The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games over the 3 months to 23 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 Leeds 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 68 59 46
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -13
Contract jobs citing Games 6 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.817% 1.022% 1.402%
As % of the General category 3.141% 3.147% 3.930%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
Average daily rate £395 £338 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.03% +32.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £379 £170 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £350 £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
- +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +44.44%
All of the General Category
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
191 286 229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 26.02% 32.46% 35.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 192 104
Average daily rate £315 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £263 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 13
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.25 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -12.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.35 £10.50 £12.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.00 £50.60 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Games
West Yorkshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Games Hourly Rate Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 11 (55.00%) MS Office
2 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Service Management
2 7 (35.00%) Change Management
2 7 (35.00%) Degree
3 5 (25.00%) Retail
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) Perl
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) J2EE
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle
4 4 (20.00%) DB2
4 4 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (20.00%) IIS
4 4 (20.00%) UNIX
4 4 (20.00%) Windows
4 4 (20.00%) AIX
4 4 (20.00%) Solaris
4 4 (20.00%) JDBC
4 4 (20.00%) Tomcat
4 4 (20.00%) MQSeries
4 4 (20.00%) IBM
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) FTP
4 4 (20.00%) HTTP
4 4 (20.00%) Middleware
4 4 (20.00%) IBM HTTP Server
4 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (20.00%) J2EE
1 4 (20.00%) JDBC
1 4 (20.00%) Middleware
1 4 (20.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (20.00%) IIS
1 4 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (20.00%) MQSeries
1 4 (20.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (15.00%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (55.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) FTP
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
2 3 (15.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) DB2
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 5 (25.00%) Retail
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Online Betting
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.000%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Release Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Operations Support Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
7 1 (5.000%) Agile Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Online Games
2 3 (15.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.000%) Online Gambling
3 1 (5.000%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) UNIX
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) AIX
2 4 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
1 7 (35.00%) Service Management
1 7 (35.00%) Change Management
2 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (15.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (15.00%) Content Management
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) UML
4 2 (10.00%) ETL
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) RDF
4 2 (10.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (5.000%) High Availability
5 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Requirements Management
5 1 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Perl
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Bash shell
3 3 (15.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
1 4 (20.00%) IBM
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Talend