Mobile Games Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Games in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mobile 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 England 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
Mobile Game
Rank 503 549 565
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +16
Contract jobs citing Mobile Games 10 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.024% 0.019% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.089% 0.074% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £306 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £350 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-13.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
Search 5 Mobile Games jobs in England
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 11208 13487 16440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.96% 25.29% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6896 8084 9903
Average daily rate £438 £437 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -16.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £607 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 617 685
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.60 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Mobile Games
UK

Mobile Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Mobile Games Jobs Demand Trend

Mobile Games
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Mobile Games Daily Rate Trend

Mobile Games
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mobile Games across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Mobile Games Daily Rate Histogram

Mobile Games
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Mobile Games Hourly Rate Trend

Mobile Games
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Games within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +33 5 £400 +14.28%
South East - 5 £303 -
Mobile Games
UK

Mobile Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Mobile 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 Mobile Games.

1 25 (100.00%) Games
2 8 (32.00%) Game Development
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) C#
4 6 (24.00%) CSS
5 5 (20.00%) Objective-C
5 5 (20.00%) Android
5 5 (20.00%) iPhone
5 5 (20.00%) Apple iOS
6 4 (16.00%) HTML5
6 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
6 4 (16.00%) jQuery
6 4 (16.00%) Online Games
6 4 (16.00%) Java
7 3 (12.00%) PHP
7 3 (12.00%) Physics
7 3 (12.00%) CSS3
7 3 (12.00%) Xcode
8 2 (8.000%) Degree
8 2 (8.000%) Social Media
8 2 (8.000%) iPad
8 2 (8.000%) ActionScript 3.0
8 2 (8.000%) Analytics
8 2 (8.000%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
8 2 (8.000%) Marketing
8 2 (8.000%) Web Development
8 2 (8.000%) Cocoa
8 2 (8.000%) ActionScript

Mobile Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Mobile 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 Mobile Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (24.00%) CSS
2 4 (16.00%) HTML5
2 4 (16.00%) jQuery
3 3 (12.00%) CSS3
4 2 (8.000%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (8.000%) Cocoa
4 2 (8.000%) HTML
4 2 (8.000%) Flash
4 2 (8.000%) J2ME
5 1 (4.000%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.000%) DOM
5 1 (4.000%) Java SE
5 1 (4.000%) Apache Flex
5 1 (4.000%) Spring
5 1 (4.000%) Ajax
5 1 (4.000%) Robotlegs
5 1 (4.000%) Backbone.js
5 1 (4.000%) cocos2d
5 1 (4.000%) iOS SDK
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Xcode
2 1 (4.000%) Git (software)
2 1 (4.000%) Flash Builder
2 1 (4.000%) JIRA
General
1 25 (100.00%) Games
2 2 (8.000%) Marketing
3 1 (4.000%) Electronics
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.000%) Finance
3 1 (4.000%) Music
3 1 (4.000%) Banking
3 1 (4.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Games Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Mobile Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Programmer
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Programmer
5 3 (12.00%) iOS Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Senior iOS Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Senior Games Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Junior
7 1 (4.000%) Mobile Games Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Junior Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Flash Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Product Manager
7 1 (4.000%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) iPhone
2 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.00%) Online Games
3 3 (12.00%) Physics
4 2 (8.000%) Social Media
4 2 (8.000%) iPad
4 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.000%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.000%) NHS
5 1 (4.000%) FMCG
5 1 (4.000%) IPTV
5 1 (4.000%) Digital Media
5 1 (4.000%) Social Gaming
5 1 (4.000%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Android
1 5 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.000%) UNIX
2 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Game Development
2 2 (8.000%) Analytics
2 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (8.000%) Web Development
3 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
3 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.000%) Project Management
3 1 (4.000%) OOP
3 1 (4.000%) MVC
3 1 (4.000%) Validation
3 1 (4.000%) Unit Testing
3 1 (4.000%) Product Management
3 1 (4.000%) Automated Testing
3 1 (4.000%) Software Testing
3 1 (4.000%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (24.00%) C#
3 5 (20.00%) Objective-C
4 4 (16.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) PHP
6 2 (8.000%) ActionScript 3.0
6 2 (8.000%) ActionScript
6 2 (8.000%) C++
7 1 (4.000%) C
7 1 (4.000%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) QA
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