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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 221 88
Rank change year-on-year +10 -133 +47
Permanent jobs citing Games 541 584 3,126
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.53% 1.55% 4.14%
As % of the General category 2.54% 2.36% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 367 436 1,094
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £73,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 £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
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 21,282 24,746 48,706
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.33% 65.57% 64.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15,181 16,952 25,331
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £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 9 June 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 57 (10.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.11%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2000
5 4 (0.74%) Apache
6 3 (0.55%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.92%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.74%) Blender
3 4 (0.74%) Simulink
3 4 (0.74%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.55%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.55%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.37%) Maya
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) ZBrush
6 1 (0.18%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (6.65%) Endur
2 3 (0.55%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.37%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 99 (18.30%) AWS
2 92 (17.01%) Azure
3 29 (5.36%) SaaS
4 27 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (4.81%) Serverless
6 21 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (3.88%) GitHub
7 19 (3.51%) Amazon S3
8 16 (2.96%) dbt
9 15 (2.77%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.40%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.66%) Asana
11 9 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.48%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 8 (1.48%) GCP
13 6 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.92%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.92%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.91%) Wireless
2 20 (3.70%) Firewall
3 16 (2.96%) Broadband
4 14 (2.59%) Internet
5 13 (2.40%) DNS
6 12 (2.22%) Network Security
7 11 (2.03%) NAS
7 11 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.55%) HTTP
8 3 (0.55%) LAN
8 3 (0.55%) VPN
9 2 (0.37%) DHCP
10 1 (0.18%) SAN
10 1 (0.18%) SMS
10 1 (0.18%) SSH
10 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (20.15%) SQL Server
2 43 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 42 (7.76%) RDBMS
4 38 (7.02%) MySQL
5 27 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (4.99%) Redis
6 23 (4.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (2.77%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.77%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.66%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.48%) Couchbase
11 7 (1.29%) Big Data
11 7 (1.29%) Data Mining
12 6 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.11%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.92%) Power BI
13 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.70%) Git
2 16 (2.96%) TeamCity
3 12 (2.22%) JIRA
4 8 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.74%) Storybook
5 4 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.55%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.18%) Appium
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) Grunt
8 1 (0.18%) gulp
8 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.18%) webpack
8 1 (0.18%) XCTest
8 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 143 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.45%) Finance
3 68 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 68 (12.57%) Marketing
4 42 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.62%) Retail
6 21 (3.88%) Manufacturing
7 18 (3.33%) Billing
7 18 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.14%) Aerospace
9 16 (2.96%) Electronics
10 10 (1.85%) Advertising
11 9 (1.66%) Law
12 8 (1.48%) Legal
13 5 (0.92%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.74%) Agriculture
15 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.55%) iGaming
15 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.37%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 148 (27.36%) Developer
2 128 (23.66%) Senior
3 71 (13.12%) .NET Developer
4 58 (10.72%) Project Manager
5 42 (7.76%) Lead
5 42 (7.76%) Senior Manager
6 39 (7.21%) Software Engineer
7 37 (6.84%) C# Developer
8 35 (6.47%) Games Developer
9 31 (5.73%) Analyst
9 31 (5.73%) C# .NET Developer
10 27 (4.99%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (4.81%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 25 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (3.88%) Architect
13 21 (3.88%) Software Manager
14 20 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (3.51%) Development Manager
15 19 (3.51%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (18.67%) .NET
2 83 (15.34%) .NET Core
3 78 (14.42%) HTML
4 70 (12.94%) ASP.NET
5 68 (12.57%) ASP.NET MVC
6 52 (9.61%) AngularJS
7 50 (9.24%) React
8 45 (8.32%) HTML5
8 45 (8.32%) Node.js
9 43 (7.95%) CSS
10 41 (7.58%) Entity Framework
11 36 (6.65%) RESTful
12 33 (6.10%) .NET Framework
12 33 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
13 30 (5.55%) Vue
14 27 (4.99%) Blazor
15 24 (4.44%) CSS3
16 20 (3.70%) LINQ
17 16 (2.96%) Kafka
18 15 (2.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.54%) Client/Server
2 41 (7.58%) Online Games
3 36 (6.65%) Swaptions
4 34 (6.28%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.22%) IoT
9 12 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
9 12 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.03%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.85%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.66%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.48%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.29%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.29%) Mobile Games
15 6 (1.11%) Cyberattack
15 6 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.24%) Windows
2 16 (2.96%) Linux
2 16 (2.96%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.59%) Mac OS
3 14 (2.59%) Unix
4 12 (2.22%) VMS
5 9 (1.66%) Android
6 7 (1.29%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.55%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (29.76%) Agile
2 96 (17.74%) Full Stack Development
3 83 (15.34%) Mentoring
3 83 (15.34%) Project Management
4 77 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (13.86%) MVC
6 67 (12.38%) Decision-Making
7 57 (10.54%) Software Engineering
8 55 (10.17%) Analytics
9 52 (9.61%) Data Modelling
10 50 (9.24%) Creative Thinking
10 50 (9.24%) Scrum
10 50 (9.24%) SDLC
11 49 (9.06%) Computer Science
11 49 (9.06%) Roadmaps
12 47 (8.69%) Microservices
13 44 (8.13%) TDD
14 36 (6.65%) Business Transformation
15 35 (6.47%) BDD
15 35 (6.47%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 127 (23.48%) JavaScript
2 116 (21.44%) C#
3 91 (16.82%) SQL
4 74 (13.68%) Python
5 51 (9.43%) Java
6 49 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 36 (6.65%) VB
8 20 (3.70%) PHP
9 15 (2.77%) C++
9 15 (2.77%) Go
10 11 (2.03%) Bash
10 11 (2.03%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.85%) C
12 6 (1.11%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.74%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.37%) Scala
15 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
15 1 (0.18%) R
15 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 133 (24.58%) Degree
2 79 (14.60%) Security Cleared
3 41 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.10%) DBS Check
5 20 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (0.92%) PhD
8 5 (0.92%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.92%) PMP
9 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CCNA
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CSPO
11 2 (0.37%) MBA
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.18%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.73%) QA
2 16 (2.96%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.03%) SOC 2
4 9 (1.66%) GDPR
5 5 (0.92%) SLA
6 3 (0.55%) NIST
7 2 (0.37%) ITGC
7 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.18%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (6.28%) Docker
2 24 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (4.99%) Terraform
2 25 (4.62%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.22%) SCCM
3 12 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.22%) WSUS
4 9 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.37%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 103 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.02%) Oracle
3 36 (6.65%) OpenLink
3 36 (6.65%) Sybase
3 36 (6.65%) TIBCO
4 32 (5.91%) Apple
5 27 (4.99%) Google
6 19 (3.51%) IFS
7 17 (3.14%) Workday
8 15 (2.77%) Adobe
9 11 (2.03%) VMware
10 9 (1.66%) Databricks
11 8 (1.48%) Cisco
12 7 (1.29%) YouTube
13 6 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.11%) Draytek
14 4 (0.74%) Dell
14 4 (0.74%) Logitech
14 4 (0.74%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.74%) Salesforce