Online Games Jobs in the UK excluding London

Online Gaming
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Online Games over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 694 827
Rank change year-on-year -41 +133 -112
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 39 25 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.045% 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.11% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 35 25 15
10th Percentile £52,500 £31,688 £41,750
25th Percentile £62,000 £45,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £102,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.16% -1.92% +13.04%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,376 23,140 33,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.81% 41.72% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15,534 10,845 16,072
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,750
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Online Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in the UK excluding London

Online Games
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Online Games in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Online Games in the UK excluding London

Online Games
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Online Games in the UK excluding London

Online Games
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the UK excluding 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
North of England +50 34 £71,500 +46.67% 2
North East - 34 £71,500 -
Midlands -22 3 £70,000 +229.41% 2
East Midlands -34 3 £70,000 +229.41% 1
South East -27 2 £45,000 -30.77% 4
Online Games
UK

Online Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) IIS
2 1 (2.56%) TYPO3
Cloud Services
1 31 (79.49%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) SaaS
3 13 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 13 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (33.33%) dbt
3 13 (33.33%) Serverless
4 11 (28.21%) GitHub
5 9 (23.08%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.82%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (5.13%) Azure
7 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Internet
1 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) MySQL
2 13 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (33.33%) Redis
3 4 (10.26%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (100.00%) Games
2 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (35.90%) Lead
3 13 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
3 13 (33.33%) Data Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Developer
4 9 (23.08%) Lead Data Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) .NET Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) C# Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior
5 7 (17.95%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) .NET Developer
6 6 (15.38%) Team Leader
7 5 (12.82%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (12.82%) C# Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) .NET
1 13 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 13 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 13 (33.33%) Node.js
1 13 (33.33%) RESTful
1 13 (33.33%) Vue
2 11 (28.21%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.13%) Pixi.js
4 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (87.18%) Client/Server
2 11 (28.21%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 13 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 13 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 13 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 13 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 13 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 13 (33.33%) ETL
2 13 (33.33%) MVC
2 13 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 11 (28.21%) Design Patterns
4 11 (28.21%) OOP
5 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) Data Architecture
6 9 (23.08%) Data Engineering
7 8 (20.51%) Coaching
8 6 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
9 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) SQL
2 23 (58.97%) C#
3 14 (35.90%) TypeScript
4 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 13 (33.33%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft