Games Contracts in Hertfordshire

Gaming
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 51 68
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Games 13 23 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.56% 2.84% 0.64%
As % of the General category 2.50% 5.07% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 3
10th Percentile - £573 £248
25th Percentile £363 £585 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £713 £500
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +42.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £423 £927 -
90th Percentile £606 £1,050 -
East of England median daily rate £375 £601 £500
% change year-on-year -37.55% +20.10% +17.65%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 521 454 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 62.32% 55.98% 55.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 229 229
10th Percentile £200 £228 £179
25th Percentile £330 £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £613
90th Percentile £700 £807 £713
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 94 57
10th Percentile - £41.80 £17.10
25th Percentile £38.12 £53.56 £39.50
Median hourly rate £46.78 £60.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +22.45% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £21.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +81.52% +44.83% -3.33%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Games in Hertfordshire

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Games in Hertfordshire

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in Hertfordshire

Games
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Games in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Games in Hertfordshire

Games
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Watford +2 13 £375 -46.43% 10
Games
East of England

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Marketing
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Lead
2 7 (53.85%) Test Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) Visualforce
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (46.15%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (46.15%) Test Management
2 6 (46.15%) Test Planning
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Apex Code
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) SAP