Buckinghamshire Games Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Games' in contract IT jobs within the Buckinghamshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Games
Location Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Gateshead Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	78
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.895 %
Daily rates quoted	0	10
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£358
% change on same period last year	-15.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.67	£17.68
% change on same period last year	+56.49 %
General Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	565	686
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.791 %	0.704 %
Daily rates quoted	184	189
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£329
Average daily rate	£327	£342
% change on same period last year	-4.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	55	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.48	£30.59
Average hourly rate	£22.36	£31.56
% change on same period last year	-29.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.24	£32.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.09	£26.79
% change on same period last year	+4.87 %
Games South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Games
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Games
Daily Rate Trend

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

Games
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Games
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) PHP 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL 1 2 (66.67 %) Linux 1 2 (66.67 %) Apache 1 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) Intel 1 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat 1 2 (66.67 %) VMware 1 2 (66.67 %) Degree 1 2 (66.67 %) Computer Science 1 2 (66.67 %) Time Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia

2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Learning 2 1 (33.33 %) Lingo 2 1 (33.33 %) Electric 2 1 (33.33 %) Flash 2 1 (33.33 %) Adobe 2 1 (33.33 %) Photoshop 2 1 (33.33 %) XML

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) Apache 1 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Flash	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Electric 2 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Systems Administrator 1 2 (66.67 %) Administrator 1 2 (66.67 %) Linux Systems Administrator 1 2 (66.67 %) Linux Administrator 2 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Computer Science 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Linux 1 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) Lingo	Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Intel 1 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat 1 2 (66.67 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Adobe