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 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 736 906 1189
Rank change year-on-year +170 +283 -338
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Developer 172 41 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.043% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.047% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 170 39 20
10th Percentile £27,500 £41,250 £34,975
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,875 £85,000 £75,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £39,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% +14.65% -1.88%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 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 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
England +151 155 £50,000 -23.08% 8
UK excluding London +89 135 £50,000 +11.11% 4
South West +43 71 £36,000 -15.29%
North of England +63 36 £50,000 +14.29% 1
Work from Home +54 35 £50,000 -23.08% 8
London +127 33 £67,500 +3.85% 4
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Games Developer in the job title.

1 172 (100.00%) Games
2 139 (80.81%) C#
3 98 (56.98%) Degree
4 94 (54.65%) Microsoft
5 90 (52.33%) Software Engineering
6 78 (45.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 75 (43.60%) Virtual Reality
8 72 (41.86%) Git
8 72 (41.86%) Design Patterns
9 71 (41.28%) SC Cleared
9 71 (41.28%) Security Cleared
9 71 (41.28%) Use Case
9 71 (41.28%) JIRA
9 71 (41.28%) Scrum
9 71 (41.28%) Visual Studio
9 71 (41.28%) UML
9 71 (41.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 71 (41.28%) Presentation Skills
9 71 (41.28%) Bitbucket
9 71 (41.28%) Confluence
10 69 (40.12%) .NET
11 64 (37.21%) JavaScript
12 59 (34.30%) DevOps
12 59 (34.30%) Sourcetree
13 51 (29.65%) Multithreading
14 49 (28.49%) Full Stack Development
15 46 (26.74%) Azure
16 43 (25.00%) RESTful
16 43 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
16 43 (25.00%) 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 71 (41.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 46 (26.74%) Azure
2 18 (10.47%) AWS
3 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.77%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.05%) MySQL
3 17 (9.88%) Redis
4 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 72 (41.86%) Git
2 71 (41.28%) Bitbucket
2 71 (41.28%) JIRA
2 71 (41.28%) Visual Studio
3 59 (34.30%) Sourcetree
4 5 (2.91%) gulp
4 5 (2.91%) webpack
5 4 (2.33%) Grunt
General
1 172 (100.00%) Games
2 71 (41.28%) Presentation Skills
3 19 (11.05%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.58%) Finance
6 1 (0.58%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (45.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 69 (40.12%) .NET
3 43 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 43 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 43 (25.00%) RESTful
4 34 (19.77%) HTML
5 28 (16.28%) .NET Core
6 25 (14.53%) HTML5
7 23 (13.37%) ASP.NET
7 23 (13.37%) ASP.NET MVC
8 20 (11.63%) LINQ
9 17 (9.88%) Kafka
10 13 (7.56%) JSON
11 12 (6.98%) Unreal Engine
12 9 (5.23%) Pixi.js
13 7 (4.07%) Node.js
14 6 (3.49%) .NET Framework
14 6 (3.49%) Electron
14 6 (3.49%) WebGL
15 5 (2.91%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (43.60%) Virtual Reality
2 9 (5.23%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.33%) Animation
4 4 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.33%) Online Gambling
5 3 (1.74%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.16%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (1.16%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Linux
1 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (52.33%) Software Engineering
2 72 (41.86%) Design Patterns
3 71 (41.28%) Scrum
3 71 (41.28%) UML
3 71 (41.28%) Use Case
4 59 (34.30%) DevOps
5 51 (29.65%) Multithreading
6 49 (28.49%) Full Stack Development
7 29 (16.86%) Microservices
8 27 (15.70%) Computer Science
9 26 (15.12%) Agile
10 23 (13.37%) MVC
11 20 (11.63%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
12 17 (9.88%) SOLID
13 13 (7.56%) Mathematics
14 11 (6.40%) Game Development
15 9 (5.23%) Statistics
16 8 (4.65%) Low Latency
16 8 (4.65%) Mentoring
17 6 (3.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 139 (80.81%) C#
2 64 (37.21%) JavaScript
3 9 (5.23%) PHP
4 6 (3.49%) SQL
5 2 (1.16%) C
5 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.58%) RPG
6 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (56.98%) Degree
2 71 (41.28%) BPSS Clearance
2 71 (41.28%) SC Cleared
2 71 (41.28%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.88%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.58%) Docker
Vendors
1 94 (54.65%) Microsoft