Games Contracts in London

Gaming
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 375 326
Rank change year-on-year +49 -49 +12
Contract jobs citing Games 73 107 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.43% 0.77%
As % of the General category 0.66% 0.67% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 87 234
10th Percentile £267 £250 £400
25th Percentile £325 £322 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £675 £664 £713
England median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.83% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £38.05 - £40.74
25th Percentile £40.75 - £41.47
Median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +37.54% +43.03%
75th Percentile £44.25 £67.50 £46.41
90th Percentile £46.95 £72.00 £47.81
England median hourly rate £41.21 £60.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -31.32% +37.54% +51.21%

All General Skills
London

Games falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,074 15,940 23,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.65% 63.38% 60.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,915 11,632 17,093
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 200 275
10th Percentile £15.95 £16.12 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.14 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £47.81 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.20 £70.00 £65.35
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.54 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.14% +35.73% +7.14%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in London

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in London.

Daily rate trend for Games in London

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in London

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Games in London.

Hourly rate trend for Games in London

Games
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +27 12 £600 -0.83% 44
West London +21 3 £60 - 28
East London - 2 £540 - 4
Games
England

Games
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 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Maya
2 2 (2.74%) NUKE
3 1 (1.37%) 3ds Max
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.37%) Blender
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.37%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.59%) AWS
2 5 (6.85%) Figma
2 5 (6.85%) SaaS
3 2 (2.74%) Azure
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.37%) dbt
4 1 (1.37%) GCP
4 1 (1.37%) GitHub
4 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.37%) Serverless
4 1 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.37%) Unqork
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Internet
1 2 (2.74%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (1.37%) MySQL
1 1 (1.37%) Power BI
1 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 27 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Marketing
3 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Finance
3 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Back Office
4 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Retail
4 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.37%) Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.37%) French Language
5 1 (1.37%) German Language
5 1 (1.37%) Legal
5 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Developer
2 12 (16.44%) Designer
3 9 (12.33%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Lead
5 7 (9.59%) UX Designer
6 6 (8.22%) Games Designer
7 5 (6.85%) C++ Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) UI Designer
7 5 (6.85%) VB Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Technical Writer
8 4 (5.48%) UI/UX Designer
9 3 (4.11%) Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Designer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Games Designer
9 3 (4.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.40%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 16 (21.92%) Unreal Engine
3 4 (5.48%) FFmpeg
4 3 (4.11%) CSS
4 3 (4.11%) HTML
4 3 (4.11%) React
4 3 (4.11%) WebGL
5 2 (2.74%) .NET
5 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.74%) Flask
5 2 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.74%) PyQt
5 2 (2.74%) PySide
5 2 (2.74%) REST
5 2 (2.74%) Visualforce
6 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.37%) Kafka
6 1 (1.37%) Playwright
6 1 (1.37%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.37%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Virtual Reality
2 11 (15.07%) Augmented Reality
3 9 (12.33%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (9.59%) Mobile Games
5 5 (6.85%) Animation
6 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.11%) Social Media
7 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.74%) Digital Media
7 2 (2.74%) Motion Graphics
7 2 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.37%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.37%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.37%) Online Games
8 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.37%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Android
1 5 (6.85%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.07%) Mentoring
2 11 (15.07%) User Experience
2 11 (15.07%) UX Design
3 9 (12.33%) Agile
3 9 (12.33%) Computer Science
3 9 (12.33%) Data Protection
3 9 (12.33%) Game Development
3 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (9.59%) Project Management
4 7 (9.59%) Web Development
5 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
6 5 (6.85%) Android Development
6 5 (6.85%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (6.85%) Prototyping
7 4 (5.48%) Computer Vision
7 4 (5.48%) Data Science
7 4 (5.48%) Scrum
7 4 (5.48%) User Stories
7 4 (5.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.44%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) C#
2 8 (10.96%) C++
3 5 (6.85%) SQL
3 5 (6.85%) VB
4 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.48%) Rust
5 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.74%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.74%) Java
7 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.74%) PMP
4 1 (1.37%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (1.37%) CISM
4 1 (1.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe
3 1 (1.37%) Apple
3 1 (1.37%) Databricks
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle
3 1 (1.37%) SAP
3 1 (1.37%) VMware
3 1 (1.37%) Workday