Games Jobs in the North of England

Gaming
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 33 105
Rank change year-on-year -119 +72 +40
Permanent jobs citing Games 278 1,310 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.57% 7.76% 3.17%
As % of the General category 2.84% 11.06% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 234 122 395
10th Percentile £24,196 £22,500 £36,412
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,900 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £75,800 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,795 11,846 10,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.40% 70.14% 58.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,391 5,089 6,156
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the North of England

Games
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in the North of England.

Salary trend for Games in the North of England

Games
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the North of England

Games
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 West -142 142 £45,000 -10.00% 93
North East +53 70 £64,040 +34.82% 20
Yorkshire -102 66 £50,000 -9.09% 40
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 13 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.88%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.08%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) WordPress
4 2 (0.72%) CMS
4 2 (0.72%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.72%) InDesign
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.72%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.36%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (24.46%) AWS
2 51 (18.35%) Azure
3 21 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (7.55%) Serverless
4 18 (6.47%) Amazon S3
5 16 (5.76%) SaaS
6 15 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.68%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (4.68%) dbt
8 12 (4.32%) GitHub
9 9 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 7 (2.52%) Figma
12 5 (1.80%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.80%) DigitalOcean
12 5 (1.80%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.08%) Commercetools
13 3 (1.08%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.52%) Firewall
2 5 (1.80%) Broadband
3 3 (1.08%) Network Security
4 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.51%) MySQL
2 31 (11.15%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.55%) Redis
4 18 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.88%) Couchbase
6 8 (2.88%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.44%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.08%) OLTP
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.72%) QlikView
11 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.32%) Git
1 12 (4.32%) TeamCity
2 7 (2.52%) JIRA
3 5 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) XCTest
General
1 95 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.99%) Retail
3 18 (6.47%) Billing
4 15 (5.40%) Finance
5 14 (5.04%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.32%) Legal
8 11 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.24%) Marketing
10 7 (2.52%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.16%) Local Government
12 5 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.44%) Banking
13 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.08%) Automotive
14 3 (1.08%) Publishing
15 2 (0.72%) Esports
16 1 (0.36%) iGaming
16 1 (0.36%) Law
16 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 103 (37.05%) Developer
2 44 (15.83%) .NET Developer
3 36 (12.95%) Senior
4 34 (12.23%) Games Developer
5 31 (11.15%) C# Developer
6 27 (9.71%) Lead
7 26 (9.35%) C# .NET Developer
8 22 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (7.91%) Full Stack Developer
9 19 (6.83%) PHP Developer
10 14 (5.04%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.68%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (4.68%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.68%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (4.68%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 13 (4.68%) Lead Developer
11 13 (4.68%) Team Leader
12 12 (4.32%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 12 (4.32%) Analyst
13 11 (3.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.94%) .NET
2 35 (12.59%) Node.js
3 34 (12.23%) HTML
4 33 (11.87%) AngularJS
5 31 (11.15%) RESTful
6 30 (10.79%) .NET Core
7 29 (10.43%) Vue
8 26 (9.35%) ASP.NET
9 25 (8.99%) ASP.NET Web API
10 24 (8.63%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (7.55%) React
12 19 (6.83%) CSS
13 17 (6.12%) .NET Framework
13 17 (6.12%) Entity Framework
14 12 (4.32%) Laravel
14 12 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (4.32%) Unreal Engine
15 11 (3.96%) jQuery
15 11 (3.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 10 (3.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.11%) Client/Server
2 34 (12.23%) Online Games
3 13 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.96%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.96%) Social Media
5 10 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.88%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.52%) Virtual Reality
8 5 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.80%) Life Science
9 4 (1.44%) Animation
9 4 (1.44%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.44%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.44%) IoT
9 4 (1.44%) Web3
10 3 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.72%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.72%) iPhone
11 2 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.19%) Windows
2 8 (2.88%) Android
2 8 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.52%) Linux
4 6 (2.16%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.80%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.08%) Unix
6 3 (1.08%) VMS
7 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (22.30%) Agile
2 48 (17.27%) Full Stack Development
3 47 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (16.55%) Computer Science
5 37 (13.31%) Customer Service
6 35 (12.59%) MVC
7 31 (11.15%) User Experience
8 30 (10.79%) Mentoring
9 29 (10.43%) Coaching
10 25 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (8.27%) Project Management
11 23 (8.27%) Software Engineering
12 22 (7.91%) Customer Experience
12 22 (7.91%) DevOps
12 22 (7.91%) Scrum
13 20 (7.19%) Mathematics
14 18 (6.47%) Multithreading
14 18 (6.47%) Value Proposition
15 15 (5.40%) Design Patterns
15 15 (5.40%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 79 (28.42%) C#
2 78 (28.06%) JavaScript
3 54 (19.42%) SQL
4 30 (10.79%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.27%) PHP
5 23 (8.27%) Python
6 11 (3.96%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.60%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.44%) C++
9 2 (0.72%) Go
9 2 (0.72%) Java
9 2 (0.72%) VB
9 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) RPG
10 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (23.02%) Degree
2 25 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (6.83%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.60%) CCNA
4 10 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.88%) CCNA CyberOps
6 8 (2.88%) CCNP
7 5 (1.80%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.80%) MCP
7 5 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (1.80%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.08%) OSCP
8 3 (1.08%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) CEH
9 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) MCSE
9 2 (0.72%) SSCP
10 1 (0.36%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.52%) QA
3 6 (2.16%) GDPR
4 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (8.99%) Docker
2 8 (2.88%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (7.91%) Terraform
2 7 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.08%) Ansible
4 3 (1.08%) SCCM
4 3 (1.08%) WSUS
5 2 (0.72%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.60%) Cisco
3 5 (1.80%) Aruba
3 5 (1.80%) Dell
3 5 (1.80%) Freshdesk
3 5 (1.80%) SonicWALL
3 5 (1.80%) Veeam
4 3 (1.08%) Adobe
4 3 (1.08%) Apple
4 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.72%) Citrix
5 2 (0.72%) Instagram
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle
5 2 (0.72%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.72%) SYSPRO
5 2 (0.72%) Twitter
5 2 (0.72%) VMware
6 1 (0.36%) Cadence
6 1 (0.36%) Google
6 1 (0.36%) YouTube