Essex Games Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Games' in contract IT jobs within the Essex region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Brentford Brighton Bristol Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Glamorgan Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	64
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£355
% change on same period last year	-14.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.09	£17.68
% change on same period last year	+53.20 %
General Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	288	330
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.405 %	0.333 %
Daily rates quoted	100	117
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£345
Average daily rate	£368	£371
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.37	£27.57
Average hourly rate	£27.09	£28.84
% change on same period last year	-6.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.81	£30.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Games East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (100.00 %) PHP 1 3 (100.00 %) LAMP 2 2 (66.67 %) Degree 2 2 (66.67 %) PHP5 2 2 (66.67 %) MySQL 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (100.00 %) LAMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Systems Administrator 1 2 (66.67 %) Administrator 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Linux	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) PHP 2 2 (66.67 %) PHP5 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Degree