Online Games Jobs with Work from Home Options

Online Gaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online 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 Online Games over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 610 735
Rank change year-on-year +55 +125 -169
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 41 30 159
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.079% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.20% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 37 30 31
10th Percentile £44,000 £44,750 £52,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,313 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -11.54% +20.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +15.56%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Online Games is in the General and Transferable 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 generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,305 14,887 35,661
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.88% 39.07% 47.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,304 11,008 17,393
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,441 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,865 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Online Games
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Online Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Online Games trend for jobs with a WFH option

Online 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 Online Games.

Online Games salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Online Games
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Online Games over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Online Games salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Online 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 13 (31.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 31 (75.61%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) SaaS
3 13 (31.71%) Amazon Kinesis
3 13 (31.71%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (31.71%) dbt
3 13 (31.71%) Serverless
4 12 (29.27%) GitHub
5 9 (21.95%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.20%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.88%) Azure
7 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Internet
1 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) Amazon Redshift
1 13 (31.71%) MySQL
1 13 (31.71%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (31.71%) Redis
2 4 (9.76%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.44%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 41 (100.00%) Games
2 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (36.59%) Lead
3 13 (31.71%) AWS Data Engineer
3 13 (31.71%) Data Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Developer
4 9 (21.95%) Lead Data Engineer
5 8 (19.51%) Senior
6 7 (17.07%) .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) C# Software Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) Team Leader
7 6 (14.63%) .NET Developer
8 5 (12.20%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (12.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (12.20%) C# Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) .NET
1 13 (31.71%) ASP.NET
1 13 (31.71%) ASP.NET MVC
1 13 (31.71%) Node.js
1 13 (31.71%) RESTful
1 13 (31.71%) Vue
2 11 (26.83%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.88%) Pixi.js
4 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.44%) Django
4 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.44%) Flask
4 1 (2.44%) HTML
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) WebSockets
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (82.93%) Client/Server
2 11 (26.83%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (31.71%) Computer Science
2 13 (31.71%) Data Extraction
2 13 (31.71%) Data Ingestion
2 13 (31.71%) Data Integration
2 13 (31.71%) Data Modelling
2 13 (31.71%) Data Transformation
2 13 (31.71%) ETL
2 13 (31.71%) MVC
2 13 (31.71%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (29.27%) Mentoring
4 11 (26.83%) Design Patterns
4 11 (26.83%) OOP
5 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.95%) Data Architecture
6 9 (21.95%) Data Engineering
7 8 (19.51%) Coaching
8 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
8 6 (14.63%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) SQL
2 22 (53.66%) C#
3 14 (34.15%) Python
4 13 (31.71%) TypeScript
5 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
6 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (43.90%) Terraform
2 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft