Game Development Jobs in London

Games Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Game Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Game Development over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 555 751
Rank change year-on-year +57 +196 -179
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 15 45 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.061% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 18
10th Percentile - £30,000 £48,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £87,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +48.94% -9.62%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £70,313
90th Percentile - £112,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +17.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,024 29,847 71,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.45% 95.12% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,999 21,947 34,349
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Game Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Game Development in London

Game Development
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Game Development in London.

Salary trend for Game Development in London

Game Development
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Game Development in London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Game Development in London

Game Development
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 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Serverless
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Firebase
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Data Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Games Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Games Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Games Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Graduate
5 1 (6.67%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Unreal Engine
2 4 (26.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (6.67%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile Games
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Analytics
1 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (26.67%) Coaching
2 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Physics
3 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Go
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Apple
1 1 (6.67%) Google