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 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 204 208 89
Rank change year-on-year +4 -119 +49
Permanent jobs citing Games 533 668 3,000
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.55% 1.68% 4.09%
As % of the General category 2.54% 2.55% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 365 448 1,091
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,139 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +23.89%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -6.72% +21.82%

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 20,988 26,164 46,919
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.09% 65.78% 64.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,136 17,428 24,959
10th Percentile £31,800 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,254 £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 £82,548 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £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 28 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 (11.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.13%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2000
5 4 (0.75%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) 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 (1.31%) 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 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.56%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.38%) Maya
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 38 (7.13%) Endur
2 3 (0.56%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.38%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 97 (18.20%) AWS
2 90 (16.89%) Azure
3 28 (5.25%) SaaS
4 27 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (4.88%) Serverless
6 21 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (3.94%) GitHub
7 19 (3.56%) Amazon S3
8 16 (3.00%) dbt
9 15 (2.81%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.44%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.69%) Asana
11 9 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.50%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 8 (1.50%) GCP
13 6 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.94%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.94%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.00%) Wireless
2 20 (3.75%) Firewall
3 16 (3.00%) Broadband
4 14 (2.63%) Internet
5 13 (2.44%) DNS
6 12 (2.25%) Network Security
7 11 (2.06%) NAS
7 11 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.56%) LAN
8 3 (0.56%) VPN
9 2 (0.38%) DHCP
9 2 (0.38%) HTTP
10 1 (0.19%) SMS
10 1 (0.19%) SSH
10 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (20.64%) SQL Server
2 44 (8.26%) Relational Database
3 43 (8.07%) RDBMS
4 38 (7.13%) MySQL
5 27 (5.07%) Redis
6 26 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.50%) Couchbase
12 7 (1.31%) Big Data
12 7 (1.31%) Data Mining
13 6 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.13%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.94%) Power BI
14 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (3.38%) Git
2 16 (3.00%) TeamCity
3 12 (2.25%) JIRA
4 8 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.75%) Storybook
5 4 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.56%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.56%) 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%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.19%) XCTest
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 141 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.70%) Finance
3 70 (13.13%) Marketing
4 68 (12.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.69%) Retail
7 20 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.38%) Billing
9 17 (3.19%) Aerospace
9 17 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.00%) Electronics
11 10 (1.88%) Advertising
11 10 (1.88%) Law
12 7 (1.31%) Legal
13 5 (0.94%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.75%) Agriculture
15 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.38%) iGaming
16 2 (0.38%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 142 (26.64%) Developer
2 126 (23.64%) Senior
3 71 (13.32%) .NET Developer
4 57 (10.69%) Project Manager
5 43 (8.07%) Senior Manager
6 40 (7.50%) Lead
7 38 (7.13%) C# Developer
8 37 (6.94%) Software Engineer
9 35 (6.57%) Games Developer
10 32 (6.00%) Analyst
11 31 (5.82%) C# .NET Developer
12 26 (4.88%) Data Engineer
12 26 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
13 25 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (4.13%) Architect
14 22 (4.13%) Senior Developer
14 22 (4.13%) Software Manager
15 20 (3.75%) Development Manager
15 20 (3.75%) Software Architect
15 20 (3.75%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (18.57%) .NET
2 82 (15.38%) .NET Core
3 77 (14.45%) HTML
4 70 (13.13%) ASP.NET
5 68 (12.76%) ASP.NET MVC
6 50 (9.38%) AngularJS
7 47 (8.82%) React
8 45 (8.44%) Node.js
9 44 (8.26%) HTML5
10 42 (7.88%) CSS
11 41 (7.69%) Entity Framework
12 34 (6.38%) RESTful
13 32 (6.00%) .NET Framework
13 32 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 29 (5.44%) Vue
15 27 (5.07%) Blazor
16 23 (4.32%) CSS3
17 20 (3.75%) LINQ
18 16 (3.00%) Kafka
19 15 (2.81%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.51%) Client/Server
2 39 (7.32%) Online Games
3 38 (7.13%) Swaptions
4 33 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.19%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.00%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.25%) IoT
9 12 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
9 12 (2.25%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.06%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.88%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.69%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.50%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.31%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.31%) Mobile Games
14 7 (1.31%) Virtual Reality
15 6 (1.13%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.38%) Windows
2 16 (3.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.81%) Linux
4 14 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.44%) Unix
6 12 (2.25%) VMS
7 9 (1.69%) Android
8 7 (1.31%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (29.64%) Agile
2 94 (17.64%) Full Stack Development
3 82 (15.38%) Project Management
4 79 (14.82%) Mentoring
5 75 (14.07%) MVC
6 73 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (12.57%) Decision-Making
8 56 (10.51%) Software Engineering
9 55 (10.32%) Analytics
10 54 (10.13%) Data Modelling
11 52 (9.76%) Creative Thinking
11 52 (9.76%) Roadmaps
12 51 (9.57%) SDLC
13 49 (9.19%) Scrum
14 48 (9.01%) Computer Science
15 46 (8.63%) Microservices
16 43 (8.07%) TDD
17 38 (7.13%) Business Transformation
18 37 (6.94%) Strategic Roadmap
19 35 (6.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 122 (22.89%) JavaScript
2 115 (21.58%) C#
3 90 (16.89%) SQL
4 72 (13.51%) Python
5 52 (9.76%) Java
6 48 (9.01%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.13%) VB
8 20 (3.75%) PHP
9 14 (2.63%) Go
10 11 (2.06%) Bash
10 11 (2.06%) C++
10 11 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.88%) C
12 6 (1.13%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.75%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.38%) Scala
15 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.19%) Perl
15 1 (0.19%) R
15 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 131 (24.58%) Degree
2 78 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.19%) DBS Check
5 17 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.63%) 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%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.38%) 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 (5.44%) QA
2 16 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.06%) SOC 2
4 9 (1.69%) GDPR
5 5 (0.94%) SLA
6 3 (0.56%) 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 32 (6.00%) Docker
2 24 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (5.07%) Terraform
2 24 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.25%) SCCM
3 12 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.25%) WSUS
4 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.38%) Ansible
6 2 (0.38%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 103 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.50%) Oracle
3 38 (7.13%) OpenLink
3 38 (7.13%) Sybase
3 38 (7.13%) TIBCO
4 32 (6.00%) Apple
5 27 (5.07%) Google
6 18 (3.38%) IFS
7 16 (3.00%) Workday
8 15 (2.81%) Adobe
9 11 (2.06%) VMware
10 9 (1.69%) Databricks
11 8 (1.50%) Cisco
12 7 (1.31%) YouTube
13 6 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.13%) Draytek
14 4 (0.75%) Dell
14 4 (0.75%) Instagram
14 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.75%) Salesforce