UK GAMES JOBS LIVE UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2021 - Connecting Great Talent To The Games Industry
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UK GAMES JOBS LIVE UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2021 Connecting Great Talent To The Games Industry
UK GAMES JOBS 2,284 2,339
LIVE UPDATE games companies roles
SEPTEMBER 2021
“Across the UK’s 2,284 games companies
(ref: gamesmap.uk), 178 of them are currently
recruiting for 2,239 roles.”
Welcome to the September 2021 report from Games recently-acquired Unit 2 Games studio with 12 new
Jobs Live. This month we see a large increase in listings.
available roles, with 160 more available positions All these vacancies are also all plotted on our interactive
than last month. This can be attributed in part to map at www.gamesjobs.live for easy searching, and
expansions from large corporations: Activision-Blizzard details of upcoming Games Jobs Live recruitment events
has added 62 new positions across Activision and King and other information are on the back page.
studios in the UK, while Facebook is expanding the Gamesjobs.live
TOP RECRUITERS
125 (-4) 109 (-1) 107 (+33) 65 (+45) 65 (-4) 61 (-2)
Sumo Digital Playground Games Pole to win King Rockstar Unity
60 (-12) 60 (+2) 54 (+15) 54 (+1) 52 (-2) 50 (-1)
PlayStation Axis Studios Jagex Cloud Imperium Splash Damage Frontier
45 (+1) 45 (-7) 42 (-4) 42 (+2) 42 (-15) 36 (+2)
Creative Assembly Natural Motion Electronic Arts Firesprite Rebellion Supermassive Games
35 (-6) 35 (+3) 29 (+3) 29 (-2) 28 (+8) 28 (+3)
Mediatonic Build a Rocket Boy kwalee Climax Studios Tripledot Studios Codemasters
27 (+17) 28 (+3) 26 (+3) 26 (-3) 24 (+2) 23 (+4)
Activision Epic Games DeepMind Ubisoft Media Molecule nDreams35 50.23%
20
UK games companies
currently have
50.23% of roles are outside London and the South
East, a small decrease on last month (51.05%)
or more
open roles
565
Filled positions
725
New job posts created
5.71%
565 positions advertised last month
have been filled (or closed / changed to
a different role) while 725 new job posts 5.71% of roles are listed as being
have been created. fully remote, a small decrease on last
month (6.25%).
763
London
275
Leamington Spa
191
Guildford
133
Brighton
105
Manchester
104
Cambridge
(was 680) (was 247) (was 160) (was 129) (was 98) (was 92)
The distribution of open roles within traditional industry
hubs across the country has shifted slightly towards the
South East; primarily towards London (+83), Guildford
(+31) and Cambridge (+12). Growth can also be seen in
Leamington Spa (+28) and Glasgow (+13).
London..........................................................................763 (was 680)
Leamington Spa........................................................... 275 (was 247)
Guildford.........................................................................191 (was 160)
Brighton..........................................................................133 (was 129)
Manchester..................................................................... 105 (was 98)
Cambridge........................................................................104 (was 92)MOST COMMON JOB TITLES
31
TECHNICAL
26
PRODUCER
23
SENIOR GAMEPLAY
21 SENIOR
20
ARTIST PRODUCER GAMEPLAY
PROGRAMMER PROGRAMMER
18 16 16 16 15
SENIOR VFX ARTIST PROGRAMMER CHARACTER SENIOR
PROGRAMMER ARTIST ANIMATOR
15 14 14 13 13
GRAPHICS SENIOR GAMES GAME UI ARTIST SENIOR TECHNICAL
PROGRAMMER DESIGNER DESIGNER ARTIST
13 12 12 12 12
ENGINE TECHNICAL SENIOR SENIOR LEAD
PR0GRAMMER ANIMATOR ENVIROMENT CHARACTER ARTIST PROGRAMMER
ARTIST
11
LEAD GAME
11 11 11 10
TOOLS LEAD ARTIST ART DIRECTOR TECHNICAL
DESIGNER PROGRAMMER DIRECTOR
10 10
SOFTWARE SENIOR VFX ARTIST
ENGINEER
800
Over the last 6 months, AGE OF JOBS HOW THE NUMBER OF JOBS
the Games Jobs Live Job 700 HAS VARIED OVER PAST 6
Report has tracked a MONTHS
600
constant increase in industry
2400 2,399
jobs, showing signs of 500 Sept
tremendous growth within 725 750
2300
2,035
New jobs Jobs open
the UK Games Industry. 400
in past for 3+ 2200 June
month 488
months 2,239
Some of this increase can Jobs open 565
2100
Aug
360
300 for 1-2 1,922 2,160
be attributed to the GJL month Jobs open
for 2-3
Jobs closed
since July
2000
April July
database growing over time, 200
months 1900 1,988
May
but it is still a positive sign of 1800
the continued success of the 100 1,793
1700 March
domestic games sector. 0The most common disciplines,
Code and Art, have not seen
much change in terms of the
number of open positions. The
increase in roles has been seen
across Production (+29), Design
(+35), QA (+45), Promotion (+14) 228
and HR (+13).
Code.............................835 (was 822)
212
Art ................................ 449 (was 459)
Production.................258 (was 229) 88
Design..........................233 (was 198)
Other............................ 165 (was 139) 6
QA ................................141 (was 96) 89
Promotion......................98 (was 84)
Animation.......................85 (was 88)
Analytics......................... 55 (was 56) 340
HR...................................... 39 (was 26)
Audio................................ 33 (was 36) 587
Legal......................................8 (was 6)
Writing..................................5 (was 4) 115
JOBS BY REGION:
London........................................... 607 4
South East..................................... 587
607
Midlands........................................340
Scotland......................................... 228
North West.....................................212 44
East of England............................115
Yorkshire.......................................... 89
North East.......................................88
South West...................................... 44
N.Ireland.............................................6
Wales....................................................4
JOBS BY STUDIO CATEGORY:
JOBS BY SENIORITY:
AAA................................................. 1108
Experienced................................ 1188
AA.....................................................548
Senior............................................. 565
Mobile.............................................306
Manager......................................... 536
Service.............................................252
Junior...............................................114
Indie................................................ 190
INSIGHTS
The UK games industry has seen represented primarily by Mobile Jagex (+17), Activision (+17) and Unit 2
a very noticeable increase in new studios and Service companies, with Games (+12).
opportunities, now with 2,399 open much of this increase represented by
vacancies; 160 more than last month. the huge number of additional roles While the total number of jobs has
Most of these new positions require posted for King and Pole to Win. increased, some studios have filled
senior staff, with over 50 more a lot of positions this past month.
Manager level roles and over 70 more The most notable increase in Rebellion has filled the most roles,
Experienced level roles available, while positions this month comes from with 15 fewer roles advertised
the number of Junior roles has slightly King, with 45 new positions now open than last month. Other studios
decreased. to UK candidates. Other who have filled (or removed) many
studios looking for a wave of new open positions this month include
These new opportunities are recruits include Pole to Win (+33), PlayStation (-12) and Rocksteady (-10).Explore all the jobs from this report on our interactive Job Map, along with information
about each UK region’s games industry, on our website:
www.gamesjobs.live
UPCOMING EVENTS
One Special Night charity livestream for SpecialEffect:
Thurs 30th September
Studios wishing to sponsor contact nick.streeter@specialeffect.org.uk
Games Jobs Live North
Weds 6th October
Studios wishing to participate contact colin@gamesjobs.live
Games Jobs Live Brighton
Fri 19th November
Studios wishing to participate contact colin@gamesjobs.live
Games Jobs Live Game Jam
Kicks off Thurs 14th November
Studios wishing to help judge or sponsor contact colin@gamesjobs.live
Getting into the Games Industry for 16-18 year olds
Tues 16th November
Studios wishing to participate contact colin@gamesjobs.live
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Report: Benjamin Williams
Design: Adam Butler, Think Creative
Website: Pulse North
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