Games Jobs in the East of England

Gaming
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Games over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 92 98
Rank change year-on-year -57 +6 +32
Permanent jobs citing Games 39 45 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.86% 2.10% 3.39%
As % of the General category 1.60% 3.23% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 59
10th Percentile £30,000 - £26,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £32,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +55.56%
75th Percentile £96,250 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,250 £110,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -3.85%

All General Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,441 1,394 4,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 53.86% 64.93% 67.47%
Number of salaries quoted 914 888 1,637
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.69%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Games in the East of England

Games
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Games in the East of England

Games
Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Cambridgeshire -20 19 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Hertfordshire -17 13 £95,000 - 17
Suffolk - 4 - - 1
Essex -17 2 - - 3
Norfolk - 1 - - 1
Games
England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 1 (2.56%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Copilot
2 10 (25.64%) Serverless
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.56%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) BGP
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) HSRP
1 1 (2.56%) Internet
1 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
1 1 (2.56%) SAN
1 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.56%) OLTP
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Redis
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Android Studio
1 2 (5.13%) Xcode
2 1 (2.56%) Appium
2 1 (2.56%) Babel
2 1 (2.56%) Selenium
2 1 (2.56%) Vite
2 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 7 (17.95%) Marketing
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Publishing
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Electronics
5 1 (2.56%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Test Technician
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Associate Director
6 2 (5.13%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Graphics Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.13%) PHP Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Procurement Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Security Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Team Leader
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Director
6 2 (5.13%) Tools Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) React
1 12 (30.77%) React Native
2 10 (25.64%) AngularJS
3 4 (10.26%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 4 (10.26%) Unreal Engine
4 3 (7.69%) .NET
5 2 (5.13%) Godot
5 2 (5.13%) HTML
5 2 (5.13%) Kafka
5 2 (5.13%) Node.js
5 2 (5.13%) OpenCL
5 2 (5.13%) POSIX
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) Vulkan
6 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.56%) Jest
6 1 (2.56%) Laravel
6 1 (2.56%) NestJS
6 1 (2.56%) Redux
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Online Games
3 4 (10.26%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (10.26%) Mobile Games
4 2 (5.13%) CUDA
4 2 (5.13%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (5.13%) e-Learning
4 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.13%) Robotics
4 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.13%) Sports Betting
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (2.56%) IoT
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.56%) PKI
5 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Android
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.56%) CentOS
3 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 10 (25.64%) Customer Requirements
3 10 (25.64%) Decision-Making
3 10 (25.64%) Generative AI
4 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
5 6 (15.38%) Agile
5 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps
6 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.26%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (10.26%) Machine Learning
8 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (7.69%) Mathematics
9 2 (5.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) C++
2 6 (15.38%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) PHP
5 2 (5.13%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GRC
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
1 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) TikTok
2 4 (10.26%) Cadence
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) EMC
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat