Online Games Jobs in England

Online Gaming
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Online Games over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 807 855 840
Rank change year-on-year +48 -15 -62
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 41 59 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.070% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.16% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 38 47 62
10th Percentile £44,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £86,250 £107,500 £79,875
UK median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +15.56%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,532 36,815 67,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.46% 43.69% 47.40%
Number of salaries quoted 21,016 20,405 30,597
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,000 £34,825
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,749 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in England

Online Games
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Online Games in England

Online Games
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Online Games in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Online Games in England

Online Games
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +61 34 £71,500 +46.67% 2
North East - 34 £71,500 -
London +78 3 £50,000 -23.08% 18
South East -13 2 £45,000 -30.77% 6
East Midlands - 2 £70,000 -
Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 1
Online Games
UK

Online 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 13 (31.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) IIS
2 1 (2.44%) TYPO3
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 14 (34.15%) MySQL
2 13 (31.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (31.71%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (31.71%) Redis
3 4 (9.76%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
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 14 (34.15%) 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%) DevOps Engineer
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%) HTML
4 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.44%) CSS
4 1 (2.44%) Django
4 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.44%) Flask
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) Pixi.js
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
4 1 (2.44%) Social Media
4 1 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) Problem-Solving
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%) Computer Science
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 23 (56.10%) C#
3 14 (34.15%) Python
3 14 (34.15%) TypeScript
4 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) GRC
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) 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