Games Jobs in the UK excluding London

Gaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 214 72 176
Rank change year-on-year -142 +104 +1
Permanent jobs citing Games 959 2,549 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.26% 4.51% 2.19%
As % of the General category 2.27% 6.63% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 733 350 936
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,375 £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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42,255 38,446 45,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.62% 68.00% 61.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27,055 18,057 24,502
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the UK excluding London

Games
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Games in the UK excluding London

Games
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Games in the UK excluding London

Games
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -109 285 £55,000 +3.29% 91
South West -15 174 £50,000 -9.09% 31
South East -95 153 £50,000 -16.67% 132
North West -136 144 £45,000 -10.00% 56
Midlands -148 136 £55,000 +57.14% 82
West Midlands -123 101 £55,000 +71.88% 57
East of England -75 86 £60,000 -14.29% 45
Scotland -152 79 £52,500 +7.69% 12
North East +50 74 £64,000 +42.22% 14
Yorkshire -91 67 £50,000 -16.67% 23
Wales -7 47 £50,000 - 9
East Midlands -104 35 £58,750 +6.82% 27
Northern Ireland +5 2 £70,000 - 7
Games
UK

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 80 (8.34%) Confluence
2 29 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.83%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2000
7 5 (0.52%) CMS
7 5 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.52%) WordPress
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.31%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) Apache
9 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.10%) TYPO3
Applications
1 20 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.36%) Maya
4 9 (0.94%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.83%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.73%) Blender
7 6 (0.63%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.63%) Sketch
7 6 (0.63%) ZBrush
8 4 (0.42%) MotionBuilder
8 4 (0.42%) Simulink
8 4 (0.42%) Stateflow
9 3 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.31%) Houdini
9 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.31%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.21%) InDesign
11 1 (0.10%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 170 (17.73%) Azure
2 153 (15.95%) AWS
3 59 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.07%) SaaS
5 26 (2.71%) Entra ID
6 25 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (2.61%) Serverless
7 21 (2.19%) Amazon S3
8 19 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (1.88%) GCP
10 16 (1.67%) dbt
11 15 (1.56%) Figma
12 14 (1.46%) GitHub
13 13 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (1.25%) Power Platform
15 11 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (0.83%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
17 8 (0.83%) Cloudflare
18 5 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.55%) Firewall
2 26 (2.71%) Wireless
3 14 (1.46%) Internet
4 10 (1.04%) Network Security
5 9 (0.94%) VPN
6 8 (0.83%) Broadband
6 8 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.63%) LAN
8 5 (0.52%) WAN
9 3 (0.31%) VSAN
10 2 (0.21%) 4G
10 2 (0.21%) DNS
10 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.21%) xDSL
11 1 (0.10%) DHCP
11 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.10%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.10%) SSH
11 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.10%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.34%) SQL Server
2 43 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (4.28%) MySQL
4 23 (2.40%) Redis
5 21 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.36%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.25%) Power BI
10 11 (1.15%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.04%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.94%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.83%) Couchbase
13 8 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.73%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.42%) Data Lake
17 3 (0.31%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 128 (13.35%) Git
2 95 (9.91%) JIRA
3 75 (7.82%) Visual Studio
4 72 (7.51%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.15%) Sourcetree
6 24 (2.50%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.67%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.25%) Selenium
9 10 (1.04%) Subversion
10 5 (0.52%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.42%) gulp
11 4 (0.42%) JUnit
11 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.31%) GitLab
12 3 (0.31%) PostCSS
12 3 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
12 3 (0.31%) rollup.js
12 3 (0.31%) Vite
13 2 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 229 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 149 (15.54%) Finance
3 93 (9.70%) Presentation Skills
4 90 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (5.32%) Manufacturing
5 51 (5.32%) Marketing
6 48 (5.01%) Law
7 39 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (3.86%) Retail
9 31 (3.23%) Banking
10 26 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.50%) Electronics
12 20 (2.09%) Aerospace
12 20 (2.09%) Investment Banking
12 20 (2.09%) Legal
13 18 (1.88%) Billing
14 17 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.56%) Military
15 15 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 322 (33.58%) Developer
2 174 (18.14%) Senior
3 135 (14.08%) Games Developer
4 86 (8.97%) .NET Developer
5 74 (7.72%) 3D Developer
6 71 (7.40%) Unity 3D Developer
7 67 (6.99%) Project Manager
8 65 (6.78%) C# Developer
8 65 (6.78%) Senior Developer
9 63 (6.57%) Lead
10 52 (5.42%) Analyst
10 52 (5.42%) Software Engineer
11 49 (5.11%) C# .NET Developer
12 38 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
13 34 (3.55%) Full Stack Developer
14 31 (3.23%) Data Engineer
14 31 (3.23%) Senior Games Developer
14 31 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
15 28 (2.92%) Architect
16 26 (2.71%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (13.45%) .NET
2 111 (11.57%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 79 (8.24%) AngularJS
3 79 (8.24%) HTML
4 75 (7.82%) .NET Core
5 62 (6.47%) React
6 59 (6.15%) ASP.NET
7 55 (5.74%) ASP.NET MVC
8 54 (5.63%) RESTful
9 53 (5.53%) Vue
10 51 (5.32%) ASP.NET Web API
11 48 (5.01%) CSS
12 46 (4.80%) Node.js
13 38 (3.96%) Entity Framework
13 38 (3.96%) HTML5
14 37 (3.86%) Unreal Engine
15 31 (3.23%) .NET Framework
16 30 (3.13%) Laravel
17 23 (2.40%) REST
18 19 (1.98%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.80%) Virtual Reality
2 57 (5.94%) Client/Server
3 46 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (3.96%) Online Games
5 29 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.61%) Animation
7 23 (2.40%) IoT
8 21 (2.19%) Cloud Native
9 20 (2.09%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.88%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.77%) Blockchain
11 17 (1.77%) Social Media
12 16 (1.67%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.56%) Driving Licence
13 15 (1.56%) Operational Technology
14 14 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (8.97%) Windows
2 23 (2.40%) Linux
3 21 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.15%) Unix
6 10 (1.04%) Android
6 10 (1.04%) VMS
7 9 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.10%) CentOS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (20.23%) Agile
2 164 (17.10%) Software Engineering
3 142 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (12.72%) DevOps
5 120 (12.51%) Full Stack Development
5 120 (12.51%) Scrum
6 107 (11.16%) Computer Science
6 107 (11.16%) Use Case
7 102 (10.64%) Mathematics
8 99 (10.32%) Design Patterns
9 85 (8.86%) Project Management
10 80 (8.34%) Mentoring
11 76 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
12 71 (7.40%) UML
13 70 (7.30%) MVC
14 68 (7.09%) Decision-Making
15 65 (6.78%) Analytics
16 61 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence
17 59 (6.15%) Coaching
18 58 (6.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 248 (25.86%) C#
2 181 (18.87%) JavaScript
3 142 (14.81%) SQL
4 124 (12.93%) Python
5 71 (7.40%) TypeScript
6 50 (5.21%) PHP
7 40 (4.17%) C++
8 39 (4.07%) Java
9 24 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.56%) RPG
12 9 (0.94%) C
12 9 (0.94%) Rust
13 7 (0.73%) Go
14 6 (0.63%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.52%) Groovy
16 3 (0.31%) Bash
16 3 (0.31%) VB
17 2 (0.21%) VB.NET
18 1 (0.10%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 261 (27.22%) Degree
2 170 (17.73%) Security Cleared
3 114 (11.89%) SC Cleared
4 83 (8.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.82%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.36%) CCNA
7 13 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.04%) CCNA CyberOps
8 10 (1.04%) CCNP
8 10 (1.04%) MCP
8 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.83%) A+ Certification
9 8 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
10 7 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (0.63%) ISEB
11 6 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.38%) QA
2 41 (4.28%) GDPR
3 16 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.25%) ISO 9001
4 12 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 11 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.52%) SLA
7 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.21%) GRC
8 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.10%) COSHH
9 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.10%) NCSC
9 1 (0.10%) NIST
9 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (6.26%) Docker
2 37 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (2.50%) Terraform
3 23 (2.40%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.25%) SCCM
5 10 (1.04%) WSUS
6 8 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.31%) Ansible
8 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.10%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) QRadar
9 1 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 222 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.09%) Cisco
3 19 (1.98%) IFS
4 18 (1.88%) Apple
5 17 (1.77%) Workday
6 16 (1.67%) Google
7 14 (1.46%) VMware
8 13 (1.36%) Oracle
9 11 (1.15%) Adobe
10 10 (1.04%) Dell
10 10 (1.04%) Draytek
11 7 (0.73%) F5
11 7 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.52%) Freshdesk
12 5 (0.52%) NetApp
12 5 (0.52%) Nimble Storage
12 5 (0.52%) SAP
12 5 (0.52%) SonicWALL
12 5 (0.52%) Sophos
12 5 (0.52%) WatchGuard