 £50,000 -20.00% 136
North West -145 138 £45,000 -10.00% 89
Midlands -165 128 £55,000 +37.50% 97
West Midlands -128 96 £55,000 +69.23% 69
East of England -85 82 £60,000 -20.00% 35
North East +49 69 £64,080 +34.91% 23
Yorkshire -100 66 £50,000 -5.66% 43
East Midlands -110 32 £52,500 +5.57% 29
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 94 (8.22%) Confluence
2 75 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 7 (0.61%) WordPress
7 6 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.44%) CMS
8 5 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.26%) IIS
9 3 (0.26%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.17%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.087%) TYPO3
Applications
1 20 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.31%) AutoCAD
3 13 (1.14%) Maya
4 12 (1.05%) Photoshop
5 11 (0.96%) Blender
6 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.87%) Revit
7 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
8 8 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
8 8 (0.70%) Sketch
9 7 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.52%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.52%) ZBrush
11 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.35%) MotionBuilder
12 4 (0.35%) Simulink
12 4 (0.35%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.26%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 41 (3.58%) Endur
2 6 (0.52%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.087%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 166 (14.51%) AWS
2 151 (13.20%) Azure
3 67 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (3.32%) SaaS
5 33 (2.88%) Serverless
6 28 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (2.01%) Amazon S3
8 21 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (1.84%) GitHub
9 20 (1.75%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.49%) dbt
10 17 (1.49%) Figma
11 14 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (1.22%) Google Workspace
12 13 (1.14%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 10 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (0.79%) Asana
16 8 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (0.70%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.28%) Firewall
2 37 (3.23%) Wireless
3 19 (1.66%) Broadband
4 15 (1.31%) DNS
5 12 (1.05%) Internet
5 12 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.96%) LAN
6 11 (0.96%) NAS
6 11 (0.96%) VPN
7 9 (0.79%) Network Security
8 8 (0.70%) WAN
9 4 (0.35%) DHCP
10 3 (0.26%) VoIP
10 3 (0.26%) VSAN
11 2 (0.17%) 4G
11 2 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) HTTP
11 2 (0.17%) MPLS
11 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.17%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.80%) SQL Server
2 72 (6.29%) MySQL
3 50 (4.37%) Redis
4 48 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 47 (4.11%) RDBMS
6 33 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (1.84%) NoSQL
9 20 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.75%) Power BI
10 19 (1.66%) Tableau
11 15 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.87%) Big Data
12 10 (0.87%) Looker
13 9 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.70%) Couchbase
14 8 (0.70%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.70%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 136 (11.89%) Git
2 112 (9.79%) JIRA
3 87 (7.60%) Visual Studio
4 85 (7.43%) Bitbucket
5 59 (5.16%) Sourcetree
6 17 (1.49%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.14%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.87%) Subversion
9 8 (0.70%) gulp
10 6 (0.52%) Grunt
11 5 (0.44%) JUnit
11 5 (0.44%) webpack
11 5 (0.44%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.35%) Storybook
12 4 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.26%) PostCSS
13 3 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.26%) rollup.js
13 3 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 286 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 135 (11.80%) Finance
3 90 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
4 87 (7.60%) Marketing
5 80 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (4.11%) Retail
8 45 (3.93%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.97%) Legal
10 28 (2.45%) Advertising
10 28 (2.45%) Law
11 21 (1.84%) Electronics
11 21 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.40%) Billing
15 15 (1.31%) Military
16 14 (1.22%) Public Sector
17 13 (1.14%) Banking
17 13 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 353 (30.86%) Developer
2 232 (20.28%) Senior
3 161 (14.07%) Games Developer
4 101 (8.83%) .NET Developer
5 87 (7.60%) 3D Developer
6 86 (7.52%) Lead
7 84 (7.34%) Unity 3D Developer
8 82 (7.17%) Senior Developer
9 73 (6.38%) Project Manager
10 64 (5.59%) Analyst
11 53 (4.63%) C# Developer
12 46 (4.02%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.85%) Senior Games Developer
13 44 (3.85%) Software Engineer
14 41 (3.58%) Data Engineer
15 39 (3.41%) Architect
16 38 (3.32%) C# .NET Developer
17 35 (3.06%) Lead Developer
18 31 (2.71%) Development Manager
18 31 (2.71%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.76%) .NET
2 132 (11.54%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 88 (7.69%) HTML
4 80 (6.99%) .NET Core
5 65 (5.68%) ASP.NET
6 62 (5.42%) ASP.NET MVC
6 62 (5.42%) React
7 59 (5.16%) CSS
8 57 (4.98%) AngularJS
9 56 (4.90%) Unreal Engine
10 55 (4.81%) Node.js
11 47 (4.11%) RESTful
12 46 (4.02%) Vue
13 45 (3.93%) Entity Framework
14 43 (3.76%) HTML5
15 42 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
15 42 (3.67%) Kafka
16 31 (2.71%) .NET Framework
17 27 (2.36%) Laravel
18 26 (2.27%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.58%) Virtual Reality
2 61 (5.33%) Client/Server
3 48 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (3.58%) Swaptions
5 39 (3.41%) Algorithms
6 37 (3.23%) Online Games
7 35 (3.06%) Animation
8 34 (2.97%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.36%) Social Media
10 25 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (2.10%) Data Structures
12 23 (2.01%) Product Ownership
13 22 (1.92%) Augmented Reality
13 22 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
13 22 (1.92%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
14 20 (1.75%) IoT
15 18 (1.57%) Operational Technology
16 16 (1.40%) Blockchain
16 16 (1.40%) Oculus
Operating Systems
1 116 (10.14%) Windows
2 39 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 37 (3.23%) Linux
4 24 (2.10%) Mac OS
5 20 (1.75%) Android
6 14 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.70%) Unix
8 8 (0.70%) VMS
9 6 (0.52%) Windows Vista
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.26%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (17.22%) Agile
2 196 (17.13%) Software Engineering
3 176 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (12.06%) Scrum
5 116 (10.14%) DevOps
6 112 (9.79%) Computer Science
6 112 (9.79%) Full Stack Development
7 110 (9.62%) Design Patterns
8 109 (9.53%) Cybersecurity
9 107 (9.35%) Project Management
10 106 (9.27%) Mentoring
11 100 (8.74%) Use Case
12 95 (8.30%) Mathematics
13 87 (7.60%) Analytics
14 85 (7.43%) Roadmaps
15 84 (7.34%) UML
16 78 (6.82%) Decision-Making
17 77 (6.73%) MVC
18 65 (5.68%) IT Strategy
19 63 (5.51%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 273 (23.86%) C#
2 180 (15.73%) SQL
3 154 (13.46%) JavaScript
4 127 (11.10%) Python
5 68 (5.94%) Java
6 67 (5.86%) TypeScript
7 45 (3.93%) PHP
8 44 (3.85%) VB
9 41 (3.58%) C++
10 25 (2.19%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.49%) C
11 17 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.31%) Bash
12 15 (1.31%) RPG
13 12 (1.05%) Go
14 9 (0.79%) Rust
15 6 (0.52%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.44%) R
17 2 (0.17%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 329 (28.76%) Degree
2 181 (15.82%) Security Cleared
3 127 (11.10%) SC Cleared
4 98 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (3.67%) DBS Check
6 41 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (2.71%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.22%) CCNA
10 13 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.05%) CCNP
12 10 (0.87%) CCNA CyberOps
12 10 (0.87%) MCP
12 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.70%) A+ Certification
13 8 (0.70%) PhD
14 7 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.52%) HNC
15 6 (0.52%) PMP
16 5 (0.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.93%) GDPR
2 28 (2.45%) QA
3 25 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 25 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.79%) SLA
8 8 (0.70%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.26%) NIST
11 2 (0.17%) GRC
11 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.17%) ITGC
11 2 (0.17%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.087%) COSHH
12 1 (0.087%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.087%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.087%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 45 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.50%) Docker
3 25 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.087%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (2.88%) Terraform
2 28 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.79%) QRadar
5 9 (0.79%) SCCM
6 8 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.61%) WSUS
8 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.26%) Ansible
10 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.087%) Grafana
11 1 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.087%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.087%) Puppet
11 1 (0.087%) WMI
Vendors
1 255 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.93%) Oracle
3 44 (3.85%) Apple
4 41 (3.58%) OpenLink
4 41 (3.58%) Sybase
4 41 (3.58%) TIBCO
5 39 (3.41%) Google
6 34 (2.97%) Adobe
7 25 (2.19%) VMware
8 23 (2.01%) Cisco
9 18 (1.57%) IFS
10 16 (1.40%) Workday
11 13 (1.14%) Autodesk
12 11 (0.96%) Databricks
13 10 (0.87%) Dell
13 10 (0.87%) Draytek
13 10 (0.87%) YouTube
14 9 (0.79%) Darktrace
14 9 (0.79%) F5
15 7 (0.61%) Salesforce