Games Contracts in England

Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 419 377
Rank change year-on-year +15 -42 +3
Contract jobs citing Games 146 226 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the General category 0.68% 0.81% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 195 410
10th Percentile £220 £263 £362
25th Percentile £300 £334 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £540 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £414 £466 £500
% change year-on-year -11.27% -6.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile £6.93 - £40.74
25th Percentile £29.75 - £41.47
Median hourly rate £41.21 £60.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.32% +37.54% +51.21%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £46.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.00 £47.81
UK median hourly rate £39.92 £60.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -33.47% +37.54% +45.42%

All General Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,502 27,813 40,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.33% 59.13% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,781 19,606 28,322
10th Percentile £281 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,827 910 1,280
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%
75th Percentile £52.64 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in England

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Games in England

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in England

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Games in England

Games
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Games in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Games in England

Games
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +51 77 £422 -15.55% 238
Midlands +19 20 £225 -40.00% 80
North of England +2 18 £500 +20.48% 98
West Midlands +18 13 £225 -37.06% 54
East of England -3 13 £375 -42.31% 34
Yorkshire +8 10 £525 -4.55% 33
East Midlands +9 7 £418 +11.47% 26
North West +6 7 £463 +11.45% 58
South West +3 4 £525 +90.91% 34
South East +8 2 £120 -72.57% 121
North East +9 1 £450 +12.50% 9
Games
UK

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (2.05%) CMS
1 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.37%) Confluence
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (9.59%) Maya
2 12 (8.22%) Photoshop
3 7 (4.79%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (3.42%) Blender
5 4 (2.74%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (2.74%) NUKE
6 3 (2.05%) Adobe XD
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (2.05%) Sketch
6 3 (2.05%) ZBrush
7 2 (1.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.68%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.68%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.27%) AWS
2 7 (4.79%) Figma
2 7 (4.79%) SaaS
3 4 (2.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 3 (2.05%) Azure
5 2 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.37%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.37%) Serverless
5 2 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.68%) GCP
6 1 (0.68%) GitHub
6 1 (0.68%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) Internet
1 2 (1.37%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.68%) Intranet
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (1.37%) MySQL
1 2 (1.37%) RDBMS
1 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.68%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) Redash
2 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.37%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.68%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.68%) PostCSS
3 1 (0.68%) VTune
General
1 50 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.59%) Marketing
3 10 (6.85%) Finance
4 8 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.37%) Advertising
6 2 (1.37%) Automotive
6 2 (1.37%) Back Office
6 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.37%) Retail
6 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.68%) Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Electronics
7 1 (0.68%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (19.86%) Developer
2 17 (11.64%) Lead
3 14 (9.59%) Designer
4 13 (8.90%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.53%) Analyst
6 9 (6.16%) Architect
6 9 (6.16%) UX Designer
7 8 (5.48%) Games Designer
7 8 (5.48%) Senior
8 7 (4.79%) C++ Developer
8 7 (4.79%) Test Leader
8 7 (4.79%) UI Designer
9 6 (4.11%) UI/UX Designer
9 6 (4.11%) VB Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Technical Writer
11 4 (2.74%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.49%) Unreal Engine
2 25 (17.12%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 8 (5.48%) HTML
3 8 (5.48%) React
4 7 (4.79%) CSS
5 6 (4.11%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.74%) FFmpeg
6 4 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (2.74%) REST
6 4 (2.74%) Visualforce
7 3 (2.05%) .NET
7 3 (2.05%) Angular 2
7 3 (2.05%) Kafka
7 3 (2.05%) WebGL
8 2 (1.37%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.37%) Flask
8 2 (1.37%) Node.js
8 2 (1.37%) PyQt
8 2 (1.37%) PySide
8 2 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.70%) Virtual Reality
2 18 (12.33%) Augmented Reality
3 9 (6.16%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.48%) Mobile Games
5 7 (4.79%) Animation
6 6 (4.11%) Motion Graphics
6 6 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.42%) Video Editing
8 4 (2.74%) Social Media
9 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.05%) Cyberattack
9 3 (2.05%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.37%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.37%) Online Games
10 2 (1.37%) Sports Betting
10 2 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.68%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Windows
2 5 (3.42%) Android
2 5 (3.42%) Linux
3 2 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.68%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (11.64%) Agile
3 16 (10.96%) Game Development
4 15 (10.27%) Software Engineering
4 15 (10.27%) Web Development
5 14 (9.59%) User Experience
6 13 (8.90%) Mentoring
6 13 (8.90%) UX Design
7 12 (8.22%) Project Management
8 11 (7.53%) Computer Science
9 9 (6.16%) Data Protection
9 9 (6.16%) Roadmaps
9 9 (6.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (5.48%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (5.48%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (4.79%) Computer Vision
11 7 (4.79%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (4.79%) Prototyping
11 7 (4.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 7 (4.79%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.96%) Python
2 14 (9.59%) C++
3 11 (7.53%) C#
3 11 (7.53%) SQL
4 10 (6.85%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.11%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.11%) VB
6 4 (2.74%) Apex Code
6 4 (2.74%) Rust
7 2 (1.37%) Java
7 2 (1.37%) PHP
8 1 (0.68%) Bash
8 1 (0.68%) C
8 1 (0.68%) GLSL
8 1 (0.68%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.96%) Degree
2 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.74%) PMP
4 3 (2.05%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (0.68%) CISM
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) QA
2 6 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
1 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.37%) Terraform
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (6.85%) Adobe
2 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.42%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 3 (2.05%) Darktrace
4 3 (2.05%) FireEye
4 3 (2.05%) LogRhythm
4 3 (2.05%) Splunk
5 2 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.37%) Okta
6 1 (0.68%) Apple
6 1 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) SAP
6 1 (0.68%) Sony
6 1 (0.68%) VMware
6 1 (0.68%) Workday