Social Gaming Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Gaming in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Social Gaming 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Gaming
Rank 503 553 561
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +8
Contract jobs citing Social Gaming 7 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.009% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.063% 0.037% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 11
Average daily rate £400 £248 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.61% -34.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £90 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 11144 13491 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.81% 25.29% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6882 8110 9959
Average daily rate £443 £430 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -18.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 619 691
Average hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Social Gaming
UK

Social Gaming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Social Gaming Jobs Demand Trend

Social Gaming
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Social Gaming Daily Rate Trend

Social Gaming
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Social Gaming across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Social Gaming Daily Rate Histogram

Social Gaming
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Gaming within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +24 6 £400 -1.23%
South East - 1 - -
Social Gaming
UK

Social Gaming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming.

1 16 (100.00%) Games
2 10 (62.50%) Java
3 8 (50.00%) Online Games
4 5 (31.25%) QA
4 5 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (31.25%) Objective-C
4 5 (31.25%) OO
4 5 (31.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (25.00%) WebDriver
5 4 (25.00%) Social Media
5 4 (25.00%) OOP
5 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (25.00%) Ruby
5 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 4 (25.00%) Selenium
6 3 (18.75%) Automated Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Degree
6 3 (18.75%) MVC
6 3 (18.75%) C++
6 3 (18.75%) Scala
6 3 (18.75%) Big Data
6 3 (18.75%) REST
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
7 2 (12.50%) Facebook
7 2 (12.50%) Game Development
7 2 (12.50%) iOS SDK
7 2 (12.50%) iPhone
7 2 (12.50%) Web Development

Social Gaming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) OpenGL
2 2 (12.50%) iOS SDK
2 2 (12.50%) Ajax
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (6.250%) Apache Flex
3 1 (6.250%) Adobe AIR
3 1 (6.250%) Google Maps API
3 1 (6.250%) HTML5
3 1 (6.250%) J2EE
3 1 (6.250%) CSS
3 1 (6.250%) SOAP
3 1 (6.250%) Web Services
3 1 (6.250%) Flash
3 1 (6.250%) Cocoa
3 1 (6.250%) Spring
3 1 (6.250%) CSS3
3 1 (6.250%) OpenGL ES
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
1 1 (6.250%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
1 4 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.250%) Jasmine
2 1 (6.250%) Capybara
2 1 (6.250%) FitNesse
2 1 (6.250%) RSpec
2 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.250%) Xcode
General
1 16 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) iOS Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Flash Developer
4 1 (6.250%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) QA Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Games Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Junior Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) UI Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Flex Developer
4 1 (6.250%) User Experience Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Android Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Flash ActionScript Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Online Games
2 4 (25.00%) Social Media
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (12.50%) iPhone
3 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
3 2 (12.50%) Physics
4 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.250%) Social Network
4 1 (6.250%) RIA
4 1 (6.250%) Mobile Games
4 1 (6.250%) Grid Computing
4 1 (6.250%) Interactive TV
4 1 (6.250%) Economics
4 1 (6.250%) Graphic Design
4 1 (6.250%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.250%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (6.250%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.250%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) OO
1 5 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (25.00%) TDD
2 4 (25.00%) OOP
3 3 (18.75%) Automated Testing
3 3 (18.75%) MVC
4 2 (12.50%) Web Development
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Product Management
4 2 (12.50%) Game Development
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (6.250%) Parallel Programming
5 1 (6.250%) Memory Management
5 1 (6.250%) BDD
5 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
5 1 (6.250%) Time Management
5 1 (6.250%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.250%) Scrum
5 1 (6.250%) Project Management
5 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) Objective-C
3 4 (25.00%) Ruby
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) Scala
5 2 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (6.250%) ActionScript
6 1 (6.250%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe
1 2 (12.50%) Facebook
2 1 (6.250%) Twitter
2 1 (6.250%) Google
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