Games Developer Jobs

Game Developer
UK

The median Game Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
19 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 736 917 1158
Rank change year-on-year +181 +241 -317
Permanent jobs requiring a Games Developer 172 43 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.043% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.047% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 172 41 21
10th Percentile £27,500 £41,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £39,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% +14.65% -1.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Games Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Games Developer in the UK

Games Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Games Developer in the UK

Games Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Games Developer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Games Developer in the UK

Games Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
England +189 157 £50,000 -23.08% 11
UK excluding London +116 135 £50,000 +11.11% 8
South West +67 78 £36,000 -15.29%
North of England +73 34 £50,000 +14.29% 3
Work from Home +72 34 £50,000 -23.08% 10
London +113 33 £67,500 +3.85% 3
North East - 18 £60,000 - 1
North West +13 15 £41,235 -8.37%
Wales - 10 £55,000 - 1
South East -3 8 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Midlands +4 4 £63,750 +6.25% 3
West Midlands +15 2 £75,000 +25.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £52,500 - 2
Yorkshire +81 1 £55,000 +29.41% 2
Scotland - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 featuring Games Developer in the job title.

1 172 (100.00%) Games
2 141 (81.98%) C#
3 104 (60.47%) Degree
4 101 (58.72%) Microsoft
5 97 (56.40%) Software Engineering
6 84 (48.84%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 82 (47.67%) Virtual Reality
8 79 (45.93%) Git
9 78 (45.35%) SC Cleared
9 78 (45.35%) Security Cleared
9 78 (45.35%) Use Case
9 78 (45.35%) JIRA
9 78 (45.35%) Scrum
9 78 (45.35%) Visual Studio
9 78 (45.35%) UML
9 78 (45.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 78 (45.35%) Presentation Skills
9 78 (45.35%) Bitbucket
9 78 (45.35%) Confluence
9 78 (45.35%) Design Patterns
10 64 (37.21%) .NET
11 59 (34.30%) DevOps
11 59 (34.30%) Sourcetree
12 58 (33.72%) JavaScript
13 47 (27.33%) Multithreading
14 45 (26.16%) Full Stack Development
15 42 (24.42%) Azure
16 39 (22.67%) RESTful
16 39 (22.67%) ASP.NET Web API
16 39 (22.67%) AngularJS

Games Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 78 (45.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.42%) Azure
2 18 (10.47%) AWS
3 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.19%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.05%) MySQL
3 17 (9.88%) Redis
4 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (45.93%) Git
2 78 (45.35%) Bitbucket
2 78 (45.35%) JIRA
2 78 (45.35%) Visual Studio
3 59 (34.30%) Sourcetree
4 5 (2.91%) gulp
4 5 (2.91%) webpack
5 4 (2.33%) Grunt
General
1 172 (100.00%) Games
2 78 (45.35%) Presentation Skills
3 19 (11.05%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (48.84%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 64 (37.21%) .NET
3 39 (22.67%) AngularJS
3 39 (22.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 39 (22.67%) RESTful
4 32 (18.60%) HTML
5 27 (15.70%) .NET Core
6 24 (13.95%) HTML5
7 23 (13.37%) ASP.NET
7 23 (13.37%) ASP.NET MVC
8 20 (11.63%) LINQ
9 17 (9.88%) Kafka
10 12 (6.98%) JSON
11 11 (6.40%) Unreal Engine
12 7 (4.07%) Node.js
12 7 (4.07%) Pixi.js
13 6 (3.49%) Electron
13 6 (3.49%) WebGL
14 5 (2.91%) Babylonjs
14 5 (2.91%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 82 (47.67%) Virtual Reality
2 9 (5.23%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.33%) Animation
4 4 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.33%) Online Gambling
5 3 (1.74%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.16%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (1.16%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (56.40%) Software Engineering
2 78 (45.35%) Design Patterns
2 78 (45.35%) Scrum
2 78 (45.35%) UML
2 78 (45.35%) Use Case
3 59 (34.30%) DevOps
4 47 (27.33%) Multithreading
5 45 (26.16%) Full Stack Development
6 29 (16.86%) Microservices
7 27 (15.70%) Computer Science
8 24 (13.95%) Agile
9 23 (13.37%) MVC
10 20 (11.63%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
11 17 (9.88%) SOLID
12 13 (7.56%) Mathematics
13 11 (6.40%) Game Development
14 9 (5.23%) Statistics
15 8 (4.65%) Low Latency
16 7 (4.07%) Mentoring
17 6 (3.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 141 (81.98%) C#
2 58 (33.72%) JavaScript
3 9 (5.23%) PHP
4 6 (3.49%) SQL
5 2 (1.16%) C
5 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.58%) RPG
6 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 104 (60.47%) Degree
2 78 (45.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 78 (45.35%) SC Cleared
2 78 (45.35%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.88%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.05%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.58%) Docker
Vendors
1 101 (58.72%) Microsoft