Games Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Game Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Game Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 633 722 835
Rank change year-on-year +89 +113 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Developer 135 14 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.025% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.028% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 133 12 6
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £33,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £39,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +14.65% -1.88%
75th Percentile £55,000 £49,063 £43,438
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £66,875
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +40.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Games Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Games Developer in the UK excluding London

Games Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Games Developer in the UK excluding London

Games Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Games Developer in the UK excluding London

Games Developer
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 Developer 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
South West +43 71 £36,000 -15.29%
North of England +63 36 £50,000 +14.29% 1
North East - 20 £60,000 - 1
North West +7 15 £41,235 -8.37%
Wales - 12 £60,000 - 1
South East -3 9 £50,000 -6.98% 1
Midlands - 6 £63,750 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
Yorkshire +62 1 £55,000 +29.41%
Scotland - 1 £50,000 -
Games Developer
UK

Games Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Games Developer in the job title.

1 135 (100.00%) Games
2 113 (83.70%) C#
3 86 (63.70%) Microsoft
4 78 (57.78%) Degree
4 78 (57.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 75 (55.56%) Virtual Reality
6 73 (54.07%) Software Engineering
7 72 (53.33%) Git
7 72 (53.33%) Design Patterns
8 71 (52.59%) Presentation Skills
8 71 (52.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 71 (52.59%) Bitbucket
8 71 (52.59%) Use Case
8 71 (52.59%) SC Cleared
8 71 (52.59%) Security Cleared
8 71 (52.59%) Confluence
8 71 (52.59%) JIRA
8 71 (52.59%) Scrum
8 71 (52.59%) Visual Studio
8 71 (52.59%) UML
9 59 (43.70%) DevOps
9 59 (43.70%) Sourcetree
10 47 (34.81%) JavaScript
11 40 (29.63%) .NET
11 40 (29.63%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (27.41%) ASP.NET Web API
12 37 (27.41%) AngularJS
12 37 (27.41%) Azure
12 37 (27.41%) Multithreading
12 37 (27.41%) RESTful

Games Developer Skill Set
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 71 (52.59%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.41%) Azure
2 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
2 1 (0.74%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 72 (53.33%) Git
2 71 (52.59%) Bitbucket
2 71 (52.59%) JIRA
2 71 (52.59%) Visual Studio
3 59 (43.70%) Sourcetree
4 1 (0.74%) gulp
4 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 135 (100.00%) Games
2 71 (52.59%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.74%) Finance
5 1 (0.74%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (57.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 40 (29.63%) .NET
3 37 (27.41%) AngularJS
3 37 (27.41%) ASP.NET Web API
3 37 (27.41%) RESTful
4 25 (18.52%) HTML
5 18 (13.33%) .NET Core
6 16 (11.85%) HTML5
7 15 (11.11%) ASP.NET
7 15 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
7 15 (11.11%) LINQ
8 12 (8.89%) Unreal Engine
9 7 (5.19%) JSON
9 7 (5.19%) Node.js
10 6 (4.44%) Electron
11 3 (2.22%) Laravel
11 3 (2.22%) Pixi.js
11 3 (2.22%) React
11 3 (2.22%) Vue
12 2 (1.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (55.56%) Virtual Reality
2 4 (2.96%) Animation
2 4 (2.96%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (2.22%) Mobile Games
4 2 (1.48%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (1.48%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.74%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.74%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (54.07%) Software Engineering
2 72 (53.33%) Design Patterns
3 71 (52.59%) Scrum
3 71 (52.59%) UML
3 71 (52.59%) Use Case
4 59 (43.70%) DevOps
5 40 (29.63%) Full Stack Development
6 37 (27.41%) Multithreading
7 17 (12.59%) Agile
8 15 (11.11%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
8 15 (11.11%) Microservices
8 15 (11.11%) MVC
9 10 (7.41%) Computer Science
10 9 (6.67%) Game Development
11 6 (4.44%) CAD
11 6 (4.44%) Open Source
11 6 (4.44%) SEO
11 6 (4.44%) User Experience
12 4 (2.96%) Mathematics
12 4 (2.96%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 113 (83.70%) C#
2 47 (34.81%) JavaScript
3 9 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (1.48%) C
4 2 (1.48%) SQL
4 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.74%) RPG
5 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (57.78%) Degree
2 71 (52.59%) BPSS Clearance
2 71 (52.59%) SC Cleared
2 71 (52.59%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (1.48%) QA
Vendors
1 86 (63.70%) Microsoft