Games Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 General category for the Hertfordshire 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
Gaming
Rank 60 60 54
Rank change year-on-year
0 -6
Contract jobs citing Games 3 10 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.471% 1.024% 1.142%
As % of the General category 0.993% 2.123% 2.179%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
Average daily rate £325 £350 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -8.19%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
-6.92% +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +44.44%
All of the General Category
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 302 471 459
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 47.41% 48.21% 52.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 199 219
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 33
Average hourly rate £17.50 £35.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +118.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Games
East of England

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Games Jobs Demand Trend

Games
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Games Daily Rate Trend

Games
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Games Hourly Rate Trend

Games
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Hertfordshire 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
Cheshunt - 2 £325 -
Watford 0 1 - -
Games
East of England

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 28 (70.00%) Retail
2 27 (67.50%) Finance
2 27 (67.50%) E-Commerce
3 21 (52.50%) Java
4 17 (42.50%) Project Management
4 17 (42.50%) Time Management
5 16 (40.00%) WebSphere
5 16 (40.00%) J2EE
5 16 (40.00%) IBM
6 12 (30.00%) SQL
6 12 (30.00%) HTML
7 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
7 11 (27.50%) Waterfall
7 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (27.50%) Change Control
8 10 (25.00%) JSTL
8 10 (25.00%) JSP
8 10 (25.00%) XHTML
9 9 (22.50%) Ruby
9 9 (22.50%) Web Development
9 9 (22.50%) Ruby on Rails
10 6 (15.00%) Change Management
10 6 (15.00%) CSS
11 5 (12.50%) JDBC
11 5 (12.50%) MQSeries
11 5 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
11 5 (12.50%) JMS
11 5 (12.50%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
11 5 (12.50%) Eclipse
11 5 (12.50%) RDBMS

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 16 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 16 (40.00%) J2EE
2 12 (30.00%) HTML
3 10 (25.00%) JSTL
3 10 (25.00%) JSP
3 10 (25.00%) XHTML
4 9 (22.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (15.00%) CSS
6 5 (12.50%) JDBC
6 5 (12.50%) JMS
6 5 (12.50%) Servlets
6 5 (12.50%) Struts
6 5 (12.50%) XML
6 5 (12.50%) XSLT
6 5 (12.50%) Ajax
6 5 (12.50%) XMLBeans
6 5 (12.50%) EJB
6 5 (12.50%) Semantic HTML
7 1 (2.500%) jQuery
7 1 (2.500%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) MQSeries
1 5 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.500%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.500%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 5 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 5 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 5 (12.50%) Ant
1 5 (12.50%) JUnit
1 5 (12.50%) Log4j
1 5 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 28 (70.00%) Retail
2 27 (67.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.500%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Project Manager
2 11 (27.50%) E-Commerce Manager
2 11 (27.50%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 9 (22.50%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Business Analyst
4 6 (15.00%) Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 5 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (2.500%) QA Test Manager
6 1 (2.500%) Designer
6 1 (2.500%) Web Programmer
6 1 (2.500%) Junior Developer
6 1 (2.500%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (2.500%) Tester
6 1 (2.500%) Junior
6 1 (2.500%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.500%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) W3C
1 5 (12.50%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.500%) Online Games
2 1 (2.500%) Mathematics
2 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.500%) Graphic Design
2 1 (2.500%) FMCG
2 1 (2.500%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) UNIX
1 5 (12.50%) HPUX
1 5 (12.50%) Solaris
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.500%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) E-Commerce
2 17 (42.50%) Project Management
2 17 (42.50%) Time Management
3 11 (27.50%) Waterfall
3 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (27.50%) Change Control
4 9 (22.50%) Web Development
5 6 (15.00%) Change Management
6 5 (12.50%) UML
6 5 (12.50%) OO
6 5 (12.50%) RAD
6 5 (12.50%) Content Management
7 1 (2.500%) Performance Testing
7 1 (2.500%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.500%) Test Strategy
7 1 (2.500%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.500%) Software Testing
7 1 (2.500%) Workflow
7 1 (2.500%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) Java
2 12 (30.00%) SQL
3 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (22.50%) Ruby
5 5 (12.50%) Perl
5 5 (12.50%) XPath
5 5 (12.50%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.500%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.500%) Degree
1 1 (2.500%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.000%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) IBM
2 5 (12.50%) ATG
2 5 (12.50%) Interwoven
2 5 (12.50%) Blue Martini
2 5 (12.50%) Elastic Path
3 1 (2.500%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.500%) Adobe
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