The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games 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 Online Games over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Gaming
Rank 201 209 229
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +20
Contract jobs citing Online Games 2 9 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.114% 0.163%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.099% 0.350% 0.407%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 7
Average daily rate £400 £425 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +18.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £310 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £520 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £295 £300
% change year-on-year
+33.89% -1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2018 2574 3936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.64% 32.73% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1496 1987 3043
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £298 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 67 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.38 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Online Games
London

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Online Games Daily Rate Trend

Online Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 10 (100.00%) Games
2 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (30.00%) User Stories
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (20.00%) Product Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Android
4 2 (20.00%) Web Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) QA
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile Games
4 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (20.00%) J2ME
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) PMP
4 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (10.00%) UNIX
5 1 (10.00%) Linux

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 2 (20.00%) J2ME
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Java SE
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) CSS3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 10 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile Games
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (10.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (30.00%) Scrum
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (30.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (30.00%) User Stories
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Product Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Web Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Web Development
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Jython
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio