The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Online Games over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Guildford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Gaming
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Online Games 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.525% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+19.23% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
38 15 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 19.19% 12.10% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 14
Average daily rate £373 £235 £171
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+58.51% +37.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £108
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £300 £337
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
Average hourly rate £25.88 £31.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.85% +110.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.50 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.25 £31.50 £120.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Online Games
Surrey

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Online Games Jobs Demand Trend

Online Games
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Games
1 8 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 8 (100.00%) Release Management
1 8 (100.00%) SCOM
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 6 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) Ruby
3 4 (50.00%) Game Development
4 1 (12.50%) SCCM

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 8 (100.00%) MS Excel
General
1 8 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Release Management
2 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) SCOM
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
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Posted: 7 June 2013