The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Online Games over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Miscellaneous 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Gaming
Rank 321 352 397
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +45
Contract jobs citing Online Games 63 58 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.276% 0.218% 0.146%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.834% 0.683% 0.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 31 32
Average daily rate £400 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £250 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+19.23% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7553 8494 11818
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.12% 31.95% 37.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5226 5808 8072
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 192 165
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +4.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £52.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Online Games
England

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Online Games Jobs Demand Trend

Online Games
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Online Games Daily Rate Trend

Online Games
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Online Games across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Online Games Daily Rate Histogram

Online Games
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Online Games Hourly Rate Trend

Online Games
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hammersmith +3 5 £401 +26.37%
Harrow 0 2 - -
City of London -4 2 £400 -5.88% 3
Ealing - - - -
Chiswick - - - - 5
Online Games
England

Online Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Online 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 Online Games.

1 104 (100.00%) Games
2 29 (27.88%) CSS
3 28 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 25 (24.04%) Java
5 24 (23.08%) TDD
6 22 (21.15%) HTML5
6 22 (21.15%) CSS3
7 20 (19.23%) HTML
7 20 (19.23%) Linux
8 19 (18.27%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (17.31%) Web Services
10 15 (14.42%) MySQL
10 15 (14.42%) Apple iOS
11 14 (13.46%) J2EE
11 14 (13.46%) OO
12 13 (12.50%) Scrum
12 13 (12.50%) jQuery
12 13 (12.50%) MVC
13 12 (11.54%) Apache
13 12 (11.54%) Ajax
13 12 (11.54%) Finance
13 12 (11.54%) Spring
13 12 (11.54%) Git (software)
14 11 (10.58%) Android
14 11 (10.58%) Agile Software Development
14 11 (10.58%) Ruby
14 11 (10.58%) QA
14 11 (10.58%) Kanban
14 11 (10.58%) Windows
15 10 (9.615%) Degree

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Online 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 Online Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (27.88%) CSS
2 22 (21.15%) HTML5
2 22 (21.15%) CSS3
3 20 (19.23%) HTML
4 18 (17.31%) Web Services
5 14 (13.46%) J2EE
6 13 (12.50%) jQuery
7 12 (11.54%) Ajax
7 12 (11.54%) Spring
8 10 (9.615%) RESTful
9 9 (8.654%) Mustache
9 9 (8.654%) Ruby on Rails
9 9 (8.654%) Hibernate
10 8 (7.692%) Node.js
11 6 (5.769%) XML
12 5 (4.808%) Spring MVC
12 5 (4.808%) JSP
12 5 (4.808%) .NET
12 5 (4.808%) JMS
13 4 (3.846%) REST
Application Platforms
1 12 (11.54%) Apache
2 9 (8.654%) nginx
3 5 (4.808%) GlassFish
4 3 (2.885%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.885%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (2.885%) IIS
4 3 (2.885%) MS Exchange
4 3 (2.885%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.885%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.923%) Windows Azure
5 2 (1.923%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.962%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.962%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.808%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (4.808%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.846%) MS Office
3 2 (1.923%) Acrobat
3 2 (1.923%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.923%) MS Project
3 2 (1.923%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.962%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.769%) TCP/IP
1 6 (5.769%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.885%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (2.885%) DNS
2 3 (2.885%) LDAP
3 2 (1.923%) Internet
3 2 (1.923%) NetScreen
3 2 (1.923%) Firewall
3 2 (1.923%) HTTP
3 2 (1.923%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (1.923%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.923%) Network Security
3 2 (1.923%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.962%) NAS
4 1 (0.962%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.962%) NFC
4 1 (0.962%) VoIP
4 1 (0.962%) VPN
4 1 (0.962%) Wireless
4 1 (0.962%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.42%) MySQL
2 6 (5.769%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.808%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (4.808%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.923%) DB2
4 2 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.962%) Big Data
5 1 (0.962%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.962%) OLAP
5 1 (0.962%) OLTP
5 1 (0.962%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.962%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (0.962%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.962%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Git (software)
2 9 (8.654%) Subversion
3 6 (5.769%) JIRA
4 5 (4.808%) EasyMock
4 5 (4.808%) Mockito
4 5 (4.808%) Maven
4 5 (4.808%) JUnit
4 5 (4.808%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.846%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.885%) Axure RP
6 3 (2.885%) Jasmine
6 3 (2.885%) Selenium
7 2 (1.923%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.923%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.923%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.923%) JSUnit
7 2 (1.923%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.923%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.962%) RSpec
8 1 (0.962%) Capybara
General
1 104 (100.00%) Games
2 12 (11.54%) Finance
3 8 (7.692%) Marketing
4 2 (1.923%) Retail
5 1 (0.962%) Online Betting
5 1 (0.962%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.962%) Advertising
5 1 (0.962%) Publishing
5 1 (0.962%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 46 (44.23%) Developer
2 14 (13.46%) Java Developer
3 12 (11.54%) Analyst
3 12 (11.54%) Web Developer
4 9 (8.654%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 8 (7.692%) Designer
6 7 (6.731%) Security Analyst
7 6 (5.769%) Programmer
7 6 (5.769%) Senior Designer
8 5 (4.808%) Front-End Developer
8 5 (4.808%) Mobile Developer
8 5 (4.808%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (4.808%) Java Programmer
8 5 (4.808%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.846%) Data Warehouse Analyst
10 3 (2.885%) iOS Developer
10 3 (2.885%) Visual Designer
10 3 (2.885%) Senior Visual Designer
10 3 (2.885%) Android Developer
10 3 (2.885%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.654%) Mobile App
1 9 (8.654%) Computer Science
1 9 (8.654%) W3C
2 7 (6.731%) Social Gaming
3 4 (3.846%) Blackberry
3 4 (3.846%) Social Media
3 4 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.885%) Digital Media
4 3 (2.885%) Mobile Games
4 3 (2.885%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.923%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.923%) Grid Computing
5 2 (1.923%) iPad
5 2 (1.923%) iPhone
5 2 (1.923%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.962%) Xserve
6 1 (0.962%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.962%) PaaS
6 1 (0.962%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (0.962%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.23%) Linux
2 15 (14.42%) Apple iOS
3 11 (10.58%) Android
3 11 (10.58%) Windows
4 8 (7.692%) UNIX
5 5 (4.808%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.885%) CentOS
6 3 (2.885%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.885%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.923%) Windows 2000
7 2 (1.923%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.962%) Solaris
8 1 (0.962%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.08%) TDD
2 19 (18.27%) Continuous Integration
3 14 (13.46%) OO
4 13 (12.50%) Scrum
4 13 (12.50%) MVC
5 11 (10.58%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (10.58%) Kanban
6 10 (9.615%) Web Development
7 9 (8.654%) BDD
8 7 (6.731%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (6.731%) E-Commerce
9 6 (5.769%) Project Management
9 6 (5.769%) ITIL
9 6 (5.769%) User Stories
10 5 (4.808%) Usability Testing
10 5 (4.808%) OOP
11 4 (3.846%) Service Management
11 4 (3.846%) Data Modelling
11 4 (3.846%) Workflow
11 4 (3.846%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.92%) JavaScript
2 25 (24.04%) Java
3 11 (10.58%) Ruby
4 9 (8.654%) SQL
5 8 (7.692%) Python
6 6 (5.769%) Perl
7 5 (4.808%) C#
7 5 (4.808%) C++
7 5 (4.808%) ActionScript
8 4 (3.846%) PHP
8 4 (3.846%) Scala
9 3 (2.885%) AWK
9 3 (2.885%) Jython
10 2 (1.923%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.923%) Lua
11 1 (0.962%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.962%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (9.615%) Degree
2 7 (6.731%) CISSP
3 3 (2.885%) MCSE
3 3 (2.885%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.923%) CCNP
4 2 (1.923%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.923%) PMP
4 2 (1.923%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.923%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.962%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) QA
2 7 (6.731%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.769%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.654%) Varnish
2 4 (3.846%) NFS
2 4 (3.846%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.846%) Xen
2 4 (3.846%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.923%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.962%) vSphere
4 1 (0.962%) vCloud
4 1 (0.962%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (5.769%) Puppet
2 4 (3.846%) SCCM
3 3 (2.885%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 3 (2.885%) Splunk
3 3 (2.885%) Cobbler
3 3 (2.885%) SCOM
3 3 (2.885%) Nagios
4 1 (0.962%) WSUS
4 1 (0.962%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (8.654%) Oracle
2 8 (7.692%) Adobe
3 7 (6.731%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.769%) Google
5 5 (4.808%) Infoblox
5 5 (4.808%) Facebook
6 4 (3.846%) NetApp
6 4 (3.846%) Veritas
7 3 (2.885%) Dell
8 2 (1.923%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.923%) Citrix
8 2 (1.923%) Juniper
8 2 (1.923%) Cisco
8 2 (1.923%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.923%) VMware
8 2 (1.923%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.923%) Twitter
9 1 (0.962%) Tufin
9 1 (0.962%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.962%) Brocade
London
Senior Frontend Developers (HTML 5 / Javascript) required for one of the highest award winning media agencies in the UK, based in Central London... As Front End Web Developer...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
Our client, an online gaming company, is currently recruiting for an IOS Developer to join their team in West London, initially on a 3 month contract... Key Responsibilities...
Experis IT
Posted: 13 June 2013
West London
Our client, an online gaming client, is currently recruiting for a Product Manager/ Product Owner to join their team in West London, initially on a 3 month contract.....
Experis IT
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
The core OSs supported by the team are RedHat, CentOS and VMWare. in order to be successful the Linux Systems Administrator will need to have good knowledge of...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
West London
Our client, an online gaming client, is currently recruiting for a Product Manager/ Product Owner to join their team in West London, initially on a 3 month contract.....
Experis IT
Posted: 15 June 2013
West London
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £385 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
Experis IT
Rate: £325 - £385 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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