The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Game Development over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Liverpool 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Games Development
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Game Development 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.027% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.030% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £240
% change year-on-year
- +45.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +183.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
99 125 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 66.89% 67.20% 65.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 73 60
Average daily rate £350 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.66% -3.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £263 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £531
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Game Development
Merseyside

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Game Development across the Liverpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Liverpool Game Development Jobs Demand Trend

Game Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing Game Development 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 Game Development.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Games
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (75.00%) 3D Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) NUnit
2 3 (75.00%) MCTS
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) MCP
2 3 (75.00%) MCAD
2 3 (75.00%) MCSD
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (75.00%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Games
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) CSS

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing Game Development 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 Game Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) Unity DI Container
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) NUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Games Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C++ Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C++/C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Gameplay Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C++ Games Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCP
1 3 (75.00%) MCAD
1 3 (75.00%) MCSD
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCTS