About gamesJobs

Keep it simple

I'm no longer in the games industry, but when I was trying to get in, finding a job was a nightmare. I've always felt it was a problem that needed solving, and while I can't help anyone with interview techniques, I can provide a list of REAL jobs from REAL companies.

So that's what gamesJobs is: one simple, fast place that brings together the live vacancies from the UK's game studios, so anyone looking for a job in games can find it without trawling a few hundred careers pages first.

How it works

Every morning a set of scripts reads the careers pages and job feeds of the UK game studios I track: over 200 studios with a public jobs feed, out of a directory of more than 900 games companies across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. New studios are wired in all the time. Most studios use a standard applicant-tracking system; for the ones that hand-build their careers page, I write a custom reader for that site. The results are cleaned up, filtered, sorted into disciplines and published by around 4am UK time.

Every listing links straight to the studio's own posting, so you always apply at the source. When a studio closes a role, it disappears from the board on the next rebuild. A daily post on Bluesky and LinkedIn says how many new roles went up that day, with a weekly round-up on Mondays.

Editorial standards

A job board is only useful if you can trust what's on it, so a few rules are applied to every listing:

• Direct from the studio. Roles come from studios' own careers pages and feeds. No recruitment agencies, no paid placements, no reposts from other sites.
• Actually in the UK. Big studios publish worldwide feeds, so every location is checked and roles outside the UK are dropped. A role in "New York" or "New South Wales" won't sneak in because it contains "York" or "Wales".
• Actually a vacancy. Evergreen "send us your CV", talent-pool and speculative-application entries are removed. If it's listed, the studio is hiring for it now.
• Actually open. Everything is rebuilt daily, and closed roles are taken down rather than left to go stale.
• Free for everyone. Studios don't pay to be listed and job seekers don't pay to search. The site is funded by advertising, which never affects which roles appear or where.

Sometimes something slips through the filters. If you spot one, let me know and it'll be fixed, usually the same day.

What you'll find here

• The job board: every live role, searchable and filterable by country, city, discipline, studio, remote and graduate-friendly roles.
• Career guides: practical, UK-specific advice on breaking in, portfolios, CVs, interviews, job titles and more.
• Salaries: what UK studios advertise when they do publish pay, rebuilt from live listings every day.
• Stats: how the number of open roles has moved over time, by region and discipline.
• Browse, studios hiring now and the company directory of every UK games company tracked, hiring or not.