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Playground Games

video game industry England 175 employees website ↗

Playground Games has 10 indexed roles weighted toward engineering. Posting volume is steady (-33% week-over-week).

10
Indexed roles
+0%
14d momentum
4 recent vs 0 prior
#5
Industry rank
1.7% of 605 jobs · 7 peers
0.25
AI exposure (occupation)
Skill-weighted: 0.22
Hiring Trajectory
Posting volume over the last 2 weeks
Bucketed weekly from enriched_at timestamps. Trend classification compares the last 4 weeks against the 4 prior weeks.
2 3 5 7 2026-03-02: 6 postings 2026-04-20: 4 postings 2026-03-022026-04-20
stable Week-over-week: -33%
Functional Mix
Where the hiring is concentrated
Categories collapsed into 12 canonical buckets so cross-company comparisons stay coherent. Same map used on /live and /job-statistics.
Engineering
6
Design
4
Geographic Distribution
Where postings live, and where they're moving
Free-text jobs.location resolved into 12 region buckets. Emerging hubs flagged when last-30-days postings >50% above prior 30 days.

No location data.

Seniority Distribution
Who exactly is being hired
Levels in postings, plus a separate read on executive-tier roles which are the leading indicator of strategic shifts.
Senior
8
Mid-level
1
Disproportionate Skills
What this company is over-indexed on vs industry peers
Location Quotient = (this company's % of postings with skill X) ÷ (peer industry's % of the same skill). Values above 1.0 mean over-indexed. Peer baseline excludes this company itself, so a dominant employer doesn't collapse to ~1.0. Skills with fewer than 3 occurrences here are excluded.
Skill Postings This co. Peer avg LQ Required
Cinematography 3 30% 0.2% 178.50× 100%
Game Design 3 30% 3.7% 8.11× 67%
C++ 4 40% 10.6% 3.78× 100%
Market Position
Direct hiring competitors
Peer set is restricted to the same industry_canonical bucket and ranked by category-overlap (Jaccard on top 5 normalised categories). Each peer's hiring momentum is read from the same 14d / prior-14d windows.
Company Postings Similarity Momentum
Valve Corporation 17 100% stable
Respawn Entertainment 11 50% stable
Electronic Arts 400 40% stable
Keywords Studios 148 17% stable
Strategic Themes
What this hiring is revealing

Coming soon.

Weekly LLM-synthesised brief — emerging capabilities, decaying capabilities, geographic shifts, seniority signals — drawn from the company's own posting tag distribution. Will populate once Phase 4 of the company-intelligence pipeline (OpenRouter long-context model) ships.

Latest
Most recent indexed postings
Screenshot Artist
Leamington Spa hybrid Design
Principal Gameplay Engineer
Leamington Spa senior hybrid Engineering
Lead Gameplay Designer
Leamington Spa senior hybrid Engineering
Experienced Cinematic Artist
Leamington Spa senior hybrid Engineering
Senior Gameplay Engineer
Leamington Spa senior hybrid Engineering
Capture Artist - Contract
Leamington Spa senior hybrid Design
Game Designer
Leamington Spa mid hybrid Design
Producer
Royal Leamington Spa senior hybrid Engineering
Methodology & Sources
How this is computed

Last enriched: 2026-03-20.

Company-data sources: wikidata, news

Hiring aggregates run live against D1; cached at the edge for up to 24 hours. AI-exposure scores derive from O*NET 30.2 occupation taxonomy crossed with the Anthropic Economic Index 2026-03-24 release.

Caveats: salary parser uses 2024 FX snapshot rates; long-tail location strings may bucket as "Unknown"; Location Quotient excludes companies with fewer than 5 indexed roles to keep ratios stable. Salary disclosure under 20% triggers a warning on the salary chart.

Machine-readable equivalents: /companies/playground-games.json · /companies/playground-games.md · api.yubhub.co/stats/company/playground-games