Games Developer Jobs in London

Game Developer
England > London

The median Game Developer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 584 881
Rank change year-on-year +100 +297 -306
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Developer 34 19 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.061% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.064% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 32 19 13
10th Percentile - £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile - £85,500 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% +28.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 23,340 29,809 71,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.99% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,175 22,417 34,826
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Games Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Games Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Games Developer in London

Games Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Games Developer in London

Games Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games Developer in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Games Developer in London

Games Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Central London +46 5 £67,500 +14.89% 1
West London - 1 £65,000 -
Games Developer
England

Games Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Games Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Games Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Games
2 27 (79.41%) .NET
3 26 (76.47%) C#
4 20 (58.82%) Degree
5 18 (52.94%) MySQL
6 17 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 17 (50.00%) Computer Science
6 17 (50.00%) AWS
6 17 (50.00%) Redis
6 17 (50.00%) Kafka
6 17 (50.00%) SOLID
6 17 (50.00%) Master's Degree
7 16 (47.06%) SQL Server
8 15 (44.12%) JavaScript
9 14 (41.18%) Microservices
9 14 (41.18%) Multithreading
10 9 (26.47%) Full Stack Development
10 9 (26.47%) Statistics
10 9 (26.47%) Mathematics
10 9 (26.47%) Azure
10 9 (26.47%) Algorithms
11 8 (23.53%) Low Latency
11 8 (23.53%) HTML5
11 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (23.53%) MVC
11 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
11 8 (23.53%) HTML
11 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET
11 8 (23.53%) Agile
11 8 (23.53%) .NET Core

Games Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) MySQL
2 17 (50.00%) Redis
3 16 (47.06%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Grunt
1 3 (8.82%) gulp
1 3 (8.82%) webpack
General
1 34 (100.00%) Games
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (79.41%) .NET
2 17 (50.00%) Kafka
3 8 (23.53%) .NET Core
3 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET
3 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
3 8 (23.53%) HTML
3 8 (23.53%) HTML5
4 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (17.65%) Babylonjs
4 6 (17.65%) JSON
4 6 (17.65%) Pixi.js
4 6 (17.65%) Redux
4 6 (17.65%) RESTful
4 6 (17.65%) RxJS
4 6 (17.65%) WebGL
4 6 (17.65%) XML
5 5 (14.71%) LINQ
6 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
6 3 (8.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Algorithms
2 6 (17.65%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.82%) Online Gambling
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 17 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 17 (50.00%) SOLID
2 14 (41.18%) Microservices
2 14 (41.18%) Multithreading
3 9 (26.47%) Full Stack Development
3 9 (26.47%) Mathematics
3 9 (26.47%) Statistics
4 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 8 (23.53%) Low Latency
4 8 (23.53%) MVC
5 5 (14.71%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 3 (8.82%) BDD
6 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
6 3 (8.82%) TDD
7 1 (2.94%) Functional Testing
7 1 (2.94%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) C#
2 15 (44.12%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (58.82%) Degree
2 17 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft