Games Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Gaming
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 61 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -47
Permanent jobs citing Games 46 36 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.62% 2.91% 2.93%
As % of the General category 4.98% 4.40% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 46 15 14
10th Percentile £48,750 £39,500 £26,975
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £80,001 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £79,000 £87,875
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% -4.55%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 923 819 1,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 52.59% 66.26% 64.93%
Number of salaries quoted 695 307 527
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £33,959 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in Cambridgeshire

Games
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Games in Cambridgeshire.

Salary trend for Games in Cambridgeshire

Games
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in Cambridgeshire

Games
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Cambridgeshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +17 46 £60,000 - 10
Games
East of England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Blender
1 7 (15.22%) Maya
2 4 (8.70%) ZBrush
3 3 (6.52%) Houdini
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) AWS
2 2 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (2.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) Internet
1 12 (26.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
General
1 12 (26.09%) Electronics
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Agriculture
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Senior
2 12 (26.09%) Electronics Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Hardware Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Senior Electronics Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Lead
4 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Machine Learning Researcher
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Software Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Software Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Art Director
5 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Technical Artist
6 3 (6.52%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) PyTorch
1 7 (15.22%) TensorFlow
2 6 (13.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 3 (6.52%) CryEngine
3 3 (6.52%) DirectX
3 3 (6.52%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (6.52%) Vulkan
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.17%) TypeORM
4 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) IoT
2 11 (23.91%) Algorithms
3 7 (15.22%) Animation
3 7 (15.22%) Blockchain
3 7 (15.22%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (10.87%) Client/Server
5 4 (8.70%) Motion Graphics
6 3 (6.52%) Ray Tracing
6 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
4 7 (15.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (15.22%) Cryptography
4 7 (15.22%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (15.22%) Deep Learning
4 7 (15.22%) Differential Privacy
4 7 (15.22%) Game Theory
4 7 (15.22%) Machine Learning
4 7 (15.22%) Multi-Agent System
4 7 (15.22%) Open Source
4 7 (15.22%) Open Source Development
4 7 (15.22%) Probability Theory
4 7 (15.22%) Statistics
4 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
5 4 (8.70%) Data Engineering
5 4 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (8.70%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) C#
3 7 (15.22%) RPG
4 5 (10.87%) SQL
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) F5
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft