Games Jobs with Work from Home Options

Gaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited 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 214 217 88
Rank change year-on-year +3 -129 +49
Permanent jobs citing Games 536 596 3,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.54% 1.55% 4.15%
As % of the General category 2.54% 2.36% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 367 441 1,085
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,945 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +23.89%
75th Percentile £73,500 £85,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,085 25,303 47,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.60% 65.66% 64.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15,141 17,245 25,038
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,116 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Games
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Games trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Games.

Games salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Games
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Games over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Games salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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 59 (11.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.12%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2000
5 4 (0.75%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.75%) Blender
3 4 (0.75%) Simulink
3 4 (0.75%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.56%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.37%) Maya
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) ZBrush
6 1 (0.19%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 38 (7.09%) Endur
2 3 (0.56%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.37%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 97 (18.10%) AWS
2 90 (16.79%) Azure
3 28 (5.22%) SaaS
4 27 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (4.85%) Serverless
6 21 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (3.92%) GitHub
7 19 (3.54%) Amazon S3
8 16 (2.99%) dbt
9 15 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.43%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.68%) Asana
11 9 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.49%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 8 (1.49%) GCP
13 6 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.93%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (0.93%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.97%) Wireless
2 20 (3.73%) Firewall
3 16 (2.99%) Broadband
4 14 (2.61%) Internet
5 13 (2.43%) DNS
6 12 (2.24%) Network Security
7 11 (2.05%) NAS
7 11 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.56%) LAN
8 3 (0.56%) VPN
9 2 (0.37%) DHCP
9 2 (0.37%) HTTP
10 1 (0.19%) SMS
10 1 (0.19%) SSH
10 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (20.52%) SQL Server
2 44 (8.21%) Relational Database
3 43 (8.02%) RDBMS
4 38 (7.09%) MySQL
5 27 (5.04%) Redis
6 26 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.61%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.68%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.49%) Couchbase
12 7 (1.31%) Big Data
12 7 (1.31%) Data Mining
13 6 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.12%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.93%) Power BI
14 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (3.36%) Git
2 16 (2.99%) TeamCity
3 12 (2.24%) JIRA
4 8 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.75%) Storybook
5 4 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.56%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.19%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.19%) XCTest
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.60%) Finance
3 70 (13.06%) Marketing
4 68 (12.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.66%) Retail
7 21 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.36%) Billing
8 18 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (3.17%) Aerospace
10 16 (2.99%) Electronics
11 10 (1.87%) Advertising
11 10 (1.87%) Law
12 7 (1.31%) Legal
13 5 (0.93%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.75%) Agriculture
15 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.37%) Music Industry
16 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (26.87%) Developer
2 126 (23.51%) Senior
3 71 (13.25%) .NET Developer
4 58 (10.82%) Project Manager
5 43 (8.02%) Senior Manager
6 41 (7.65%) Lead
7 38 (7.09%) C# Developer
8 37 (6.90%) Software Engineer
9 35 (6.53%) Games Developer
10 31 (5.78%) Analyst
10 31 (5.78%) C# .NET Developer
11 26 (4.85%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.85%) Full Stack Developer
12 25 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (4.10%) Architect
13 22 (4.10%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.10%) Software Manager
14 20 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.73%) Development Manager
14 20 (3.73%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (18.47%) .NET
2 82 (15.30%) .NET Core
3 77 (14.37%) HTML
4 70 (13.06%) ASP.NET
5 68 (12.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 50 (9.33%) AngularJS
7 47 (8.77%) React
8 45 (8.40%) Node.js
9 44 (8.21%) HTML5
10 42 (7.84%) CSS
11 41 (7.65%) Entity Framework
12 34 (6.34%) RESTful
13 32 (5.97%) .NET Framework
13 32 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web API
14 29 (5.41%) Vue
15 27 (5.04%) Blazor
16 23 (4.29%) CSS3
17 20 (3.73%) LINQ
18 16 (2.99%) Kafka
18 16 (2.99%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.45%) Client/Server
2 40 (7.46%) Online Games
3 38 (7.09%) Swaptions
4 34 (6.34%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.17%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.99%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.24%) IoT
9 12 (2.24%) Video Conferencing
9 12 (2.24%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.87%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.68%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.49%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.31%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.31%) Mobile Games
14 7 (1.31%) Virtual Reality
15 6 (1.12%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.33%) Windows
2 16 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.80%) Linux
4 14 (2.61%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.43%) Unix
6 12 (2.24%) VMS
7 9 (1.68%) Android
8 7 (1.31%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.12%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (29.48%) Agile
2 94 (17.54%) Full Stack Development
3 83 (15.49%) Project Management
4 81 (15.11%) Mentoring
5 75 (13.99%) MVC
6 74 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 55 (10.26%) Analytics
8 55 (10.26%) Software Engineering
9 54 (10.07%) Data Modelling
10 52 (9.70%) Creative Thinking
11 51 (9.51%) Roadmaps
11 51 (9.51%) SDLC
12 49 (9.14%) Scrum
13 48 (8.96%) Computer Science
14 46 (8.58%) Microservices
15 43 (8.02%) TDD
16 38 (7.09%) Business Transformation
17 37 (6.90%) Strategic Roadmap
18 35 (6.53%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 124 (23.13%) JavaScript
2 116 (21.64%) C#
3 90 (16.79%) SQL
4 72 (13.43%) Python
5 52 (9.70%) Java
6 48 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.09%) VB
8 20 (3.73%) PHP
9 14 (2.61%) Go
10 12 (2.24%) C++
11 11 (2.05%) Bash
11 11 (2.05%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.87%) C
13 6 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.75%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.37%) Scala
16 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.19%) Perl
16 1 (0.19%) R
16 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 132 (24.63%) Degree
2 78 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.16%) DBS Check
5 18 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (0.93%) PhD
8 5 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.93%) PMP
9 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CCNA
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) CSPO
11 2 (0.37%) MBA
12 1 (0.19%) ISEB
12 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.19%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.60%) QA
2 16 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.05%) SOC 2
4 9 (1.68%) GDPR
5 5 (0.93%) SLA
6 3 (0.56%) NIST
7 2 (0.37%) ITGC
7 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (5.97%) Docker
2 24 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (5.04%) Terraform
2 24 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.24%) SCCM
3 12 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.24%) WSUS
4 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.37%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 103 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.46%) Oracle
3 38 (7.09%) OpenLink
3 38 (7.09%) Sybase
3 38 (7.09%) TIBCO
4 32 (5.97%) Apple
5 27 (5.04%) Google
6 19 (3.54%) IFS
7 17 (3.17%) Workday
8 15 (2.80%) Adobe
9 11 (2.05%) VMware
10 9 (1.68%) Databricks
11 8 (1.49%) Cisco
12 7 (1.31%) YouTube
13 6 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.12%) Draytek
14 4 (0.75%) Dell
14 4 (0.75%) Logitech
14 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.75%) Salesforce