Games Jobs in the Midlands

Gaming
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 36 179
Rank change year-on-year -158 +143 -54
Permanent jobs citing Games 130 602 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.02% 6.79% 1.75%
As % of the General category 1.86% 9.26% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 96 53 91
10th Percentile £33,750 £22,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,875 £26,250 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +22.73%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,990 6,499 6,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.09% 73.29% 62.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,786 3,032 4,276
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,991 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the Midlands

Games
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Games in the Midlands

Games
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the Midlands

Games
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands -122 98 £55,000 +71.88% 63
East Midlands -113 32 £58,750 +9.30% 29
Games
England

Games
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.77%) IIS
2 1 (0.77%) TYPO3
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) AutoCAD
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.54%) Maya
3 2 (1.54%) ZBrush
4 1 (0.77%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.77%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.77%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.77%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.77%) Revit
4 1 (0.77%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.85%) AWS
2 10 (7.69%) Azure
3 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (6.15%) Cloudflare
4 7 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.08%) SaaS
6 2 (1.54%) ClickUp
6 2 (1.54%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (0.77%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.77%) Figma
7 1 (0.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.62%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) Wireless
3 1 (0.77%) DHCP
3 1 (0.77%) DNS
3 1 (0.77%) Network Security
3 1 (0.77%) SSH
3 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.31%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.77%) MySQL
3 1 (0.77%) Power BI
3 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Git
1 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
1 4 (3.08%) JUnit
2 1 (0.77%) Axure RP
General
1 41 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.77%) Finance
3 21 (16.15%) Manufacturing
4 18 (13.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (12.31%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (7.69%) Marketing
7 9 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (6.15%) Law
9 5 (3.85%) Electronics
9 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.54%) Banking
12 1 (0.77%) Advertising
12 1 (0.77%) iGaming
12 1 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (21.54%) Developer
2 22 (16.92%) Senior
3 18 (13.85%) Analyst
3 18 (13.85%) Project Manager
4 14 (10.77%) Lead
4 14 (10.77%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (6.92%) C++ Developer
5 9 (6.92%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.92%) Hardware Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Data Scientist
6 8 (6.15%) Product Manager
6 8 (6.15%) Senior Data Analyst
6 8 (6.15%) Senior Data Scientist
6 8 (6.15%) Technical Leader
7 7 (5.38%) Electrical Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Games Developer
9 4 (3.08%) C# Developer
9 4 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) Laravel
2 8 (6.15%) .NET
2 8 (6.15%) HTML
2 8 (6.15%) React
2 8 (6.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 7 (5.38%) CSS
4 6 (4.62%) Vue
5 5 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.85%) DirectX
5 5 (3.85%) Unreal Engine
6 4 (3.08%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.08%) JWT
6 4 (3.08%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (3.08%) REST
6 4 (3.08%) RESTful
6 4 (3.08%) Spring
6 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.31%) OpenGL
8 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.77%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.15%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.92%) Operational Technology
4 8 (6.15%) Client/Server
4 8 (6.15%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (6.15%) Virtual Reality
5 7 (5.38%) Social Media
6 6 (4.62%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (3.85%) Clustering
7 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.85%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.08%) Educational Technology
9 3 (2.31%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (2.31%) Mobile Games
9 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.54%) IoT
10 2 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.54%) Video Editing
11 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.54%) Windows
2 5 (3.85%) Windows Vista
3 4 (3.08%) Linux
4 2 (1.54%) Unix
4 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.77%) VMS
5 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 22 (16.92%) Mathematics
3 18 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (13.08%) Actionable Insight
4 17 (13.08%) Project Management
5 16 (12.31%) Customer Requirements
5 16 (12.31%) ERP
5 16 (12.31%) Risk Management
5 16 (12.31%) Systems Engineering
6 15 (11.54%) Analytics
7 14 (10.77%) Statistical Modelling
8 13 (10.00%) Agile
8 13 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (9.23%) Data Science
10 11 (8.46%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (7.69%) DevOps
11 10 (7.69%) Strategic Planning
12 9 (6.92%) Machine Learning
13 8 (6.15%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.23%) SQL
2 16 (12.31%) C#
3 12 (9.23%) Python
4 11 (8.46%) C++
4 11 (8.46%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.69%) PHP
6 8 (6.15%) Rust
7 6 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.85%) Java
9 4 (3.08%) C
10 3 (2.31%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.77%) Perl
11 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (19.23%) Degree
2 21 (16.15%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) DBS Check
4 6 (4.62%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (2.31%) CCNA
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.54%) CCNA CyberOps
6 2 (1.54%) CCNP
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) GDPR
2 4 (3.08%) QA
3 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (5.38%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 5 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.77%) SCCM
3 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (13.85%) IFS
2 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.31%) Workday
4 5 (3.85%) Dell
4 5 (3.85%) EqualLogic
4 5 (3.85%) NetApp
4 5 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
4 5 (3.85%) VMware
5 4 (3.08%) SAP
6 3 (2.31%) Adobe
6 3 (2.31%) Apple
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco
7 2 (1.54%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.77%) F5