Games Contracts in Edinburgh
 
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 Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 General category for the Edinburgh 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
Gaming
Rank 50 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing Games 7 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.840% 0.184% -
As % of the General category 1.754% 0.266% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £278 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+53.15% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
-6.92% +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +44.44%
Search 1 Games jobs in Edinburgh
All of the General Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 399 751 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 47.90% 69.09% 70.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 381 478
Average daily rate £425 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £265 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £522 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 7
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.27 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.35% -27.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £7.50 £10.00 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £32.00 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Games
Scotland

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Games Hourly Rate Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Retail
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Retail Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
2 3 (42.86%) WPF
2 3 (42.86%) Multithreading
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) Flash
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (14.29%) Game Development
4 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (14.29%) Android
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) WPF
2 1 (14.29%) Flash
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Retail
1 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Retail Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) C# Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Agile C# Developer
2 3 (42.86%) WPF Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C++/Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Games Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Open Source
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (42.86%) Multithreading
2 1 (14.29%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Web Development
2 1 (14.29%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
3D Software Engineer - Edinburgh - 3 months +
Edinburgh & Lothians
3d software engineer java developer c#.net flash programmer actionscript as3 as2 c++ ios objective-c iphone java c#.net c# flash actionscript 3d java c++ c#.net...
G2 Recruitment Solutions Ltd.
Rate: Market rate paid weekly
Posted: 20 May 2013
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