Games Developer Jobs

Game Developer
UK

The median Game Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
9 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 906 1207
Rank change year-on-year +148 +301 -334
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Developer 164 39 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.042% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.046% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 160 37 22
10th Percentile £27,500 £41,250 £37,875
25th Percentile £39,720 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -5.45% +34.15%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £85,000 £76,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Games Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Games Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Games Developer in the UK

Games Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Games Developer in the UK

Games Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games Developer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Games Developer in the UK

Games Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +135 146 £50,000 -23.08% 9
UK excluding London +50 126 £50,000 +11.11% 5
South West +28 59 £50,000 +17.65%
North of England +56 37 £50,000 +14.29% 1
Work from Home +67 35 £50,000 -23.08% 9
London +81 34 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North East - 21 £60,000 - 1
North West +3 15 £41,235 -8.37%
Wales - 13 £60,000 - 1
South East -3 9 £50,000 -6.98% 1
Midlands - 7 £63,750 - 2
East Midlands - 4 £52,500 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
Yorkshire +63 1 £55,000 +29.41%
Scotland - 1 £50,000 -

Games Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Games Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Games Developer in the job title.

1 164 (100.00%) Games
2 129 (78.66%) C#
3 86 (52.44%) Degree
4 82 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 78 (47.56%) Software Engineering
6 71 (43.29%) .NET
7 68 (41.46%) JavaScript
8 66 (40.24%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 63 (38.41%) Virtual Reality
10 60 (36.59%) Git
10 60 (36.59%) Design Patterns
11 59 (35.98%) SC Cleared
11 59 (35.98%) Security Cleared
11 59 (35.98%) JIRA
11 59 (35.98%) Use Case
11 59 (35.98%) Visual Studio
11 59 (35.98%) UML
11 59 (35.98%) Scrum
11 59 (35.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 59 (35.98%) DevOps
11 59 (35.98%) Sourcetree
11 59 (35.98%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (35.98%) Bitbucket
11 59 (35.98%) Confluence
12 53 (32.32%) Multithreading
13 51 (31.10%) Full Stack Development
14 48 (29.27%) Azure
15 45 (27.44%) RESTful
15 45 (27.44%) ASP.NET Web API
15 45 (27.44%) AngularJS

Games Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (35.98%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 48 (29.27%) Azure
2 18 (10.98%) AWS
3 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (20.73%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.59%) MySQL
3 17 (10.37%) Redis
4 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 60 (36.59%) Git
2 59 (35.98%) Bitbucket
2 59 (35.98%) JIRA
2 59 (35.98%) Sourcetree
2 59 (35.98%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.05%) gulp
3 5 (3.05%) webpack
4 4 (2.44%) Grunt
General
1 164 (100.00%) Games
2 59 (35.98%) Presentation Skills
3 20 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.61%) Finance
6 1 (0.61%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (43.29%) .NET
2 66 (40.24%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 45 (27.44%) AngularJS
3 45 (27.44%) ASP.NET Web API
3 45 (27.44%) RESTful
4 35 (21.34%) HTML
5 28 (17.07%) .NET Core
6 26 (15.85%) HTML5
7 23 (14.02%) ASP.NET
7 23 (14.02%) ASP.NET MVC
8 20 (12.20%) LINQ
9 17 (10.37%) Kafka
10 15 (9.15%) JSON
11 12 (7.32%) Unreal Engine
12 11 (6.71%) Pixi.js
13 7 (4.27%) Node.js
13 7 (4.27%) WebGL
14 6 (3.66%) Electron
14 6 (3.66%) Redux
14 6 (3.66%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (38.41%) Virtual Reality
2 9 (5.49%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.44%) Animation
4 4 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.44%) Online Gambling
5 3 (1.83%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.22%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (1.22%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
1 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (47.56%) Software Engineering
2 60 (36.59%) Design Patterns
3 59 (35.98%) DevOps
3 59 (35.98%) Scrum
3 59 (35.98%) UML
3 59 (35.98%) Use Case
4 53 (32.32%) Multithreading
5 51 (31.10%) Full Stack Development
6 29 (17.68%) Microservices
7 27 (16.46%) Agile
7 27 (16.46%) Computer Science
8 23 (14.02%) MVC
9 20 (12.20%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10 17 (10.37%) SOLID
11 13 (7.93%) Mathematics
12 11 (6.71%) Game Development
13 9 (5.49%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.49%) Statistics
14 8 (4.88%) Low Latency
15 6 (3.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 129 (78.66%) C#
2 68 (41.46%) JavaScript
3 9 (5.49%) PHP
4 6 (3.66%) SQL
5 2 (1.22%) C
5 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.61%) RPG
6 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (52.44%) Degree
2 59 (35.98%) BPSS Clearance
2 59 (35.98%) SC Cleared
2 59 (35.98%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.37%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Docker
Vendors
1 82 (50.00%) Microsoft