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 remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Online 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 561 605 741
Rank change year-on-year +44 +136 -170
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 41 28 160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.075% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.19% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 37 28 32
10th Percentile £44,000 £44,250 £52,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £57,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -13.21% +22.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,500 £76,125
UK median annual salary £71,500 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.16% -1.92% +13.04%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Online Games falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,386 14,549 35,885
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.84% 38.82% 47.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,322 10,904 17,354
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,364 £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 £85,977 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,531 £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 12 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