Games Jobs with Work from Home Options

Gaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 200 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 -109 +46
Permanent jobs citing Games 530 720 2,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.57% 1.76% 3.94%
As % of the General category 2.55% 2.66% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 363 488 1,082
10th Percentile £30,350 £37,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 -
UK median annual salary £54,900 £62,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -12.16% -8.76% +24.55%

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 permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,762 27,042 44,107
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.65% 66.01% 63.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15,064 18,006 24,541
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,949 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Games salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Games over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Games salary histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 59 (11.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.13%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2000
5 4 (0.75%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.75%) Blender
3 4 (0.75%) Simulink
3 4 (0.75%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.57%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.38%) Maya
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.38%) ZBrush
6 1 (0.19%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 39 (7.36%) Endur
2 3 (0.57%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.38%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 93 (17.55%) AWS
2 90 (16.98%) Azure
3 29 (5.47%) SaaS
4 27 (5.09%) Serverless
5 26 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (4.15%) GitHub
7 19 (3.58%) Amazon S3
8 17 (3.21%) dbt
9 16 (3.02%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.45%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (1.70%) Asana
11 9 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.51%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 8 (1.51%) GCP
13 6 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.13%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.94%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.85%) Wireless
2 21 (3.96%) Firewall
3 16 (3.02%) Broadband
4 14 (2.64%) DNS
5 12 (2.26%) Network Security
6 11 (2.08%) Internet
6 11 (2.08%) NAS
7 9 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.75%) LAN
9 3 (0.57%) DHCP
9 3 (0.57%) VPN
10 2 (0.38%) HTTP
10 2 (0.38%) WAN
11 1 (0.19%) SMS
11 1 (0.19%) SSH
11 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (20.38%) SQL Server
2 45 (8.49%) Relational Database
3 43 (8.11%) RDBMS
4 40 (7.55%) MySQL
5 27 (5.09%) Redis
6 25 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.02%) NoSQL
10 13 (2.45%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.70%) Big Data
11 9 (1.70%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.51%) Couchbase
12 8 (1.51%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.32%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.94%) Power BI
15 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Git
2 16 (3.02%) TeamCity
3 14 (2.64%) JIRA
4 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.75%) GitLab
5 4 (0.75%) Storybook
5 4 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.57%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.19%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.19%) XCTest
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 145 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 87 (16.42%) Finance
3 69 (13.02%) Marketing
4 68 (12.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.34%) Retail
7 20 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.21%) Aerospace
8 17 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.02%) Billing
10 15 (2.83%) Electronics
11 12 (2.26%) Advertising
12 11 (2.08%) Law
13 7 (1.32%) Legal
14 5 (0.94%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.75%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.38%) Music Industry
17 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (25.85%) Developer
2 124 (23.40%) Senior
3 69 (13.02%) .NET Developer
4 57 (10.75%) Project Manager
5 43 (8.11%) Senior Manager
6 39 (7.36%) Lead
7 36 (6.79%) C# Developer
8 35 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 34 (6.42%) Games Developer
10 32 (6.04%) Analyst
11 30 (5.66%) C# .NET Developer
12 28 (5.28%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.72%) Full Stack Developer
14 24 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (4.15%) Architect
15 22 (4.15%) Senior Developer
15 22 (4.15%) Software Manager
16 20 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (3.77%) Development Manager
16 20 (3.77%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (17.55%) .NET
2 78 (14.72%) .NET Core
3 77 (14.53%) HTML
4 67 (12.64%) ASP.NET
4 67 (12.64%) ASP.NET MVC
5 47 (8.87%) AngularJS
6 45 (8.49%) Node.js
6 45 (8.49%) React
7 44 (8.30%) HTML5
8 42 (7.92%) CSS
9 40 (7.55%) Entity Framework
10 33 (6.23%) RESTful
11 31 (5.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 28 (5.28%) .NET Framework
13 27 (5.09%) Vue
14 26 (4.91%) Blazor
15 23 (4.34%) CSS3
16 22 (4.15%) Kafka
17 20 (3.77%) LINQ
18 14 (2.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.57%) Client/Server
2 39 (7.36%) Swaptions
3 36 (6.79%) Online Games
4 33 (6.23%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.64%) Virtual Team
10 12 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (2.08%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.08%) IoT
12 10 (1.89%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.51%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.51%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.51%) Virtual Reality
14 7 (1.32%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.32%) Mobile Games
15 6 (1.13%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.43%) Windows
2 19 (3.58%) Linux
3 17 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.64%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.45%) Unix
6 12 (2.26%) VMS
7 9 (1.70%) Android
8 7 (1.32%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (29.62%) Agile
2 91 (17.17%) Full Stack Development
3 83 (15.66%) Project Management
4 80 (15.09%) Mentoring
5 74 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (13.77%) MVC
7 67 (12.64%) Decision-Making
8 57 (10.75%) Analytics
9 56 (10.57%) Software Engineering
10 55 (10.38%) Data Modelling
11 54 (10.19%) SDLC
12 53 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
13 52 (9.81%) Roadmaps
14 49 (9.25%) Computer Science
15 47 (8.87%) Scrum
16 46 (8.68%) Microservices
17 40 (7.55%) TDD
18 39 (7.36%) Business Transformation
19 37 (6.98%) Strategic Roadmap
20 35 (6.60%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 121 (22.83%) JavaScript
2 109 (20.57%) C#
3 94 (17.74%) SQL
4 77 (14.53%) Python
5 56 (10.57%) Java
6 46 (8.68%) TypeScript
7 39 (7.36%) VB
8 21 (3.96%) PHP
9 13 (2.45%) Go
10 12 (2.26%) Bash
10 12 (2.26%) C++
11 11 (2.08%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.89%) C
13 7 (1.32%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.75%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.38%) Rust
15 2 (0.38%) Scala
16 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.19%) R
16 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 130 (24.53%) Degree
2 78 (14.72%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.85%) DBS Check
5 17 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (0.94%) PhD
8 5 (0.94%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.94%) PMP
9 4 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CCNA
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CSPO
11 2 (0.38%) MBA
12 1 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.19%) ISEB
12 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.47%) QA
2 16 (3.02%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.08%) SOC 2
4 9 (1.70%) GDPR
5 6 (1.13%) SLA
6 3 (0.57%) NIST
7 2 (0.38%) ITGC
7 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (5.47%) Docker
2 23 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (5.66%) Terraform
2 26 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.26%) SCCM
4 12 (2.26%) WSUS
5 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.38%) Ansible
7 2 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 101 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.74%) Oracle
3 39 (7.36%) OpenLink
3 39 (7.36%) Sybase
3 39 (7.36%) TIBCO
4 32 (6.04%) Apple
5 26 (4.91%) Google
6 18 (3.40%) IFS
7 16 (3.02%) Workday
8 15 (2.83%) Adobe
9 11 (2.08%) Databricks
9 11 (2.08%) VMware
10 9 (1.70%) YouTube
11 8 (1.51%) Cisco
12 6 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.13%) Draytek
13 4 (0.75%) Dell
13 4 (0.75%) Logitech
13 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.75%) Salesforce