Games Contracts in the East of England

Gaming
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 97 138
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 -34
Contract jobs citing Games 13 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.66% 1.08% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.14% 1.81% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 9
10th Percentile £356 £413 £417
25th Percentile £363 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +30.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £413 £903 £525
90th Percentile £625 £1,050 -
England median daily rate £414 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.11% -10.00% +11.11%

All General Skills
East of England

Games falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,144 1,158 1,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.40% 59.48% 59.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 647 785
10th Percentile £218 £205 £186
25th Percentile £337 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £575
90th Percentile £651 £740 £675
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 241 334
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% +27.81% +3.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £34.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in the East of England

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Games in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -2 10 £375 -48.28% 8
Cambridgeshire -9 3 £331 -30.26% 12
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) VTune
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
1 6 (46.15%) Test Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) C Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) C/C++ Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) C++ Games Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) C++ Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Games Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Graphics Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) Visualforce
2 1 (7.69%) DirectX
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) OpenGL
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) React Native
2 1 (7.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (7.69%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (7.69%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Ray Tracing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Acceptance Criteria
1 6 (46.15%) Scenario Testing
1 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 6 (46.15%) Test Management
1 6 (46.15%) Test Planning
1 6 (46.15%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (15.38%) ATDD
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Kanban
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 2 (15.38%) User Stories
3 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
3 2 (15.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Apex Code
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) GLSL
3 1 (7.69%) HLSL
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud