Manchester Games Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Games' in contract IT jobs within the Manchester region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Games over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Games
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London Coventry Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Leatherhead Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Pontypridd Rhondda Cynon Taff Scotland South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Tamworth Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands Wimbledon	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	65
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.070 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£304
% change on same period last year	+31.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.67	£21.46
% change on same period last year	+14.94 %
General Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	500	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.659 %	0.391 %
Daily rates quoted	113	94
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£346
Average daily rate	£371	£368
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.55	£19.45
Average hourly rate	£25.45	£21.90
% change on same period last year	+16.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.36	£24.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.46	£26.98
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Games North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Games
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (66.67 %) Flash 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 2 1 (33.33 %) Interactive Media 2 1 (33.33 %) Flash Games 2 1 (33.33 %) Online Games 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) ActionScript 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP

2 1 (33.33 %) Struts 2 1 (33.33 %) UML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 1 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 1 1 (33.33 %) JSP 1 1 (33.33 %) Struts	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Flash 2 1 (33.33 %) JUnit	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Interactive Media 1 1 (33.33 %) Flash Games 1 1 (33.33 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Flash Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Flash Designer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) ActionScript	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle