Games Jobs in England

Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -150 +11 +69
Permanent jobs citing Games 1,154 3,350 5,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.27% 3.98% 3.76%
As % of the General category 2.20% 5.87% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 888 707 1,589
10th Percentile £27,500 £34,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,720 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -6.72% +21.82%
75th Percentile £69,914 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £103,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 52,555 57,045 91,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.76% 67.80% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 36,197 31,816 45,649
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,282 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in England

Games
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Games in England

Games
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in England

Games
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -136 315 £65,000 -4.41% 260
North of England -109 285 £55,000 +3.29% 92
South West -15 174 £50,000 -9.09% 31
South East -95 153 £50,000 -16.67% 133
North West -136 144 £45,000 -10.00% 57
Midlands -148 136 £55,000 +57.14% 84
West Midlands -123 101 £55,000 +71.88% 59
East of England -75 86 £60,000 -14.29% 44
North East +50 74 £64,000 +42.22% 14
Yorkshire -91 67 £50,000 -16.67% 23
East Midlands -104 35 £58,750 +6.82% 27
Games
UK

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 81 (7.02%) Confluence
2 75 (6.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.69%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2000
6 6 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.52%) WordPress
7 5 (0.43%) CMS
7 5 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.26%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache
9 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.087%) SAS
10 1 (0.087%) TYPO3
Applications
1 24 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.39%) AutoCAD
3 13 (1.13%) Maya
4 11 (0.95%) Blender
4 11 (0.95%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.69%) Revit
6 8 (0.69%) Sketch
7 7 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.52%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.52%) ZBrush
9 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.35%) MotionBuilder
10 4 (0.35%) Simulink
10 4 (0.35%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.26%) Houdini
11 3 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 41 (3.55%) Endur
2 5 (0.43%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.26%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 172 (14.90%) AWS
2 152 (13.17%) Azure
3 68 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (3.12%) SaaS
5 32 (2.77%) Serverless
6 27 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (1.99%) Amazon S3
8 21 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (1.82%) GitHub
8 21 (1.82%) Power Platform
9 17 (1.47%) Figma
10 16 (1.39%) dbt
11 14 (1.21%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (1.21%) Entra ID
11 14 (1.21%) Google Workspace
12 10 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 9 (0.78%) Asana
13 9 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.69%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.25%) Firewall
2 38 (3.29%) Wireless
3 19 (1.65%) Broadband
4 16 (1.39%) Internet
5 15 (1.30%) DNS
6 14 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.04%) LAN
8 11 (0.95%) NAS
8 11 (0.95%) VPN
9 9 (0.78%) Network Security
9 9 (0.78%) WAN
10 3 (0.26%) BGP
10 3 (0.26%) DHCP
10 3 (0.26%) VSAN
11 2 (0.17%) 4G
11 2 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) HTTP
11 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.17%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 71 (6.15%) MySQL
3 51 (4.42%) Redis
4 49 (4.25%) Relational Database
5 47 (4.07%) RDBMS
6 36 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.82%) Power BI
9 20 (1.73%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.39%) Tableau
12 9 (0.78%) Big Data
12 9 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.78%) DynamoDB
12 9 (0.78%) Looker
13 8 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.69%) Couchbase
14 7 (0.61%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 126 (10.92%) Git
2 98 (8.49%) JIRA
3 75 (6.50%) Visual Studio
4 72 (6.24%) Bitbucket
5 59 (5.11%) Sourcetree
6 17 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 14 (1.21%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.87%) Subversion
9 8 (0.69%) gulp
10 6 (0.52%) Grunt
11 5 (0.43%) JUnit
11 5 (0.43%) webpack
11 5 (0.43%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.35%) Storybook
12 4 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.26%) PostCSS
13 3 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.26%) rollup.js
13 3 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 282 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 131 (11.35%) Finance
3 89 (7.71%) Marketing
4 77 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 76 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 47 (4.07%) Retail
8 32 (2.77%) Legal
9 27 (2.34%) Law
10 26 (2.25%) Advertising
11 22 (1.91%) Electronics
11 22 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.73%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.56%) Billing
13 18 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.30%) Military
15 14 (1.21%) Public Sector
15 14 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.13%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 358 (31.02%) Developer
2 240 (20.80%) Senior
3 155 (13.43%) Games Developer
4 106 (9.19%) .NET Developer
5 87 (7.54%) Lead
6 84 (7.28%) Senior Developer
7 74 (6.41%) 3D Developer
7 74 (6.41%) Project Manager
8 71 (6.15%) Unity 3D Developer
9 59 (5.11%) Analyst
9 59 (5.11%) C# Developer
10 47 (4.07%) Senior Manager
11 46 (3.99%) Software Engineer
12 45 (3.90%) Senior Games Developer
13 43 (3.73%) C# .NET Developer
14 39 (3.38%) Data Engineer
15 37 (3.21%) Lead Developer
16 35 (3.03%) Architect
17 33 (2.86%) Full Stack Developer
18 32 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (13.43%) .NET
2 120 (10.40%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 91 (7.89%) HTML
4 83 (7.19%) .NET Core
5 67 (5.81%) ASP.NET
6 63 (5.46%) React
7 62 (5.37%) AngularJS
7 62 (5.37%) ASP.NET MVC
8 58 (5.03%) CSS
9 57 (4.94%) Unreal Engine
10 56 (4.85%) Node.js
11 51 (4.42%) RESTful
12 48 (4.16%) Vue
13 46 (3.99%) HTML5
14 45 (3.90%) ASP.NET Web API
14 45 (3.90%) Entity Framework
15 37 (3.21%) Kafka
16 34 (2.95%) .NET Framework
17 27 (2.34%) Blazor
17 27 (2.34%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.01%) Virtual Reality
2 61 (5.29%) Client/Server
3 48 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (3.55%) Online Games
4 41 (3.55%) Swaptions
5 39 (3.38%) Algorithms
6 35 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.95%) Animation
8 25 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (2.17%) Social Media
9 24 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.08%) IoT
10 23 (1.99%) Operational Technology
10 23 (1.99%) Product Ownership
11 22 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
12 21 (1.82%) Mobile App
13 20 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
14 19 (1.65%) Augmented Reality
14 19 (1.65%) Blockchain
15 17 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 113 (9.79%) Windows
2 38 (3.29%) Windows Server
3 34 (2.95%) Linux
4 24 (2.08%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.56%) Android
6 14 (1.21%) Windows 10
7 13 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.69%) Unix
8 8 (0.69%) VMS
9 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.35%) Windows Vista
11 3 (0.26%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.087%) CentOS
13 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (17.24%) Agile
2 182 (15.77%) Software Engineering
3 176 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (11.09%) Scrum
5 119 (10.31%) DevOps
5 119 (10.31%) Full Stack Development
6 111 (9.62%) Computer Science
6 111 (9.62%) Mentoring
7 107 (9.27%) Project Management
8 101 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
8 101 (8.75%) Design Patterns
9 95 (8.23%) Mathematics
10 87 (7.54%) Use Case
11 84 (7.28%) Roadmaps
12 83 (7.19%) Analytics
13 78 (6.76%) MVC
14 76 (6.59%) Decision-Making
15 71 (6.15%) UML
16 64 (5.55%) IT Strategy
17 62 (5.37%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 269 (23.31%) C#
2 174 (15.08%) SQL
3 164 (14.21%) JavaScript
4 121 (10.49%) Python
5 68 (5.89%) TypeScript
6 65 (5.63%) Java
7 46 (3.99%) PHP
8 44 (3.81%) VB
9 40 (3.47%) C++
10 24 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.47%) C
11 17 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.30%) Bash
12 15 (1.30%) RPG
13 13 (1.13%) Go
14 8 (0.69%) Rust
15 6 (0.52%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.43%) R
17 2 (0.17%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 314 (27.21%) Degree
2 163 (14.12%) Security Cleared
3 112 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 85 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (3.64%) DBS Check
6 41 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.77%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.21%) CCNA
10 12 (1.04%) CCNP
11 10 (0.87%) CCNA CyberOps
11 10 (0.87%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.87%) MCP
11 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.69%) A+ Certification
13 7 (0.61%) Chartered Engineer
13 7 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.52%) ISEB
14 6 (0.52%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.90%) GDPR
2 30 (2.60%) QA
3 26 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.39%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 11 (0.95%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.69%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.69%) SLA
9 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.26%) NIST
11 2 (0.17%) GRC
11 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.17%) ITGC
11 2 (0.17%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.087%) COSHH
12 1 (0.087%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.087%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.087%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 47 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.90%) Docker
3 25 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.087%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (2.77%) Terraform
2 27 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.78%) QRadar
5 9 (0.78%) SCCM
6 8 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.61%) WSUS
8 3 (0.26%) Ansible
9 2 (0.17%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.17%) Puppet
10 1 (0.087%) Grafana
10 1 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.087%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.087%) WMI
10 1 (0.087%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 245 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.90%) Oracle
3 43 (3.73%) Apple
4 41 (3.55%) OpenLink
4 41 (3.55%) Sybase
4 41 (3.55%) TIBCO
5 39 (3.38%) Google
6 32 (2.77%) Adobe
7 25 (2.17%) VMware
8 24 (2.08%) Cisco
9 19 (1.65%) IFS
10 17 (1.47%) Workday
11 11 (0.95%) Autodesk
12 10 (0.87%) Dell
12 10 (0.87%) Draytek
13 9 (0.78%) Darktrace
13 9 (0.78%) Databricks
13 9 (0.78%) F5
14 8 (0.69%) YouTube
15 7 (0.61%) Instagram