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Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022

In this article, we will analyze Poland's gaming industry job market in the second quarter of 2022. How many vacancies are published on job portals and company websites? Which companies are the leaders in the number of open vacancies? Which specialists are most in demand?
Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022 - Boost InGame Job

The research was conducted by the platform with all vacancies in the game development InGame Job.

In the second quarter of 2022, Polish companies published 2,346 vacancies (office cooperation format only). For comparison, 2,430 vacancies were published in the first quarter of 2022. So, the labor market of Polish game dev is quite stable.

Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022 - Boost InGame Job

The most in-demand specialists

The most popular categories among recruiters are art/animation, programming/development, game design/level design, QA/testing, producing/management, community management and customer support. 

This makes the Polish market very different from the markets of Ukraine and the CIS, where the most popular specialists category are developers, especially Unity developers.

In Poland, the most needed specialists in game development are C++ developers. Next, come 3D artists and manual QA engineers.

Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022 - Boost InGame Job
Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022 - Boost InGame Job

Apparently, Polish recruiters rarely indicate the level of a specialist unless there is a need to emphasize this (for example, juniors and seniors are indicated more often than middles). The n/a category on the chart generally corresponds to the middle category. 

Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022 - Boost InGame Job
The n/a category on the chart generally corresponds to the middle category. 

Geography of hiring

The leading cities in terms of the number of open vacancies in the gaming industry are Warsaw, Wroclaw, Krakow, Katowice and Gdansk.

Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022 - Boost InGame Job

The most hiring companies in Poland

The Polish gaming companies’ vacancies on InGame Job platform

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Overview of the Game Dev Job Market of Poland. Second Quarter 2022 - Boost InGame Job

Games Industry HR in 2022: war, recession, layoffs and other adventures. – Tanja Loktionova on the DevGAMM stream

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