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Game Development Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Game Development over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Games Development
Rank 208 210 245
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +35
Contract jobs citing Game Development 2 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.029% 0.026% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.036% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £325 £269 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.93% +14.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £240
% change year-on-year
+10.71% +45.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-23.52% -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Game Development
London

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Game Development across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Game Development Jobs Demand Trend

Game Development
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Game Development across the City of London region.

City of London Game Development Daily Rate Trend

Game Development
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Game Development across the City of London region.

City of London Game Development Hourly Rate Trend

Game Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Game Development 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 Game Development.

1 6 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Lua
3 2 (33.33%) Symfony
3 2 (33.33%) Zend
3 2 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (33.33%) CakePHP
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Google App Engine
3 2 (33.33%) MSBuild
3 2 (33.33%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Underscore.js
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) Backbone.js
4 1 (16.67%) iPhone
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Games
4 1 (16.67%) Animation
4 1 (16.67%) Physics
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Game Development 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 Game Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) Symfony
1 2 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (33.33%) CakePHP
2 1 (16.67%) Underscore.js
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Backbone.js
2 1 (16.67%) Cocoon
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Google App Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (33.33%) MSBuild
General
1 6 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Games Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) iPhone
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Games
2 1 (16.67%) Animation
2 1 (16.67%) Physics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
1 2 (33.33%) OO
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Lua
2 2 (33.33%) C
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Zend
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