The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Online 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 Miscellaneous category for the Buckinghamshire 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
Online Gaming
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Online Games 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £295 £275
% change year-on-year
+33.89% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
132 241 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 16.75% 23.72% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 85 68
Average daily rate £350 £338 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +5.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £251 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £475 £444
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £10.48 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Online Games
South East

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Online Games Jobs Demand Trend

Online Games
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Online Games Daily Rate Trend

Online Games
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Online 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 Online Games.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Online 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 Online Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP