Around 15% of games trade staff in Europe had been laid off and subsequently discovered a brand new job in 2023/2024, with 6.2% laid off and nonetheless looking for work, based on the newest Huge Games Trade Employment Survey.
The research is carried out each year by recruitment company Values Worth and profession platform InGame Job (extra on the methodology under), and the newest version has additionally discovered that 10% of games professionals in Europe took jobs in one other trade final year.
The survey has additionally discovered that some jobs at games studios had been extra liable to layoffs in the area, together with HR, recruitment, QA, and artists.
The Huge Games Trade Employment Survey additionally checked out median salaries, highlighting a discrepancy between European Union nations, and non-EU nations on the continent, throughout all roles and seniority.
For instance, listed below are the median wage ranges for center stage jobs in games (all salaries are gross, annual, and in Euros):
The median wage for 2024 has total elevated throughout the board for many positions and ranges of seniority, although there are exceptions as an example for HR/recruiting roles, with salaries down year-on-year.
“For some positions, there’s been a noticeable drop in salaries in comparison with 2023,” mentioned Tanja Loktionova, founder of Values Worth, and co-founder of InGame Job. “That is notably true for senior stage HR professionals, recruiters, QA specialists, mid-level enterprise improvement roles, and almost all juniors in our pattern. And we discovered a correlation – based on our information, specialists in these professions had been the most affected by layoffs over the past year.”
The report additionally highlighted the essential gender pay hole between women and men throughout roles in games, as seen in the graph under:
the most typical causes for dissatisfaction at a job, burnout, unprofessional administration, and poor work-life stability had been the most typical causes given.
Distant working continues to be at a excessive, with 57% of firms in the EU working remotely, versus 75% for European international locations outdoors the EU.
In the meantime, 54% of the sport builders who responded to the survey mentioned they use AI in their every day work and discover it useful. Final year, solely 37% mentioned so.
The research was carried out throughout over 50 international locations in Europe from March to June 2024, for a complete of 1,832 respondents. The latter had been predominantly males, at 58%, with girls representing 24% of respondents, and 19% of them clicking ‘Different’ or preferring to not reply the query about their gender.
Respondents had been divided as follows in phrases of seniority: 9% junior, 29% center, 30% senior, 28% lead. Around 19% of the individuals who participated in the survey had over ten years of expertise in games.