Game Development Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 374 386 424
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +38
Contract jobs citing Game Development 11 20 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.051% 0.075% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.104% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 8
Average daily rate £260 £325 £198
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +64.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £150 £139
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £255
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Game Development
England

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Game Development Jobs Demand Trend

Game Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Game Development Daily Rate Trend

Game Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Game Development Hourly Rate Trend

Game Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Game Development within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +13 3 £325 +20.93%
Game Development
England

Game Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 28 (100.00%) Games
2 18 (64.29%) C++
3 14 (50.00%) C#
4 12 (42.86%) Visual Studio
4 12 (42.86%) Lua
4 12 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (42.86%) MSBuild
5 10 (35.71%) Google
6 9 (32.14%) Windows Azure
6 9 (32.14%) Google App Engine
7 7 (25.00%) SQL
8 5 (17.86%) Sony
8 5 (17.86%) Objective-C
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
9 4 (14.29%) Mobile Games
9 4 (14.29%) Marketing
10 3 (10.71%) Online Games
10 3 (10.71%) MVC
10 3 (10.71%) OO
10 3 (10.71%) C
10 3 (10.71%) iPhone
11 2 (7.143%) Java
11 2 (7.143%) MySQL
11 2 (7.143%) E-Commerce
11 2 (7.143%) Social Gaming
11 2 (7.143%) Apple iOS
11 2 (7.143%) PHP
11 2 (7.143%) Android
11 2 (7.143%) Symfony

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 2 (7.143%) Symfony
1 2 (7.143%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (7.143%) CakePHP
2 1 (3.571%) Google Maps API
2 1 (3.571%) HTML5
2 1 (3.571%) Node.js
2 1 (3.571%) iOS SDK
2 1 (3.571%) REST
2 1 (3.571%) Backbone.js
2 1 (3.571%) OpenGL ES
2 1 (3.571%) cocos2d
2 1 (3.571%) Underscore.js
2 1 (3.571%) OpenGL
2 1 (3.571%) Cocoon
2 1 (3.571%) Ajax
2 1 (3.571%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 9 (32.14%) Windows Azure
1 9 (32.14%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.571%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Visual Studio
1 12 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
1 12 (42.86%) MSBuild
2 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
General
1 28 (100.00%) Games
2 4 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Build Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Programmer
4 5 (17.86%) Games Developer
4 5 (17.86%) C++ Programmer
5 2 (7.143%) iOS Developer
5 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.571%) PHP Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.571%) C++ Developer
6 1 (3.571%) C++ Games Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Android Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Build Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Senior Programmer
6 1 (3.571%) Mobile Games Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (14.29%) Mobile Games
3 3 (10.71%) Online Games
3 3 (10.71%) iPhone
4 2 (7.143%) Social Gaming
5 1 (3.571%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (3.571%) Social Media
5 1 (3.571%) Animation
5 1 (3.571%) Physics
5 1 (3.571%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) Android
1 2 (7.143%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.71%) MVC
1 3 (10.71%) OO
2 2 (7.143%) E-Commerce
3 1 (3.571%) OOP
3 1 (3.571%) Multithreading
3 1 (3.571%) Time Management
3 1 (3.571%) Memory Management
3 1 (3.571%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) C++
2 14 (50.00%) C#
3 12 (42.86%) Lua
4 7 (25.00%) SQL
5 5 (17.86%) Objective-C
6 3 (10.71%) C
7 2 (7.143%) Java
7 2 (7.143%) PHP
8 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) Degree
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Sony
3 2 (7.143%) Zend
4 1 (3.571%) Facebook
4 1 (3.571%) Twitter
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