Games Contracts in Brighton
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Brighton region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 24 37 24
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -13
Contract jobs citing Games 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 2.098% 0.775% 0.769%
As % of the General category 5.882% 4.348% 1.887%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £225 £200 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
- +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +11.11%
All of the General Category
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 51 46 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 35.66% 17.83% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 39
Average daily rate £400 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £300 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £23.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Games
East Sussex

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Brighton Games Jobs Demand Trend

Games
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Games across the Brighton region.

Brighton Games Daily Rate Trend

Games
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Brighton region.

Brighton Games Hourly Rate Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Games also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Games.

1 4 (50.00%) C++
1 4 (50.00%) Game Development
2 3 (37.50%) QA
3 2 (25.00%) Online Games
3 2 (25.00%) Social Media
3 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Games
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
4 1 (12.50%) Music
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) Finance

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Games also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) J2EE
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Ajax
1 1 (12.50%) Grails
1 1 (12.50%) jQuery
1 1 (12.50%) Apache CXF
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) FitNesse
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
2 1 (12.50%) JProfiler
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Checkstyle
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Music
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Programmer
1 4 (50.00%) Games Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (25.00%) Online Games
1 2 (25.00%) Social Media
2 1 (12.50%) Social Gaming
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Game Development
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
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