Remote jobs in gaming continue to grow in 2022

Hitmarker, the leading jobs platform in gaming, has published an infographic providing insights into remote jobs in the industry.

The trend: The infographic takes data from Hitmarker from January 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022.

Remote work came to real prominence when lockdowns were placed in many countries around the world.
Companies looked to continue operations as seamlessly as possible despite the physical restrictions that spawned out of the global health situation, leading to the rise of remote working.
While lockdowns largely ended in 2021, this phenomenon has proven to be more beneficial for many workers — with commute times and costs being eliminated and the convenience of working from anywhere proving desirable, for example — and, as such, many wish to remain working remotely.
In gaming specifically, the data appears to point towards a rising interest from companies when it comes to employing remote workers, perhaps meeting the demand from this new wave of remote workers.

Remotely interesting: The trend is still growing strong.

The average number of remote jobs that are advertised on Hitmarker per month has risen from 351 in 2021 to 458 in 2022 so far, making for a 30% increase.
Perhaps more interestingly, the proportion of all gaming jobs that are remote has increased too. 10.95% of jobs in 2021 were remote, whereas 18.9% of listings are remote in 2022 so far. This is a 73% proportional increase year-on-year.
July has been the most fruitful month for remote jobs in 2022 thus far, making up 21.62% of all jobs with 775 listings. This may well show that this trend is not going anywhere anytime soon — in fact, it's still growing. Incidentally, this was also the case during the same period in 2021.